Resource Category: Webinar

The Science of HIV Prevention and the Consumer: What Works Best?

Overview

Event-driven PrEP use has been gaining traction globally as an effective means of HIV prevention. With the endorsements from the World Health Organization, International AIDS Society, the European AIDS Clinical Society, and the recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is time to examine the evidence and consider the use of event-driven PrEP to further reduce the number of new HIV infections and utilize this tool to achieve the goal of ending the HIV epidemic.

Learning Objectives

  • Define and summarize the current evidence of the safety and efficacy of event-driven PrEP
  • Identify the rationale of offering event-driven PrEP as an alternative to daily regimen among men who have sex with men
  • Discuss client considerations and clear discussion of event-driven PrEP to men who have sex with men

Inflamm-aging: Effects of Chronic Inflammation with HIV

Overview

Advances in Antiretroviral therapy (ART) allow people with HIV to live longer with fewer medications. Join us as Dr. Peter Hunt details the connection between chronic inflammation and HIV infection and discusses care considerations and emerging research.

Learning Objectives

    • Understand pathyophysiology of chronic inflammation associated with HIV infection
    • Recall important patient counseling points associated with “inflamm-aging”
    • List activities patients can take to decrease inflammation related morbidity and mortality
    • Recognize opportunities for care coordination as patients age with HIV
    •  Describe emerging research related to inflammation and HIV infection

4 Components of Effective Nonprofit Leadership: A Skills-Based Approach to Unlocking Change”

Webinar Description

This webinar will provide participants with an overview of the essential qualities and skills that effective leaders can and should implement when running nonprofit (and even for-profit) organizations. Participants will learn how to identify their leadership strengths and weaknesses, as well as learn how to create a “leadership development plan” to improve and refine their existing skill level

Faculty: 

Monica S. Ruiz, PhD, MPH

Dept. of Prevention and Community Health

Milken Institute School of Public Health

The George Washington University

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify the leadership styles/qualities that are harmful to the survival of nonprofit organizations
  2. Identify the leadership style/qualities that can help nonprofit organizations to grow and thrive
  3. Identify their own leadership strengths and deficits
  4. Create a “leadership development plan” that will help them overcome their deficits, ultimately building their leadership skills and capacity.

Implementing Telehealth in HIV Care

Reetu Grewal, M.D., is the medical director at UF Health Family Medicine and Pediatrics – Baymeadows. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and has received the AAFP Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. She enjoys focusing on wellness, doing office procedures and teaching medical students. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, exercise and hiking.

Creating Communities of Practice for HIV Care and Treatment: What We Need to Know!

Dr. Natella Rakhmanina is a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University and serves as a Director of the HIV Program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, USA.  Dr. Rakhmanina obtained her MD degree at People’s Friendship University in Moscow, Russia, and her PhD degree at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  For more than 20 years she has been providing clinical care to HIV-infected infants, children and adolescents, and continues her practice treating pediatric and adolescent patients in metropolitan DC area.  She is certified in HIV medicine and is a successful clinical researcher, focusing her research on the treatment and prevention of HIV in children and adolescents and serving as a principal investigator of NIH, CDC and industry funded pediatric and adolescent HIV studies.  Dr. Rakhmanina is also a Senior Technical Advisor at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation leading several projects on pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment in Sub-Saharan African countries.  Dr. Rakhmanina is a Chair of the Committee on Pediatric AIDS at the American Academy of Pediatrics, member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on the Pediatric Antiretroviral Therapy and Management Guidelines at the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council in National Institutes of Health, member of the Pediatric Advisory Working Group at the World Health Organization, and a Regent of the Board and Chair of the Bylaws committee at the American College of Clinical Pharmacology.

Achieving Health Equity: Countering Racism & Implict Bias in Healthcare

It is important for health care leaders to understand the impact of racism, implicit bias and health inequities on access to and quality of HIV care and treatment for Black Women. As supported by data, increased morbidity and mortality among Black Women will remain constant if these healthcare realities are not successfully addressed. 

 Our webinar speakers Dr. Dazon Diallo and Ethlyn McQueen-Gibson will explore how providers and clients can maximize health promotion and wellness, resilience, and self care education, leading to necessary positive and sustainable change.

 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Discuss the unique perspectives of health inequalities on the lives of Black
    youth-, young adult-, middle-, and older-aged Black women.
  • Understand the common social determinants associated with lack of access to health care 
  • List the health inequities that drive disparate rates of HIV and STIs among Black women across the life course 
  • Describe implicit bias as a tool of racism in its impact on health care
  • Detail the global health care access barriers created by provider bias and stigma 
  • Analyze the factors that foster resilience in Black women across the lifespan

The A-B-C’s of Hepatitis C & HIV Co-infection

Webinar Description

Hepatitis C virus infection affects a large percentage of people with HIV. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2009, approximately 21% of adults with HIV in the US also tested positive for the hepatitis C virus. This webinar, hosted by Ronni Marks, will discuss the risk factors and preventative measures of hepatitis C virus infection for people with HIV.

Faculty 

Ronni Marks

Hepatitis C Mentor & Support Group, Inc.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the importance of HIV and HCV testing
  • Describe the syndemic connection between infectious disease, substance use and sexual activity
  • Identify the benefits of having a support system

Maximizing Healthcare Services through Strategy and Structure

Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand core competencies of organizational strategic planning
  • Define organizational efficiency and effectiveness within an organization
  • Create measures for success for organizational and individual employee capacity
  • Learn procedures that will maximize assessment and evaluation of change for organizational goals.

Community Engagement with Community Health Workers in HIV Care.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Boost awareness of community engagement tactics within HIV care.
  • Describe strategies public health departments, community health
    centers, and community-based organizations can undertake to advance
    the community health workers workforce.
  • List examples of services community health workers provide from care
    coordination at an individual level to population health improvements.