Recording Date: September 24, 2026

Speakers: Virginia (Ginger) McKay, Tyrell (Ty) Manning, Justin Cole

About the talk: The St. Louis region accounts for approximately 40% of Missouri’s HIV burden.

This session will introduce the Clear Path Collaborative, a systems-level strategy developed with community partners to strengthen coordination across the HIV service system. Speakers will share how a community-based participatory systems science approach helped identify barriers and inform the Collaborative, along with preliminary findings on provider coordination, organizational engagement, and expanded HIV/STI testing. The session will conclude with lessons learned and challenges in implementing structural approaches to HIV prevention and care.

Recording Date: April 21, 2026

Under the Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) umbrella, the Philadelphia Department of Health and the University of Pennsylvania partnered to contribute to our understanding of how to enhance capacity for local service delivery. We used a team approach involving a new collaboration among the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and community-based Medical Case Management (MCM) agencies, investigators at Historically Black University Lincoln University, and the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Using an implementation science approach, guided by the RE-AIM for Equity Model (Shelton et al 2020), our team evaluated the operationalization of the new MCM model that triages clients to comprehensive or standard levels of care. Key goals were to (a) learn whether Ryan White (RW) care sites are using the new MCM model and whether adoption varies by site characteristics, such as location in medical practices or community-based organizations; (b) determine if clients are triaged to the level of MCM that is most appropriate for each person’s need; and (c) if not, identify how implementation of the MCM model might be improved to enhance program outcomes.

Because this project engaged a collaborative team including the Philadelphia Department of Health, which oversees and funds MCM, and community-based organizations that implement MCM, the project provided critically needed information to mitigate unintended structural barriers to HIV treatment and prevention and transform these processes. Through team science and a focus on academic/community research partnerships, the project provided the basis for developing linkages and future collaborations among the partners, leading to the development and testing of a novel approach to implementing an enhanced MCM model.

Recording Date: December 18, 2025

Yale R3EDI Hub Co-Director Luke Davis presents at the Cheshire Network Seminar on December 18th, 2025 on the Yale R3EDI Hub.

Recording Date: December 18, 2025

Yale R3EDI Hub Co-Director Debbie Humphries presents at the Cheshire Network Seminar on “Network of Implementation Science Hubs” on December 18th, 2025.