Population and Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS Study Section – PPAH

Topics

• Studies examining health services, community, and structural factors that affect screening, testing, and access to and quality of care of those at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS.
• Epidemiologic studies of the incidence, prevalence, transmission, progression, prevention and treatment of HIV infection, including health disparities at the community, national, or international level.
• Dissemination and implementation science studies of HIV/AIDS-related prevention, screening, and treatment interventions.
• Studies examining models combining HIV and comorbidity care, i.e. for substance use, mental health, other noncommunicable diseases, or related infectious diseases in populations and communities.
• The development and testing of behavioral biostatistical methods to examine HIV infection, transmission, risk factors, disease progression and monitoring. Such methods include social network analysis, phylodynamic tracking, mathematical modeling, big data, and simulation/computational approaches

Shared Interests and Overlaps

There are shared interests in community-focused approaches and community-involved methodologies with Health Promotion for Communities. Applications that involve health services, health policy or epidemiological studies at the community level and that examine the transmission, screening, testing, service access, prevention, or treatment of HIV/AIDS are reviewed in PPAH. Non-HIV/AIDs applications proposing interventions with a community-oriented approach aimed at promoting health or moderating health risks in the general population or implemented in community organizations or other non-clinical settings (e.g., schools, worksites, service delivery organizations) are reviewed in HPC.

There are shared interests in studies of HIV prevention and care with HIV/AIDS Intra- and Inter-personal Determinants and Behavioral Interventions (HIBI). Applications that involve studies of interventions at the community or population level or larger scale implementation science studies are reviewed in PPAH. Applications addressing evaluations of HIV prevention or HIV care continuum interventions at the individual level, or developmental and/or small-scale implementation science studies to establish appropriate measures and/or care at the individual level, are reviewed in HIBI. Studies with a combination of both community and individual level interventions are assigned based on the principal outcomes of the proposed research. 

There are shared interests in epidemiological or clinical research studying the impact of HIV infection on health with HIV Comorbidities and Clinical Studies (HCCS). Epidemiological studies that focus on the social, behavioral, or economic determinants of HIV/AIDS and related comorbidities in communities or populations are reviewed in PPAH. Epidemiological studies focusing on physiological/biological processes and/or clinical epidemiology typically are reviewed in HCCS. 

There are shared interests in HIV co-infections and HIV associated cancers in human populations with HIV Coinfections and HIV Associated Cancers Study Section (HCAC). Applications that focus on population-level epidemiology or that employ behavioral measures and/or outcomes are reviewed in PPAH. Applications that involve basic biological/molecular studies, focus on physiological/biological processes and/or outcomes may be reviewed in HCAC.