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Public Health - Academic Partnership to Provide Technical Assistance for Surveillance and Epidemiology to the District of Columbia Department of Health HIV/AIDS Administration

Brief Project Description

Sponsor: District of Columbia Department of Health
Principal Investigator: Alan Greenberg, MD, MPH
Additional Faculty: Amanda D. Castel, MD,MPH, Irene Kuo, PhD, MPH, Manya Magnus, PhD, MPH, Dante Verme, PhD, MS
In March 2006, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics worked closely with the HIV/AIDS Department of the District of Columbia Department of Health to create the "Public Health-Academic Partnership" to provide technical support to improve HIV/AIDS surveillance and epidemiology in Washington, DC. To date, the Partnership has been highly successful, collaborating extensively on projects including a comprehensive technical evaluation of HIV/AIDS surveillance in DC; the successful transition to named HIV reporting in DC; the release in October 2007 of the DC HIV/AIDS Surveillance report, which included the first AIDS case data since 2002 and the first HIV data ever in DC; the successful conduct of the heterosexual cycle of the CDC-funded National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System with >1,000 persons participating in Wards 7 and 8; a monitoring and evaluation project of the DC DOH's HIV testing campaign with data from over 38,500 clients HIV tested in DC entered and analyzed; currently providing technical support and analysis for the DC DOH's hepatitis case registry; and numerous presentations at national scientific conferences. Thus far, six GW faculty, five GW staff scientists, and 12 GW public health graduate students have participated in this effort.

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