Please join us on Tuesday, October 9 from 10:30AM - 11:30AM for the CDUHR AIDS Seminar. The seminar's topic will be The Typology of the Multi-Level HIV Environmental Riskscape Among Black MSM in the Deep American South: Insights for Getting to Zero New Infections, featuring DeMarc Kickson, PhD.
Dr. DeMarc A. Hickson is Executive Director of Us Helping Us, People Into Living, Inc., an AIDS-Service Organization with offices in Washington, DC and Maryland, and Senior Research Scientist at My Brother's Keeper, Inc. in Jackson, Mississippi. Trained as a Biostatistician and Social Epidemiologist, his work includes community-based participatory research, advocacy and environmental and policy systems changes that shifts paradigms and addresses the salient lifecourse, psychosocial and multilevel factors that impact HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions that chronically and disproportionately impact racial and sexual minorities, including Black gay and bisexual men and transgender women, in the Deep American South. Dr. Hickson recently received a pilot award from the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research to qualitatively explore the optimal behavioral economics methods to improve PrEP adherence among Black MSM, and Black MSM in the Deep South in particular. He is develops and implements community-based care coordination models to improve access to and utilization of culturally-appropriate and relevant clinical, behavioral and social services among people living with and at high-risk for HIV.
Registration is not required. For questions about this event, please reach out to Chris Hilliard at crh218@nyu.edu.