Current Research
Family Health = Family Wealth (R01HD113806)
2024-2029
Efficacy testing of a multi-level family planning intervention to increase contraceptive use and reduce unintended pregnancy in low resource settings
Kisoboka/ It is Possible! (R01AA031650)
2024-2029
Reducing hazardous alcohol use and optimizing treatment as prevention among men living with HIV in risk environments
Kayungirizi/ Connecting Men with PrEP (R34MH132479)
2024-2029
Secondary distribution of HIV self-testing by female sex workers, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) starter packs, and brief counseling to promote PrEP initiation and persistence among high-risk men in Uganda
2024-2029
Utilizing Implementation Research Methodologies to Adapt an Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use and Improve HIV Care Outcomes among Men Living with HIV who have Serodiscordant Pregnant Partners
2024-2025
Adapting an evidence-based transdiagnostic intervention addressing mental health and alcohol use for use among adolescent girls and young women living with HIV or at risk of HIV.
2024-2025
Boosting maternal vaccination in Uganda: Insights from antenatal care providers in a high burden, low resource setting
Kisoboka Mukwano / It is possible my love (R34AA030489)
2022-2025
Improving HIV care engagement among Ugandan adolescent girls and young women through reductions in male partner alcohol use and intimate partner violence risk: The Kisoboka Mukwano Intervention.
Communities Fighting COVID! Returning Our Kids Back to School Safely (OT2HD108112-01, 3OT2HD108112-01S1)
2021-2025
Working with middle schools comparing at-home vs. on-site testing and evaluating a family-based model of testing. Then scaling up a final testing program, studying implementation, and observing the impact on transmissions averted over time.
2020-2025
Improving the understanding of the relationship between harmful alcohol use and the HIV epidemic.
Completed Research
Kisoboka – Pilot RCT (R34AA030489)
2020-2024
Development and pilot testing of a multilevel behavioral economic and motivational interviewing-based intervention to reduce heavy drinking and improve HIV care engagement among fisherfolk in Uganda.
Family Health = Family Wealth (R21HD098523)
2020-2023
Development, testing, and health effects of a multilevel family planning intervention
RADx-UP Communities Fighting COVID! (3U54CA132384-10S1, 3U54CA132384-10S5)
2020-2023
Creating effective COVID-19 testing uptake strategies that focus on Latinx, Black, Filipino, and immigrant communities who are exposed or at high risk of exposure to COVID-19
Ekkubo / PATH (R01MH106391)
2015-2022
Enhanced linkage to HIV care following home-based HIV testing in rural Uganda
2018-2023
A Mobile-Enabled Economic Empowerment Intervention for Girls to Reduce Risk for Partner Violence in Ibadan, Nigeria
Building Research Initiatives Advancing Global Health Equity (BRIDGE) at San Diego State University
