Developing Android, iOS Apps for Mobile-Enhanced Prevention Support (MEPS) for Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Women (TW) Leaving Jail in South Los Angeles in the USA.

MSM and TW personnel, who underwent criminal justice involvement (CJI) in the USA, have a particularly high HIV burden. The post-incarceration period following community reentry is critical for addressing potential risks of HIV/STI acquisition and negative sequelae of substance use. To address this scenario, we designed a new intervention that includes a GPS based mobile app (called GeoPass), peer support and incentives for promoting the use of HIV prevention, substance use treatment, and related services.

Individualized Web-Based Attention Training With Evidence-Based Counseling to Address HIV Treatment Adherence and Psychological Distress: Exploratory Cohort Study.

Background: The prevalence of mood, trauma, and stressor-related disorders is disproportionately higher among people living with HIV than among individuals without the virus. Poor adherence to HIV treatment and heightened psychological distress have been linked to symptoms associated with these disorders.

Objective: The objective of this exploratory pilot study was to develop and implement an intervention that combined individualized web-based attention training with evidence-based counseling to promote HIV treatment adherence and reduce psychological distress among people living with HIV.

Mobile-Enhanced Prevention Support Study for Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women Leaving Jail: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women, particularly those who have experienced criminal justice involvement, have particularly high HIV burdens, and a majority of those in jail have substance use disorders (SUDs). MSM and transgender women also experience elevated rates of incarceration. Once community re-entry occurs, individuals are in a critical period for addressing potential risks of HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) acquisition and negative sequelae of substance use.

Developing a Biomedical Information System for Clinical Assessments and Interventions of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Patients Belonging to YMSM of Color with HIV Using Multidimensional Scaling Analysis and Paired Comparisons Techniques.

In mental health and substance abuse treatment, individualized assessments provide information on the specific thoughts and cognitive processes influencing a person's behavior, emotional responses, and psychological functioning. Given the lack of automated assessment procedures or individualized clinical interventions in the growing health disparities in the South Los Angeles of USA, we developed a novel system using idiographic techniques to automatically and quickly generate individualized patient assessment data for use in clinical interventions.

Designing an Innovative Data Architecture for the Los Angeles Data Resource (LADR).

The Los Angeles Data Resource (LADR) is a joint project of major Los Angeles health care provider organizations. The LADR helps clinical investigators to explore the size of potential research study cohorts using operational clinical data across all participating institutions. The Charles R.

A biomedical information system for retrieval and manipulation of NHANES data.

The retrieval and manipulation of data from large public databases like the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) may require sophisticated statistical software and significant expertise that may be unavailable in the university setting.

CEDRIC: a computerized chronic disease management system for urban, safety net clinics.

To meet the challenge of improving health care quality in urban, medically underserved areas of the US that have a predominance of chronic diseases such as diabetes, we have developed a new information system called CEDRIC for managing chronic diseases. CEDRIC was developed in collaboration with clinicians at an urban safety net clinic, using a community-participatory partnered research approach, with a view to addressing the particular needs of urban clinics with a high physician turnover and large uninsured/underinsured patient population. The pilot implementation focuses on diabetes management.