Below is the official 2022 USCHA conference agenda.
For any questions please contact conferences@nmac.org.
Dates Subject to Change.
All Times Eastern Standard Time
| 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Registration |
| 7:30 am - 5:00 pm | Registration |
| 8:00 am - 11:00 am | Institutes • MY FAITH. MY STORY. Screening and Discussion (Balm in Gilead Institute) • U=U + You: How to leverage U=U to improve quality of life for people living with HIV (PAC institute) • Upgrading the TGNC Movement: Getting Closer to Trans Liberation (TGNC Institute) • The National Hispanic/Latinx Health Leadership Network Institute • Clinical Updates on Monkeypox - What you Need to Know (ANAC Institute) • Housing Strategies to End the HIV Epidemic (NHAC Institute) • The State of the Transmen and Transmasculine Community • Legends, Statements and Stars: The House and Ballroom Community • Intersection of HIV/AIDS and Substance Use: Barriers to Treatment Access |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 11:30 am - 1:30 pm | Plenary Session |
| 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm | Session 1 Workshops • Community Engagement’s Role in Ending the HIV Epidemic in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program • Aligning SAMHSA’s Programming with the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and EHE • Navigating Racism with HIV Organizations: From Surviving to Thriving in a Predominately White Institution • Community Theology - A Collection of Theological Thoughts that Shape the Consciousness of Individuals in Communities • “One-stop Shop”, Prevención, Enlace y trastornos por consumo de sustancias • Addressing the Lack of Advocacy for Transmen /Transmasculine in Healthcare • Addressing The Trauma of LGBTQ Identity Development in Affirming Care • Anti-Racist Creative Arts that uplift Black, Indigenous, Latinx LGBTQ+ Communities • Breast & Chest Feeding Guidelines: Race, Gender and Criminalization • Community Mobilization for People Aging with HIV in Cleveland, OH • Project REACT: A Community Response to COVID-19, HIV, and Hep-C • Research 101: From lab to community - Injectable PrEP • Status Neutral Biomedical HIV Prevention: Voices from the Ground • Stigma Fighters: Ending the Epidemic by removing HIV-related Stigma • Strategies to Enhance Linkage to Care for Justice Involved PWH • Take Control with PrEP: an intervention for Women of Color • Using Data for Action: Achieving Equity in PrEP Use |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Session 2 Workshops • Leveraging Data and Optimizing Dissemination in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program • Taking a Harm Reduction Approach to Preventing Substance Use and HIV • Addressing Employment Needs in Holistic Public Health Responses to HIV • Mental Health of People with Vertically Acquired HIV • Adapting an HIV community-level intervention to improve COVID-19 vaccination uptake • Boosting PrEP: Leveraging EHE to Expand Access and Workforce Capacity • Engaging Asian and Pacific Islander MSM Community in HIV Prevention • From Promise to Practice: Operationalizing Racial Justice in HIV • La Vergüenza Tóxica de la Jotería • Low Health Literacy Patient Portal: Ryan White Bergen-Passaic SPNS Initiative • Planning in Partnership: RWPA Improving Care for PWH with SMI • Project Innovate: Building Entrepreneurs to End the HIV Epidemic • The Emerging Role of Pharmacies in Expanding Access to PrEP • Thriving beyond 50 and Black. It's Healthy, Possible, Bold, Beautiful. • Trauma Informed Practices for Survivors of IPV living with HIV • Woke Research: Efforts to Ensure Meaningful Inclusion • We've Been Here Before! Applying Lessons Learned to Address the Southern Syndemic |
| 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm | Affinity Session |
| 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Welcome Reception |
| 8:00 am – 5:00 pm | Registration |
| 8:00 am - 11:00 am | Institutes • The Academy’s HIV Prevention and Treatment Updates for General Learners • Long-Acting HIV Treatment And Prevention Regimens: Present And Future • Elevating the Rights and Needs of People Living with HIV • Ending the HIV Epidemic by Cultivating Equity- and Community-Focused Leadership (Presented by AIDS United) • Holo Ana: The Diaspora of Pacific Island People and Our Future • Thriving with Indigenous Resilience • “Superando COVID-19 en la comunidad latinx con un enfoque en Puerto Rico (Overcoming COVID-19 in The Latinx Community with a Focus in Puerto Rico”) • Film Screenings and Discussions: Two Powerful Mini-Documentaries - Surviving Voices and the Critical Issues Facing Black and Transgender Communities • Not Your Average Adobo: Transforming Traditions • What's Left, and What's Next: Exploring the Viability and Future of Black Led Community-Based Organizations • Are we listening? Language, Justice, and HIV: Workshop + Community Forum • The Legacy In Listening To Black Women: An International Listening Session for Black Women and Women of Color to Unpack Unspoken Narratives Around Body Autonomy and Sexual Health • Monkey Pox Institute |
| 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 11:30 am - 1:30 pm | Plenary Session |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Poster Presentations • A Critical-Cultural Analysis of Testing Makes Us Stronger Health Campaign • Acceptability and Implementation of a Teen PrEP Social Marketing Campaign • Black Women's Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-efficacy, & Willingness to Use PrEP • Covid-19 protocol impact on HIV engagement in care program recruitment • Culturally Attuned Education Through the Use of e-Learning Modules • Developing and Implementing Inclusive and Anti-Racist Communication Strategies • Expanding Rapid ART in San Juan: Implementing Clinic Capacity Assessments • Factors associated with PrEP-related behaviors among gender non-conforming adults • Healing Together: Our Collective Experience of Overcoming Trauma • HIV Care Outcomes Among Transgender Women With Diagnosed HIV, 2015–2019 • HIV Risk Perception among Heterosexuals in Puerto Rico • HIV Stigma, Immigration Status, and Attitudes Toward HIV Testing • HIV-Related Stigma Reduction Programs for HIV Healthcare Providers Remain Limited • Hope&Healing: HIV/SUD Treatment to Homeless LGBTQIA+ Young Adults During COVID • HUD's Outreach on HIV Housing Discrimination • Know Who I am?!: Gender Dysphoria, HIV in Transgender Girls • Knowledge of HPV and anal cancer among people with HIV • Long-Acting Injectables: A Community Health Center Pilot • MSM Recruitment and Interviewing Strategies for HIV Research • Perceived health effects of marijuana use among PLWH during COVID-19 • Rapid linkage to HIV care among persons diagnosed with HIV • Reimagining the HIV Continuum of Care: Prioritizing Mental Health • Sexual politics and activism in HIV/AIDS in Brazil • Social Networks, Stigma, HIV Risk Outcomes in African Immigrant Communities • Stigma, Representation, and Advocacy for BMSM with HIV • Usability Evaluation of a Mental Health Resource Chatbot (Tabatha-YYC) |
| 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Session 3 Workshops • New Era to Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative – CDC/Division of HIV Prevention Update • The Mental Health of People Living with HIV/AIDS; Addressing the Impacts of Trauma and Stigma for Long-Term Survivors • Brave Talks: Pushing Past Health Inequity, Stigma and Medical Mistrust on the Road to Self-Advocacy • Housing as Healthcare: A nuts & Bolts Approach • A National Program for PrEP Access: A Movement to Cover Costs and Increase Demand for Uninsured and Underinsured Patients • Risk To Reasons: Reframing HIV Prevention for Black Women • Nothing about us, without us’: Leading DEI in the Workplace • Social Determinants of HOPE/HEALTH: Achieving Equitable Outcomes Among Key Populations • Changing the narrative: Rebranding PrEP • Combating Racial Bias 101: HIV Services x TGNC Community • De-criminalizing HIV transmission in Illinois: Using community-centered and data-informed strategies • LGBT+ older adults living with HIV in Puerto Rico • Preventive Care Needs for HIV Positive Individuals Transitioning from Incarceration • Project PODER: Houston Health Department HIV Cluster Detection and Response • Status Neutrality: Getting Organizations to the End of the Epidemic • TelePrEP Within REACH: Innovatively Connecting Our Community to Preventative Services • Transforming Work Culture: Trauma-Informed Leadership with Accountability |
| 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm | Session 4 Workshops • Media Advocacy: Using the News to Achieve Your Goals • Effective Strategies for Developing HIV Prevention and Treatment Messages for Gay Men: A Perspective from Puerto Rican Activists • Feelin' Myself: Affirming Youth Power against HIV/AIDS in the Yay Area!!! • 340 Getting to Zero: USVI Health and HIV Equity Summit • A Public Health Solution for Non-Clinic-Based, Self-Collect STI/HIV Testing • An Emergency Department Collaboration to Help End the HIV Epidemic • Be the Change You Seek: Ending Criminalization of HIV • Comparing Multiple HIV Testing Service Delivery Models During a Pandemic • Empoderando Trabajadoras Sexuales en la frontera: del Sur de Texas • HIV Outbreaks and Unstable Housing: Integrating Housing Services Into Response • HIV Vaccine Research: What’s it all about? • HPTN 094: Community Engagement for Mobilizing Healthcare Services for PWID • Is Funding Equitable? • Present and Future: A Discussion of the NIH HIV Research Program followed by an NIH OAR Listening Session • Optimizing Electronic Medical Records to Tell Your HIV Testing Story • When PLHIV Consider Working: Earnings and Public Benefits Interactions • Division of HIV Prevention Listening Session for Health Department Partners |
| 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Affinity Session |
| 9:00 am - 3:00 pm | Registration |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Session 5 Workshops • Who's Driving the Bus? Policy Priorities Among Highly Impacted Communities • Public Health Education & Coaching to Empower Youth: Case Report Series • HIV long-term survivorship: 50s, 60s and beyond • Health Insurance Issues Challenging the End of the HIV Epidemic • Community Theology: The Work Group • "You Still There?”: Getting to Zero Through Engaging Online Trainings • Expanding Syringe Services Program Capacity to Respond to COVID-19 • How to be a Competitive Applicant for HOPWA Funding • Innovations in HIV Care for Unsheltered People who Inject Drugs • Let’s Talk About...Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women with HIV • My Voice, Our Story: NJ uses storytelling to EHE • PrEParando el camino para el acceso y retención a PrEP • The Black & Trans Masculine Experience: Barriers to Healthcare • Where Things Stand: Federal Harm Reduction Policy • I Have Something to Tell You . . . Technology & Partner Notification • Utilization Management When "Cost Containment" Equals "Care Containment" • Happenings in HBV and Tale from the Field |
| 10:00 am – 5:00 pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 11:30 am – 1:30 pm | Plenary Session |
| 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Poster Presentations • Acceptability and Implementation of a Teen PrEP Social Marketing Campaign • Black Women's Knowledge, Attitudes, Self-efficacy, & Willingness to Use PrEP • Covid-19 protocol impact on HIV engagement in care program recruitment • Culturally Attuned Education Through the Use of e-Learning Modules • Developing and Implementing Inclusive and Anti-Racist Communication Strategies • Expanding Rapid ART in San Juan: Implementing Clinic Capacity Assessments • Factors associated with PrEP-related behaviors among gender non-conforming adults • Healing Together: Our Collective Experience of Overcoming Trauma • HIV Care Outcomes Among Transgender Women With Diagnosed HIV, 2015–2019 • HIV Risk Perception among Heterosexuals in Puerto Rico • HIV Stigma, Immigration Status, and Attitudes Toward HIV Testing • HIV-Related Stigma Reduction Programs for HIV Healthcare Providers Remain Limited • Hope&Healing: HIV/SUD Treatment to Homeless LGBTQIA+ Young Adults During COVID • HUD's Outreach on HIV Housing Discrimination • Know Who I am?!: Gender Dysphoria, HIV in Transgender Girls • Knowledge of HPV and anal cancer among people with HIV • Long-Acting Injectables: A Community Health Center Pilot • MSM Recruitment and Interviewing Strategies for HIV Research • Perceived health effects of marijuana use among PLWH during COVID-19 • Rapid linkage to HIV care among persons diagnosed with HIV • Reimagining the HIV Continuum of Care: Prioritizing Mental Health • Sexual politics and activism in HIV/AIDS in Brazil • Social Networks, Stigma, HIV Risk Outcomes in African Immigrant Communities • Stigma, Representation, and Advocacy for BMSM with HIV • Usability Evaluation of a Mental Health Resource Chatbot (Tabatha-YYC) |
| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Session 6 Workshops • In Your Meeting You Said, "Data to Care": What happened? • Federal Advocacy for Harm Reduction Through an Infectious Disease Lens • Expresate, an educational campaign about mental health. • Centering Patient Voices to Implement Rapid ART in RWHAP-Funded Settings • Estrategias de prevención en el cuidado medico de VIH (PrEP/PEP) • My life’s in a suitcase; my pills are an afterthought • It’s Not Rocket Science: How to Easily Explain Research Findings • Equity, Innovation, and Synergy: Building Connections for EHE • End HIV Stigma: Through the Lens • Back to the Future: Modernizing Old School Outreach • CBO-Partnered TelePrEP: Reaching Diverse Priority Populations with Competent PrEP Care • Protect Black Women: Health Equity Through Anti-Racist Clinical Care • Staying Nimble and Adaptable- ways to ensure continuum of care • What Does Healing Look Like For Transgender Women of Color? • Where Do Leaders GLOW: The Role of Whole Person Health, Women In Leadership and Ending The H.I.V. Epidemic • Making Room for Our Multiple Needs: Elevating the Importance of HIV Care Amid Competing Public Health Crises • Looking Across the Hepatitis Elimination Timeline |
| 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm | Session 7 Workshops • Health Inequities Affecting the Transmasculine Population • From Trauma To Triumph: Courageous Storytelling At The Intersections Of HIV And Faith • Launching a Digital Portal for Chicago’s HIV HUB: Lessons Learned • LGBTQI+ Trauma Informed Spiritually Integrative Mental Health and Healing. • Politics of Federal HIV Funding – Challenges, Opportunities, & Advocacy • Reclaiming Sexual Power: Discussing Sexualized Racism and other Sexual Biases • Reframing the Continuum of Care in the Context of COVID • Storytelling to Amplify Visibility in Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ Communities • The House and Ball Culture & HIV| Access Granted • The Unique Perspectives of PLWHIV Since Birth or Early Childhood • HOPWA Trends and Updates • Aging, Long-Term Survivors (LTS) and HIV: Public Policy and Advocacy • FEMME POWER: Navigating a World That Wasn’t Made for Us • Combatting the Syndemic of HIV & Hepatitis in West Virginia • ESCALATE: Stigma Reduction as an Approach to Ending the HIV Epidemic • Tackling Hepatitis through Syndemic Approaches |
| 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Affinity Session |
| 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm | Monkeypox Town Hall |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Session 8 Workshops • Homecoming: Finding Dignity in Release and Community Re-entry • Looking Back, Around, & Ahead: An Intergenerational Conversation Between HIV Treatment and Prevention Activists • Skills Elevation Session: an open dialogue about transmasculine identities • Division of HIV Prevention Community Engagement Session in Spanish • The Impact of COVID-19 on Black MSM PrEP Users • Engaging Youth in Ending the HIV Epidemic • Hard-to-reach vs Hardly reached populations in HIV research • Healing Together 2 - Busting Stigma & Mental Health • Implementing HIV/STI home testing: Lessons Learned from TakeMeHome • PEP - The Rodney Dangerfield of HIV Prevention • PrEP and U=U: Friends or Frenemies? • Separating Sex Work and Human Trafficking in Federal Policy • Strategic Grantmaking in Appalachia to Combat HIV • System Coordination Provider Approach for the Advancement of EHE • Trauma Informed HIV Care for Asylum-Seeking Women, Children and Youth • TWIST: Peer Lead Intervention for Transgender Women Living with HIV • Words Matter: Facilitating equitable, respectful, and dignified language |
| 11:30 am - 1:30 pm | Closing Plenary |
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