In this Episode:
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been around since the 1980s and over 36 million people have died of AIDS. Today over 37 million people are living with HIV, globally. With breakthroughs in prevention, treatment and care coordination in recent years, there are still barriers to achieving optimal HIV care outcomes. In the U.S., these barriers are intersecting epidemics such as mental health and substance abuse, unstable housing and incarceration. This episode of Making Public Health Personal explores the unique challenges and stigma associated with HIV in the U.S., and how far medical interventions and public programs have come to improve the quality of life for people living with HIV. We also explore how lessons learned from the HIV pandemic can inform our response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemics of the future.
Host Laura Meoli-Ferrigon from the SPH Office of Online Learning is joined by Dr. Denis Nash, Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at CUNY SPH. He is also the Executive Director of CUNY’s Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health. Dr. Nash has over 20 years of experience in infectious disease epidemiology on a national and global scale. He has published over 250 scientific articles and his research is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this episode, we will learn about his research projects which focus on improving the outcomes of people living with HIV in the Ryan White Program, an HIV care coordination intervention for people at very high risk of bad HIV care outcomes. We also discuss his new research on HIV injectables and the CHASING COVID Cohort study, to find similarities that can help us better respond to future pandemics.
Episode Links:
CUNY’s Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health: http://cunyisph.org
The CHASING COVID Cohort Study https://cunyisph.org/chasing-covid/
The CHORDS Study in NYC’s Ryan White Program:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30248136/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30299346/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29788080/
The PROMISE Study in NYC’s Ryan White Program: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32718922/
The APPLI Study of Long Acting Injectable ART in the Ryan White Program
https://cunyisph.org/cuny-sph-and-the-nyc-health-department-to-study-long-acting-antiretroviral-therapy-for-hiv/
Ryan White services in NYC: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/aids-hiv-care-treatment-and-housing.page
Contact & find out more about Denis Nash: https://sph.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/denis-nash/
Dr. Nash’s recent media appearances: https://www.clippings.me/denisnash
Download a transcript of this episode here. 

Ver todos los episodios