Danielle Giovenco
Emory University, GA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
HIV remains a major threat to young women in sub-Saharan Africa. Social forces such as partner violence and disruptions to health services can push infection risk higher.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
HIV prevention
pre-exposure prophylaxis
PrEP
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Feb 2029
What they work on
- Interview and survey young African women aged 15–24 who experience intimate partner violence about PrEP knowledge, preferences among oral PrEP, the dapivirine ring and injectable cabotegravir, and barriers to uptake.
- Interview key informants, including program implementers and policymakers, about setting-level factors and linkage strategies such as peer navigators and care integration for PrEP delivery.
- Develop a multi-component PrEP-linkage implementation strategy through iterative consultation with young women and stakeholders, ready for a future pilot trial.
- Build a harmonized database across South African national surveillance systems and use interrupted time series analysis to track HIV, mental health and social determinant trends before and during COVID-19.
- Extend an agent-based model to identify social factors predicting HIV outcomes during COVID-19 and simulate hypothetical interventions targeting them.
More about the research
Two projects study how to keep HIV prevention and care on track for vulnerable populations. One designs a way to connect young women who experience partner violence to HIV-preventing medicines. The other uses the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa to measure how disruptive events set back HIV progress, and what could soften the blow.
Why it matters
This work could give health programs in sub-Saharan Africa a tested way to connect violence-exposed young women to PrEP, including long-acting options, in settings they already visit. It could also give South African policymakers methods to estimate how crises disrupt HIV services. Such methods could point to social and psychological factors that interventions might target during future disruptive events.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Preventing disruptions in progress towards ending HIV/AIDS: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
NIH · Mar 2024 – Feb 2029
Meeting adolescent girls and young women who experience intimate partner violence where they are: Developing an implementation strategy for linkage to PrEP options
NIH · Aug 2024 – Jul 2027
Closest labs
Anne Fehrenbacher
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Model barriers and facilitators for adopting a digital PrEP implementation strategy within India's National AIDS Control Organization Targeted Intervention programs, guided by the EPIS implementation science framework.
Dovie Watson
University of Pennsylvania, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Identify changeable provider-, practice-, and community-level factors that affect PrEP delivery in primary care, using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), a structured list of factors that shape program adoption.
Rachel Solnick
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Develop the TIPPED protocol, which uses routine post-discharge callbacks about STI results to offer HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), together with an implementation strategy shaped by stakeholder input.
The school
Emory University: 70 labs on PI Pages, $1.2B a year on research, 286 research doctorates a year.
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