About the INSHHR group
The Interdisciplinary Sexual Health and HIV Research (INSHHR) group was formed in 2014 by School of Nursing clinical and research faculty, postdocs, and PhD students. Our mission was to pool and leverage investigator diversity, creativity, experience, and skills across multiple disciplines to increase innovation, productivity, and impact in the conduct of primary research aimed at improving sexual health and HIV-related outcomes with a focus on marginalized and vulnerable populations.
Our collective vision is to advance sexual health and HIV science that ameliorates sexual health-related issues and has an impact on ending the HIV epidemic nationally and globally.
The biopsychosocial organization of sexual health, sexuality, gender relations, sexual identity and orientation, and concomitant power inequality, social and economic marginalization, and health disparities, informs the basic behavioral science, health services research, and intervention implementation work conducted by members of the INSHHR group. In addition, we recognize and embrace the power of communities to drive real world action in response to public health concerns and inequities.
Join Us
The INSHHR group encourages qualified candidates working in the field of sexual health and/or HIV science to apply for an open fellowship position. Interested candidates can reach out to one of our members to discuss the program and potential mentorship.
INSHHR Faculty & Students
Natalie Leblanc, PhD, MPH, RN, BSN
Chair, Interdisciplinary Sexual Health & HIV Research group
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Harriet J. Kitzman Endowed Fellow in Health Disparities
James McMahon, PhD
Endowed Chair for Innovation in Health Care
Co-Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Function, CTSI
Professor, School of Nursing
Danielle C. Alcéna-Stiner, PhD, RN
Asst. Director, Life Sciences Learning Center, URMC
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Gamji Rabiu Abu-Ba’are, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor & Inaugural Harriet J. Kitzman Endowed Fellow in Global Health Research, School of Nursing
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Paula Amina Alio, Ph.D.
Faculty, Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester
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