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Testing
Linkage & Partner Services: Partner Services for HIV-positive persons and their partners to connect both recently diagnosed individuals to care and HIV negative individuals at risk to prevention services.
Internet Partner Services: Using technology such as social media apps to conduct partner services.
Community-based Testing: Providing training and technical assistance to conduct HIV testing in non-clinical settings.
Home Testing: Exploring options to allow clients home testing.
Novel Testing Technologies: Evaluating rapid testing technology (such as Determine); pooled RNA testing; 4th generation lab testing.
Featured Faculty:
Shannon Weber, MSW
Director, HIVE
Thomas B. Knoble, MSW
Capacity Building Program Coordinator, Community Health Equity and Promotion (CHEP) Branch, SFDPH
Charles K. Fann
Primary Care Practice Manager, Tom Waddell Urban Health, San Francisco Health Network
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Prevention for Individuals at Risk for HIV
PrEP Integrating PrEP into current HIV testing strategies; implementing PrEP within a STD clinic.
PEP Implementing PEP within a public health setting.
Personalized Cognitive Counseling Training counselors to provide personalized cognitive counseling for episodic substance use.
Featured Faculty:
Jonathan Fuchs, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI) and the CBA Program, SFDPH; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Stephanie Cohen, MD, MPH
Medical Director, San Francisco City Clinic; Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCSF
Tim Matheson PhD, MS
Intervention Director and Counseling/Interventionist Supervisor, Center for Public Health Research (CPHR) Branch, SFDPH
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Policy
Harm Reduction Engaging with multiple community stakeholders (such as police departments and community organizations) to implement harm reduction strategies.
Jurisdictional Planning Developing strategies to better align prevention and care planning efforts, especially for underserved population, for example utilizing evidence-based resource allocation models.
Data to Care Analyzing epidemiological, behavioral, and other relevant data such as HIV-related syndemics and social determinants of health to support HIV prevention program implementation.
Featured Faculty:
Susan Scheer, PhD, MPH
Director, HIV Epidemiology Section, SFDPH
Jose Luis Guzman
HIV/HCV Prevention & Substance Use Program Liaison, Community Health Equity & Promotion Branch, SFDPH
Darpun Sachdev, MD
Clinical Prevention Specialist, Disease Prevention and Control, SFDPH
How can we help?
Our capacity building assistance is tailored to your needs. Whether you’d prefer to have us do an online webinar, a virtual convening of peers across the country, or an in-person training, we will work with your team to determine what you’re looking for and the best way of getting it to you.