Implementation Science to Advance HIV Health Equity

Overview

This program encourages research to inform and enhance the uptake, effectiveness, and implementation of evidence-based interventions currently available in the HIV care continuum, with a particular focus on addressing HIV health inequities, both in the U.S. and globally. Studies, at a minimum, will promote uptake and access to evidence-based interventions for HIV among populations experiencing health disparities. Research proposals should reflect meaningful partnership between researchers and communities, people with lived expertise, implementing partners, and/or key policy decision-makers.

Areas of Emphasis

Areas of programmatic interest include, but are not limited to:

• The implementation of individual and/or combination evidence-based interventions designed to maximize HIV testing, linkage to HIV care, earlier treatment initiation, adherence, and engagement HIV testing.
• Studies that develop, test, and/or evaluate strategies that address social and structural determinants of HIV health inequities.
• Research that aims to understand and/or address processes and mechanisms at multiple levels that lead to HIV health inequities.
• Strategies to enhance scale-up and/or sustainment of evidence-based interventions for HIV prevention, treatment, and retention.
• Skillful use of pragmatic and/or adaptive study designs to answer questions relevant to real-world implementation of HIV interventions and strategies.
• Studies that advance understanding of the mechanisms by which interventions or implementation strategies may work in some contexts but not others.

Contact

Suzanne Pollard, PhD
Rockville, MD 20852
suzy.pollard@nih.gov
(301) 761-6869