GW Yes CenterWho We AreThe GWU YES Center provides technical assistance, training, guidance and evaluative services to eight demonstration sites around the country working with young men of color who have sex with men (YCMSM). The sites are participants in Outreach, Care and Prevention to Engage HIV Seropositive Young MSM of Color, a Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Initiative of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration. A multidisciplinary team of researchers, care providers, program managers, information technology experts and others are involved. Researchers from the Department of Health Policy and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at GW's School of Public Health and Health Services collaborate with faculty from the University of California at San Francisco in YES Center evaluation activities. The researchers are trained in sociology, epidemiology, and health services research and have successfully evaluated an array of YCMSM and other HIV programs. What We DoIntegrating quantitative and qualitative techniques, the YES Center identifies program- and client-level characteristics that act as barriers to, or facilitators of, entry and retention into care. Over time, the YES Center and the demonstration sites will define core research questions based on these activities, operationalize variables of interest, collect data and conduct a comprehensive cross-site evaluation of services delivered, factors that impede or facilitate service delivery and the client and site characteristics associated with outcomes of interest. Planned activities include:
FacultyContact UsGWU YES Center Principal Investigator: Julia Hidalgo, PhD |
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