Dr. Oni Blackstock will discuss reaching the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals in NYC (90% of people living with HIV know their status, 90% of people diagnosed with HIV are on medication, 90% of people on medication are virally suppressed) with respect to people who use drugs. Dr. Blackstock will also review trends at the intersection of drug use and HIV in NYC and shed some light on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting prevention, care, and harm reduction efforts.
Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS, is Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control for the NYC Health Department. As Assistant Commissioner, she oversees and supervises all programmatic and administrative activities for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS. She is also a primary care physician, HIV specialist and researcher.
Dr. Blackstock’s prior research has included developing and testing interventions to improve engagement in HIV treatment and prevention services. She has an interest in community-engaged research and advocacy and has been funded by the NIH, NYS Department of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and prevention.
Dr. Blackstock received her undergraduate and her medical degrees from Harvard. She completed her primary care Internal Medicine residency and ambulatory chief residency here at Montefiore/Einstein, as well as an HIV clinical fellowship at Harlem Hospital. She received a Masters of Health Sciences Research from Yale School of Medicine’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
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