Julia Hidalgo, ScD, MSW, MPH

Julia Hidalgo is a Research Professor in the Department of Health Policy.

• Phone: (202) 530-2375
• Fax: (202) 296-0025
• Email: julia.hidalgo@positiveoutcomes.net

Professor Hidalgo brings rigor, innovation and experience to her many research endeavors and consultancies, which include helping to prepare HIV care providers to operate in a managed care environment and working with federal and state governments on the organizing and financing of HIV care. She currently has research contracts from the National Institutes of Health and the Office of Women's Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, among others.

Dr. Hidalgo came to GW as a senior research scientist in 1997, after serving for almost a decade as Director of the Center for AIDS Services, Planning and Development in the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. As director of the Department of Health Policy's DrPH Program, she works closely with mid-career health policy professionals to help them gain the advanced skills required to address the challenges of the U.S. health care system. She is also chief executive officer of Positive Outcomes, Inc., a minority, veteran-owned consultant firm whose clients include government agencies, foundations, health care provider organizations, managed care plans and advocacy groups.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Community Studies), University of California at Santa Cruz, 1975
Master of Public Heath (Health Planning and Policy), University of California School of Public Health, 1978
Master of Social Work (Research and Evaluation), San Jose State University School of Social Work, 1977
Doctor of Science (Operations Research and Health Services Research), The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1987

Teaching

Basics of Statistics for Health Policy, Department of Health Policy
Intersection of Health Services Research and Health Policy Research and Health Systems Change, Department of Health Policy
Leadership in Public Health Practice, Department of Health Policy

Research

Dr. Hidalgo's main research interests include: the use of large, administrative multi-source databases to address policy-relevant research questions (for example, using insurance claims files to conduct population-based studies); development of integrated delivery systems; reengineering health care financing and delivery in an era of diminished resources; identifying racial/ethnic disparities and developing strategies to address them; and HIV financing, policy development and program evaluation.

Community Service

Professor Hidalgo serves as a consultant to funders, policymakers, front-line health care workers and other key stakeholders throughout the United States to organize, finance and evaluate their efforts to meet the needs of medically indigent and other special-needs populations.

Departments

• Health Policy

Institutes & Centers

• Center for Health Policy Research
• GW Yes Center

Research Activities

• Evaluation and Support Center: Outreach, Care, and Prevention to Engage HIV Seropositive Young MSM of Color
• GW Yes Center

Community Activities

• Evaluation and Support Center: Outreach, Care, and Prevention to Engage HIV Seropositive Young MSM of Color
• GW Yes Center

Publications

• Ryan White CARE Act-funded providers: financial challenges encountered in meeting demand for services.
  Hidalgo J, Benedict A. Ryan White CARE Act-funded providers: financial challenges encountered in meeting demand for services. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc. 2005. Voices from the field, Report No.: 3.1.
• Ryan White CARE Act-funded minority providers and MAI-funded providers: their roles and challenges.
  Hidalgo J, Benedict A. Ryan White CARE Act-funded minority providers and MAI-funded providers: their roles and challenges. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc. 2005. Voices from the field, Report No.: 3.0.
• Maximizing access to medications through efficient use of CARE Act resources.
  Levi J, Hidalgo J, Palen J, Parrish B, Williams K, Lara A. Maximizing access to medications through efficient use of CARE Act resources. Rockville: Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau; 2005.
• Examination of fiscal management and the allocation of CARE Act resources.
  Hidalgo J. Examination of fiscal management and the allocation of CARE Act resources. Rockville: Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau; 2005.
• Best practices for reaching and engaging HIV-infected youth in care.
  Hannay J, Hidalgo J. Best practices for reaching and engaging HIV-infected youth in care. Final report. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc., 2005. Order No.: 03-HAB-223943A.
• Finding HIV-positive youth and bringing them into care.
  Hidalgo J, Hannay J. Finding HIV-positive youth and bringing them into care. Washington: AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families; 2005.
• Client insurance feasibility study.
  Hidalgo J. Client insurance feasibility study. Ft. Lauderdale: Broward Regional Health Planning Council; 2005.
• Center for Integrated HIV Care Networks. Final report.
  Hidalgo J. Center for Integrated HIV Care Networks. Final report. Washington: Center for Health Policy Research, 2004. Grant No.: HAB H97 HA 00152-03.
• A guide to data sharing by state public health and Medicaid programs.
  Hidalgo J, Palen J, Wilensky S. A guide to data sharing by state public health and Medicaid programs. Washington: Center for Health Policy Research; 2004.
• Identifying successful HIV oral health programs. Final report.
  Hidalgo J, Schietinger H, Abel S. Identifying successful HIV oral health programs. Final report. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2003. Order No.: 01-0322(P).
• Development and preliminary specifications for an AIDS drug assistance program economic model. Final report.
  Corea J, Foreman R, Hidalgo J, Wutoh A. Development and preliminary specifications for an AIDS drug assistance program economic model. Final report. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2003.
• A programmatic assessment of the Title IV program grantee budgetary expenditures. Final report.
  Hidalgo J, Wilson M, Owen A, Jones KC, Levi J. A programmatic assessment of the Title IV program grantee budgetary expenditures. Final report. Washington: Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau, George Washington University Center for Health Policy Research; 2003.
• Assessment of third party insurance policies and practices among Title I, Ryan White CARE Act subgrantees in the greater Baltimore metropolitan area. Final report.
  Hidalgo J. Assessment of third party insurance policies and practices among Title I, Ryan White CARE Act subgrantees in the greater Baltimore metropolitan area. Final report. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2003.
• Feasibility of a study of HIV-infected women and their children enrolled in the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program.
  Hidalgo J. Feasibility of a study of HIV-infected women and their children enrolled in the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program. Washington: Center for Health Policy Research; 2002. Contract No.: 97-1514A. Funded by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
• Technical Assistance (TA) needs of Ryan White CARE Act providers.
  Hidalgo J, Kersavage N. Technical Assistance (TA) needs of Ryan White CARE Act providers. Policy brief. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002. Voices from the field, Report No.: 4.0.
• Housing assistance providers in the Ryan White CARE Act.
  Hidalgo J, Kersavage N. Housing assistance providers in the Ryan White CARE Act. Housing assistance brief. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002. Voices from the field, Report No.: 2.3.
• Financing and Provision of Prevention Services by CARE Act Agencies.
  Hidalgo J, Kersavage N. Financing and Provision of Prevention Services by CARE Act Agencies. HIV prevention brief. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002. Voices from the field, Report No.: 2.2.
• Participation of racial and ethnic minority providers in clinical and social support services.
  Hidalgo J. Participation of racial and ethnic minority providers in clinical and social support services. Report to Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002. Funded by the Ryan White CARE Act. Voices from the field, Report No.: 1.0.
• Minority providers in the Ryan White CARE Act: their roles and challenges.
  Hidalgo J, Kersavage N. Minority providers in the Ryan White CARE Act: their roles and challenges. Report to Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002. Voices from the field, Report No.: 2.0.
• Participation of racial and ethnic minority providers in clinical and social support services.
  Hidalgo J, Kersavage N. Participation of racial and ethnic minority providers in clinical and social support services. HIV policy brief. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002. Funded by the Ryan White CARE Act. Voices from the field, Report No.: 2.1.
• Profiling Ryan White CARE Act providers.
  Hidalgo J, Rawlings MK, Lewin R. Profiling Ryan White CARE Act providers. Technical report. Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002.
• Oral health care for people with HIV infection: a review of the literature.
  Hidalgo J. Oral health care for people with HIV infection: a review of the literature. Harwood: Positive Outcomes, Inc.; 2002.
• Self-assessment module: managed care readiness.
  Hidalgo J. Self-assessment module: managed care readiness. Rockville: Health Resources and Services Administration HIV/AIDS Bureau; 2002. Available from: URL: http://hab.hrsa.gov/tools/sammanaged.htm.
• An inventory of federally sponsored HIV and HIV-related databases.
  Hidalgo J, Levi J, Blake S, Hardy L. An inventory of federally sponsored HIV and HIV-related databases. Washington: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Services. Available from: URL: http://aspe.hhs.gov/health/reports/hivdatabases/cdc01.html.2000.
• Participation of racial and ethnic minority providers in clinical and support services funded by the Ryan White CARE Act: preliminary findings.
  Hidalgo J, Rawlings MK, Lewis R. Participation of racial and ethnic minority providers in clinical and support services funded by the Ryan White CARE Act: preliminary findings. In: Ryan C, editor. Directions in HIV service delivery and care: a policy brief. Funded by the Ryan White CARE Act. Rockville: Health Resources and Services Administration; 2000(2):15-20.
• The impact of state variability in entitlement programs on the Ryan White CARE Act and access to services for underserved populations.
  Levi J, Hidalgo J, Wyatt J. The impact of state variability in entitlement programs on the Ryan White CARE Act and access to services for underserved populations. In: Ryan C, editor. Directions in HIV service delivery and care: a policy brief. Rockville: Health Resources and Services Administration; 2000(2):15-20.