OUR RESEARCH
Our team has conducted site visits with 18 clinics, interviews with 100+ PrEP providers, and analyzed 20+ program models across the country.
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Translational Frameworks
We developed a practice-focused framework for understanding the “layered nature” of HIV implementation strategies — emphasizing different implementation “targets” (organization, providers, recipients), “outcomes” (attitudes, capacity, behavior), “strategies” (education and training, resources, incentives), and “actors” (policy-makers, clinic leadership). This framework is designed to help front-line implementers choose strategies that will best achieve their short- and long-term goals.
We created a taxonomy of 50 PrEP implementation strategies employed by HIV prevention programs across the country — based on the three layers described above. We detail 8 organization-focused strategies, 8 provider-focused strategies, and 34 recipient-focused strategies that clinics can adapt to their particular setting. Check out our Real World Strategies page for more examples of implementation strategies used by clinics we’ve interviewed.
We adapted the Stages of Implementation Completion (SIC) tool to create a PrEP Planning Roadmap for use by agencies developing or expanding PrEP Programs. This tool moves through the eight stages of implementation — from engagement (initial program development) to sustainment (delivery of PrEP fully embedded in clinic processes) — and provides specific activity checklists linked to each stage.
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Academic Papers
Meyers, K, Lane, B, Zucker, J, Wu, Y, Carnevale, C, Burnside, H, Rowan, S, Mayes, E, Narcisse-Cempini, G, Gold, M, Saldana, L, Golub, S. 2025. A Case Study of the Co-Creation of the PrEP-SIC: a Roadmap to Support Introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis into New Settings. BMC Health Services Research. (Accepted, in-press)