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.
2022 – 2024
Jenga Dada: A group-based intervention to prevent partner violence and unintended pregnancy among women in Kenya
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
2018-2024
A Mobile-Enabled Economic Empowerment Intervention to Reduce Risk for Partner Violence and Adolescent Pregnancy Among Adolescent Girls in Ibadan, Nigeria
Building Research Initiatives Advancing Global Health Equity (BRIDGE) at San Diego State University
