Recorded AIDS Seminar: HIV Molecular Surveillance in New Hampshire (6.9.25)
Description
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Recorded on June 9, 2025.
Title: HIV Molecular Surveillance in New Hampshire
Speakers:
Rachel Schubert Kusch, MA
Linkage to Care Program Manager
Infectious Disease Prevention, Investigation, and Care Services Section
Bureau of Infectious Disease Control
Division of Public Health Services
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
Kendall Vaughan, MPH
HIV Epidemiologist
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
Description: Overview of HIV molecular surveillance in New Hampshire to explain what HIV molecular surveillance is and how individual genetic sequences are sent to public health, processed, analyzed, and interpreted for cluster detection and potential public health response. This foundation of molecular surveillance will then be practically applied via presentation of a cluster case study demonstrating the integration of HIV surveillance with prevention and detail the challenges associated with the patient-level public health response to a cluster among those experiencing specific contextual factors.
No Accreditation for Recorded or Archived events.
Intended Audience
Largely clinical staff including attending physicians, nurses, fellows, and mental health providers.
Targeted Populations
A variety of the listed populations will be discussed at this event.
- Young Adults (ages 18 to 24)
- Older Adults (ages 50 and over)
- People Experiencing Homlessness
- People with Incarceration Experience
- People Who Inject Drugs (PWID)
Materials
Topics
A variety of the listed topics will be discussed at this event.
- Behavioral Prevention
- Harm Reduction/Safe Injection
- HIV Transmission Risk Assessment
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Treatment as Prevention (e.g., U=U)
- Sexual Health History Taking
- Antiretroviral treatment adherence, including viral load suppression
- Basic science
- HIV diagnosis (i.e. HIV testing)
- HIV Epidemiology
- HIV monitoring and lab tests (i.e. CD4 ad viral load)
- HIV resistance testing and interpretation
- Linkage to Care
- Retention and/or re-engagement in care
- Hepatitis C
- Substance use disorders
- Opioid use disorder
- Health literacy
- Low English proficiency
- Stigma or discrimination
- Cultural Competency/Cultural Humility
- Case management
- Community linkages
- Confidentiality/HIPAA
- Care coordination
- Health care coverage (i.e., Affordable Care Act, health insurance exchanges, managed care)
- Trauma-informed care