On December 2, 2014, the Center for Community Health Partnerships at the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis convened a meeting to bring together community groups and university researchers working in HIV/AIDS.
The meeting involved short overview presentations to help familiarize the groups and individuals with one another, plus time for discussion, with the goal of finding areas for potential collaboration, or identifying gaps that we could work to address.
View the presentations (PDF).
Participants included:
- Shatrughan Bastola, City of Saint Louis Department of Health
- Jodie Bica, St. Louis County Department of Health
- Tawnya Brown, Washington University, Infectious Diseases Clinic
- Matthew Brown, Washington University, Center for Community Health Partnerships
- Richelle Clark, Washington University, Center for Community Health Partnerships
- Kimberly Donica, Washington University, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Project Ark and the SPOT
- Ahmad Fahd, MD, Washington University, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Opal Jones, Doorways
- Greg Lukeman, Food Outreach
- Cheryl Oliver, Saint Louis Effort for AIDS
- Eleanor Peters, St. Louis County Department of Health
- Rachel Presti, MD, Washington University, Division of Infectious Diseases
- Hilary Reno, MD, Washington University, Division of Infectious Diseases
- Alexandra Schwach, St. Louis County Department of Health
- Susan Wightman, Washington University, Division of Infectious Diseases
The center received positive feedback from the attendees and will work with the group to identify ways to support further connections or potential partnerships in the future. Among their comments, participants noted that this is “just the type of meeting the region needs,” and encouraged us to “keep the momentum.”