Kimberly Hook
Harvard University, MA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Eastern Europe has the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the world, and Ukraine has one of the region's largest, with nearly 260,000 people with HIV (PWH). In 2020, only about half of Ukrainian PWH were taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), the daily medicine that controls the virus, and only about half had the virus suppressed.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Psychology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
people with HIV
Ukraine
Eastern Europe
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2028
What they work on
- Define the clinical and contextual factors needed to adapt the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA), a short multi-disorder talk therapy, for Ukrainian HIV clinics and to integrate the Life-Steps medication-adherence session.
- Determine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of adapted CETA plus Life-Steps for reducing depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress and improving HIV outcomes among people with HIV in Ukraine.
- Estimate potential mediators and moderators of the combined CETA plus Life-Steps intervention, to understand how and for whom it improves mental health and HIV outcomes.
More about the research
Mental disorders help explain this gap. Depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress are more common among PWH and are linked to missed medication and poor engagement in care. Treating them could improve both mental health and HIV outcomes.
Why it matters
Untreated depression, anxiety, and trauma symptoms can keep people with HIV from taking their medication and staying in care. A tested, clinic-based mental health treatment could improve both mental health and viral suppression among people with HIV in Ukraine. It could also inform HIV care in other under-resourced settings across Eastern Europe.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Vivian Go
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether the brief alcohol intervention (BAI), counseling based on Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, improves PrEP persistence and adherence in a randomized trial of 564 PrEP users with unhealthy drinking in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Lorra Garey
University of Houston, TX·Psychology
Refine a single-session, computer-delivered personalized feedback intervention (I-PFI) addressing drinking, mood and HIV health with 20 adults with HIV, using mixed methods to assess acceptability, clarity and relevance.
Corianna Sichel
Columbia University, NY·Psychology·Early-career
Conduct formative research with justice-involved youth who have posttraumatic stress, their caregivers, probation staff and community trauma providers, to identify barriers to trauma treatment.
The school
Harvard University: 42 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 712 research doctorates a year.
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