Dr. Bogart Laura M.

A social psychologist with more than 25 years of experience in HIV research, including behavioral factors in HIV prevention and treatment adherence (e.g., HIV stigma, social support), and methodological expertise in community-based participatory research and mixed methods for implementation science. I lead and co-lead NIH-funded studies in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, Dr. Laura is an MPI of an R34 that developed implementation strategies for PrEP for fisherfolk in Uganda (with the proposed study team, including MPI Wanyenze); this work was based on our R21 study that tested different implementation strategies for community-based HIV testing for fisherfolk. In Uganda, Dr. Laura is also co-leading an R01 that is an RCT of “Game Changers,” an intervention to empower and mobilize people with HIV to be agents for HIV prevention and behavioral change in their social networks in Uganda, with the goal of reducing HIV stigma and improving social network members’ HIV prevention behaviors; this research led to a newly funded implementation science R01 (with Wagner and Wanyenze) testing implementation of a similar intervention model for cervical cancer screening in Uganda. She is also a Co-I (and qualitative lead) on an R01 study of the implementation of South Africa’s Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution Program for HIV treatment. She currently has NIH R01-funded RCTs of behavioral HIV interventions in the U.S, including two RCTs that are addressing coping with intersectional stigma and discrimination among Black and Latino sexual minority men, with a focus on wellness and health promotion (including HIV prevention and treatment adherence). She led intervention development and two RCTs (an R21 and two R01s) of Rise, a culturally congruent Motivational Interviewing-based HIV treatment adherence intervention for Black Americans, which is listed in the CDC’s Compendium on Evidence-Based Interventions and Best Practices for HIV Prevention. A new Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) supplement grant is developing an implementation toolkit for Rise.