This webinar features a special issue of Public Health Reports promoting policy research, creation, and implementation as key to addressing complex, multisectoral factors that influence the population-level morbidity, mortality, and health disparities of HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and tuberculosis. Join us as we discuss two of the featured articles from this special issue.
Editorial Fellow
Public Health Reports
Office of the U.S. Surgeon General
Department of Health and Human Services
Associate Director for Planning and Policy
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Lead author of “State Laws Governing Syringe Services Programs and Participant Syringe Possession, 2014-2019.” This study measures the current status of, and 5-year change in, state laws governing SSP operations and possession of syringes by participants.
Lead author of “Using Mixed-Methods and Multidisciplinary Research to Strengthen Policy Assessments Focusing on Populations at High Risk for Sexually Transmitted Diseases”. Ms. Thompson will discuss examples of how policy assessments were enhanced by the use of mixed methods and multidisciplinary research with a diverse, multidisciplinary team that examined social determinants of health.
