The general goal of the Hep Free NYC Research committee is to create a network and foster collaboration among NYC hepatitis focused researchers. Additional participant priorities:
- Circulate funding opportunities, coordinate to reduce competition and increase collaboration where possible
- Supporting dissemination activities nationally and internationally
- Health Dept has coordinated several NYC Hepatitis Research Symposium
- Drug Policy Alliance hosts regular briefings and research round tables and opportunities – follow: @DrugPolicyNerds
- Hep Free NYC – Research and Funding Boards, monthly E-Newsletter, follow on social media @hepfreenyc
- Interest in pooling data across research programs to support effectiveness research
- Align with NYC Viral Hepatitis Elimination Planning – Health Dept goal to complete in 2020 in collaboration with Hep Free NYC/community stakeholders
- NYS Hepatitis C Elimination Task Force web page
- World Health Organization Hepatitis Elimination web page
Participant hepatitis research interest summary
- Models of care: efficacy and implementation science
- Treatment in primary care
- Test and treat (rapid treatment initiation), effect of removal of prior auth and genotype requirements
- Integrated care – medication assisted treatment, psychiatry
- HCV treatment in jail, homeless service organizations, substance use tx facilities, and “cure parties” in underground places where people inject drugs
- Outreach and screening
- Integrated care for pregnant women – HCV, MAT, OBGYN
- HCV in pregnancy
- Liver cancer health disparities
- Contact tracing – finding patients out of care
- Impact of Social Determinants of Health on hepatitis health care outcomes
- Impact of criminalization of drug use, mass incarceration and immigration status on health care access and outcomes
- HCV in youth – sero-clearance
- Economic cost analysis
- Phylogenetics
Health Department resources shared
-
- 2018 Hepatitis A, B and C Annual Report
- Epiquery – Analyze and visualize NYC health data from surveys, disease reports and vital records by sex, race/ethnicity, age and other stratifications.
- Hep Free NYC – Research and Funding Boards, monthly E-Newsletter, and social media @hepfreenyc
Future meeting schedule, structure and participant recruitment
- Quarterly meetings at DPA
- Develop mission statement – Shashi Kapadia
- Rotate Chairs for meetings
- Conduct survey to assess participant committee priorities
- Select 1-5 committee “deliverables”
- Recruit researchers in the following areas: HBV clinical, harm reduction, policy, immigrant health, qualitative, hepatology
Upcoming Opportunities
- DPA Drug Researchers’ Roundtable “Medicaid Expansion as a Pathway to Health and Housing Justice.” February 27 (4:30 – 6 PM). RSVP to join us online: bit.ly/Feb2020DRRTZoom.
- DPA DOHMH Quarterly Briefing “Trends in benzodiazepine prescriptions and unintentional drug overdose deaths” March 12 (4:30-6pm). RSVP to join in person: bit.ly/Mar2020Briefing
- DPA – Apply for Unbounded Knowledge: Envisioning a New Future for Drug Policy Research, one-day research incubator on drug sales, markets, and use practices. Due March 9.
- Conference call for abstracts: INHSU (due March 15), Harm Reduction Conference (Due March 2), US Conference on African Diaspora Health (Due March 1). UAB Health Disparities Research Symposium (Due February 24).
- Funding: HHS/NIH, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) and National Cancer Institute (NCI): Research grant. Mechanisms of Disparities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Cancer (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). Deadline for LOI is March 1. Learn more.
Attendee List
- Shashi N Kapadia, MD, Cornell – shk9078@med.cornell.edu
- Benjamin Eckhardt, MD, NYU and Bellevue -Benjamin.Eckhardt@nyulangone.org
- Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, PhD, Associate Professor, CUNY – pedro.mateu-gelabert@sph.cuny.edu
- Justin Chan, MD, H+H Correctional Health – chanj15@nychhc.org
- Victoria Foster, MPH, NYU – Victoria.Foster@nyulangone.org
- Jeff Weiss, PhD, Mount Sinai – Jeffrey.Weiss@mountsinai.org
- Sheila Vakharia, PhD LMSW, Drug Policy Alliance – svakharia@drugpolicy.org
- Norman Archer, Policy & Research Associate, Housing Works – n.archer@housingworks.org
- Ginny Shubert, Housing Works – g.shubert@housingworks.org
- Brianna Norton, MD, Montefiore – bnorton@montefiore.org
- Yi-Ling Tan Yi-Ling.Tan@nyulangone.org
- Nirah Johnson, LCSW, Health Department – njohnso2@health.nyc.gov
- Jessie Schwartz, RN, MPH, Health Department – jschwartz2@health.nyc.gov
Will attend in the future:
- Olorunseun Ogunwobi, CUNY Ogunwobi@GENECTR.HUNTER.CUNY.EDU
- Matt Akiyama, Montefiore
- Ann Winters, Health Dept
