Targeted Access, Knowledge and Education on HIV for Health Professions Programs (TAKE on HIV) provides free training, tools and technical assistance to support integration of the National HIV Curriculum (NHC) into health professions programs. We provide training and tools for HPP faculty to integrate the NHC and expand HIV knowledge content within their programs. Our goal is to support the delivery of evidence-based, high quality HIV knowledge content with tailored training and technical assistance for integration. We aim to increase the HIV workforce and improve the quality of health care for people living with HIV.

Project Goals and Activities

  • GOAL 1 – To identify, engage and recruit accredited HPPs to integrate the NHC in order to train future health professionals
    • Objective 1a – To establish the Targeted Access Knowledge and Education on HIV for Health Professions Programs (TAKE on HIV for Health Professions Programs) project.
    • Objective1b – To systematically recruit a minimum of 20 accredited HPPs to integrate the NHC with an emphasis on medical, nursing and pharmacy graduate education and residency programs.
  • GOAL 2 – To plan and deliver training and technical assistance to accredited HPPs to facilitate integration of the NHC.
    • Objective 2a - To define evidence-based NHC integration processes.
    • Objective 2b - To define and implement an NHC integration training and technical assistance process.
    • Objective 2c - To provide comprehensive technical assistance for implementation of NHC integration into HPPs.
    • Objective 2d - To develop discipline and program type specific integration tool kits.
  • GOAL 3 - To train HPPs faculty in the use of the NHC.
    • Objective 3a – To utilize telementoring modalities to train faculty on how to use the integrated NHC within a health care or degree certification program that includes HIV educational credit.
  • GOAL 4 – To expose students in accredited HPPs to NHC curriculum content across multiple modalities.
    • Objective 4a – To utilize multiple telementoring modalities to expose students in HPPs to NHC content.
    • Objective 4b – To strengthen existing and develop new telementoring programs for students in HPPs specifically related to hepatitis C and hepatitis B co-infection care.
  • GOAL 5 – To assess and evaluate, in partnership with the AIDS Education Training Center (AETC) National Evaluation Contractor (NEC), the activities and outcomes of this project and the AETC Program’s strengthening of the HIV workforce to improve HIV care continuum outcomes.
    • Objective 5a – To utilize evidence-based implementation science frameworks to ensure systematic, robust, electronically maintained data collection.
    • Objective 5b - To develop and define data elements that will be collected across the full evaluation spectrum of process, outcome and impact evaluation.
    • Objective 5c - To contribute collected data to the NEC data collection system for the AETC National Evaluation Plan (NEP).

  • GOAL 6 –To support replicability and sustainability of project activities and utilization of project resources beyond project end.

    • Objective 6a – To develop a systematic dissemination plan/strategy that encompasses a wide range of dissemination mechanisms with national reach to stakeholders in health education, policy and underserved communities.
    • Objective 6b – To target institutional leadership of HPPs (overall, departmental and programmatic in dissemination efforts to encourage consideration of NHC integration utilizing resources developed over project period of performance.
    • Objective 6c– To ensure inclusion of free public access to all developed resources.

    The following 21 health professions programs (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, and family medicine residencies) from 16 academic institutions were recruited from the 57 EHE jurisdictions to participate in the second cycle of the project:

    • UT Health San Antonio - Internal Medicine Residency Program
    • UT Health San Antonio - Occupational Therapy
    • UNT Health Fort Worth - College of Health Professions - Physician Assistant Studies
    • UNT Health Fort Worth - College of Pharmacy
    • Northwestern State University - College of Nursing & School of Allied Health - Master of Science in Nursing
    • Dell Medical School - University of Texas at Austin - Family Residency
    • University of the Incarnate Word - Ila Faye Miller School of Nursing and Health Professions - Doctor of Nursing Practice
    • Cherokee Nation - Family Residency Program
    • Dillard University - College of Nursing
    • Methodist Charlton Medical Center - Dallas - Family Medicine Residency Program
    • Florida A&M University - College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health
    • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Georgia - School of Pharmacy
    • Southern University and A&M College - School of Nursing
    • Southern University New Orleans - School of Nursing
    • Louisiana State University New Orleans - Department of Physician Assistant Studies
    • UT Health San Antonio - School of Dentistry
    • The University of Tennessee Health Science Center - College of Nursing
    • University of Nevada Las Vegas - School of Dental Medicine
    • University of Nevada Las Vegas - School of Nursing
    • Mercer University - College of Pharmacy
    • Texas A&M University - College of Medicine






       

Staff

Sean Hubbard, PhD
Program Director/Principal investigator
Crystal K Hodge, PharmD
Curriculum Integration Advisor/Co-Investigator
Charlotte A Noble, PhD, MPH
Lead Evaluator/Co-investigator
Suyen Schneegans, MA
Training and Technical Assistance Lead
Trisha Melhado, MPH
Evaluation Lead
Blake Ross, MPH
Research Coordinator
Aishatu Yusuf, DrPH, MBBS, MPH
Project Coordinator