Open AccessPublic Health Practice-Driven Research to Improve HIV Prevention in the United States
Author(s) -
Julia C. Dombrowski,
Mary K. Irvine,
Denis Nash,
Graham Harriman,
Matthew R. Golden
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002194
Subject(s) - public health , health care , public relations , medicine , implementation research , psychological intervention , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , health policy , nursing , political science , family medicine , law
The evidence-practice gap in HIV prevention and the care continuum in the United States often reflects a mismatch between the perspectives of researchers and public health practitioners. The traditional research paradigm of sequential progress from efficacy research to implementation in practice and widespread scale-up is not well-aligned with the reality of health department program implementation.