Integrating family planning and HIV counseling services to help women assess HIV risk and choice of family planning methods; developing tools to assess HIV vulnerability in family planning services; and planning global and regional convenings for establishing comprehensive recommendations.
Country Office: USA (Washington, DC)
HIV Prevention Clinical Trials Network
Participating in the scientific committee of the HIV Prevention Clinical Trials Network focused on socio-behavioral sciences to assess research priorities; designing study concepts, protocols, and data-collection instruments; enhancing collaboration; and addressing issues in research ethics.
Institutional Knowledge About Interventions to Reduce Financial Barriers by Women Seeking Fistula Repair Services
Reducing financial barriers, particularly for transportation, faced by women seeking fistula repair services, and increasing access to safe maternal care.
Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation to Strengthen the Evidence on Frontline Delivery of Primary Health Care
Standardizing metrics for performance monitoring of frontline health worker programs; generating critical evidence that advances community health systems; and engaging existing communities of practice.
Project SOAR (Supporting Operational AIDS Research)
Using the best available science, research expertise, and state-of-the-art methodologies to generate evidence for improving HIV prevention, care, and treatment policies and programs around the world.
Reducing HIV Risk Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in sub-Saharan Africa: Implementation Science Around the DREAMS Initiative
Conducting implementation science research to examine program effects and strategies for reducing HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women and their partners, and to build assets.
Strategic Programming for Key and Priority Populations in Uganda through Enhanced Use of Data
Providing technical assistance for data collection on HIV-related risk and health-utilization behaviors in order to estimate HIV/STI prevalence and strengthen the capacity to collect, manage, analyze, and translate data for programs.
Adolescent Atlas for Action (A3)
Building an interactive website with accessible analytics about adolescents across multiple sectors and insight on trends, vulnerabilities, and opportunities in order to promote evidence-based decision-making and investments in adolescents.
Breakthrough–Research (in collaboration with Breakthrough–Action)
Leading social and behavioral change research for proven interventions to support developing countries’ health and development outcomes, including demand for modern family planning, maternal and child death prevention, and AIDS and malaria eradication.
Community Health and Research Centers and the Delivery of HIV Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ensuring comprehensive HIV and STI prevention, care, and treatment for high-risk groups by expanding HIV self-testing, communication on COVID-19-related health messages and prevention materials, and HIV treatment for patients while ensuring protection for frontline workers.