ViiV Healthcare Partnership
About Us
The goal of this partnership is to improve the quality of HIV treatment for people of color, aiming to reduce health disparities. Here is how this is happening:
- Training of faculty, staff and students on the principles of implementation science
- Community engagement to prepare healthcare systems to receive interventions
- Evidence-based interventions tailored to vulnerable populations
- Delivery of such interventions in a culturally sensitive manner
ViiV Healthcare Partnership Projects
- HBCU Students' Risk for HIV, STIs and COVID-19
- Co-investigators:
- Dr. Irene Doherty, BRRI Research Scientist
- Dr. Deborah Fortune, NCCU Department of Public Health Education
- Co-investigators:
- Healthy Lifestyles for Patients on PrEP
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr. Levette Scott, former member of the NCCU Department of Counseling and Higher Education
- Principal Investigator:
- Implementation Approaches and Health Literacy for All Ages
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr. Cherise Harrington, NCCU Department of Public Health Education
- Principal Investigator:
News
North Carolina Central University has teamed with the pharmaceutical manufacturer ViiV to lower the impact of HIV in African American and other minority populations.
The initiative will develop implementation science capacity at NCCU and train NCCU students in implementation science research, which integrates new research findings into development of health policy and clinical practice.