MSU Research Group on HIV
and Sexual Health
Our mission is to contribute to understanding of how to end the HIV epidemic through community-based action. The research and evaluations that we conduct focus on youth and young adults at high-risk of exposure to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and on community-based and structural interventions across the continuum of HIV prevention, testing and treatment. We have a particular focus on sexual minority youth and young adults of color and efforts to protect their health, foster their well being, and ensure their human rights. At the individual level, we seek to understand factors that impact on young people's ability to remain healthy. At the program level, we seek to identify programs and practices that help young people reduce their risk of exposure to HIV and improve their access to HIV testing and affirming medical care. At the organizational level, we seek to improve understanding of how HIV prevention programs are implemented in community settings, learn what organizational and environmental contingencies govern the application of evidence-based programs to community-based service provision, and examine the long-term consequences of implementing evidence-based programs and practices in community settings. At the structural level, we seek to understand effective strategies to reduce stigma and discrimination and facilitate access to HIV-related care and services.
News Today: MPact and the Project ACT Team Win the 2022 W. K. Kellogg Community Engagement Scholarship Exemplary Project Award from the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities and the Engagement Scholarship Consortium.
The Exemplary Project Award is given in recognition of mutually beneficial and sustained campus-community research partnerships.
Upcoming Events!
September 21, 2022
Dr. Miller accepted MSU's Exemplary Project Award at the 2022 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference in Athens, Georgia on behalf of MPact Global Action for Gay Men's Health and Rights and the Project ACT Team.
Dr. Miller accepted MSU's Exemplary Project Award at the 2022 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference in Athens, Georgia on behalf of MPact Global Action for Gay Men's Health and Rights and the Project ACT Team.
See the Project ACT wrap-up video on MPact Global Action's YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COHDdB264ZM
Check out our case study of using mystery patient monitoring techniques in Cameroon and Zimbabwe on the MPact website.
Read our new toolkit on evaluation for LGBTQ activists available on the MPact website and also posted below:
Check out our case study of using mystery patient monitoring techniques in Cameroon and Zimbabwe on the MPact website.
Read our new toolkit on evaluation for LGBTQ activists available on the MPact website and also posted below:
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