Amy Johnson, PhD
MSW Research Assistant Professor
Lurie Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

David Moskowitz, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Social Sciences
Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing Northwestern University

Monday, September 21, 2020
12–1 p.m. CT
Livestream Only
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Drs. Amy Johnson and David Moskowitz will present the results of their Third Coast CFAR pilot projects.

“In the Loop: Development of a Mobile App to Increase PrEP Awareness among Young Black Women”

Amy K. Johnson, PhD, is a research assistant professor in The Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Lurie Children’s and Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Johnson has advanced training in program evaluation, quantitative and qualitative analysis. In addition, Dr. Johnson has a background in social work and therefore brings a strengths-based trauma-informed approach to her research and evaluation work. Dr. Johnson’s primary area of expertise and interest lies in applied HIV and STI prevention and care intervention research. Her work focuses on high priority areas of HIV intervention implementation, risk assessment and developing/assessing prevention packages, as well as in adolescent sexual health.

“Prepping Parents for PrEP (P3): Exploring parental attitudes towards PrEP for their teenagers”

David A. Moskowitz, PhD, (he/him) is a research assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University, an ISGMH core faculty member, and the project director of SMART project. He received his doctorate from Northwestern University in Communication Studies (Health). Before coming to ISGHM, he trained as an NIH postdoctoral fellow at the Center for AIDS Intervention Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin, taught as an assistant professor of Health Communication at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and as an associate professor of Epidemiology and Community Health at the New York Medical College. In terms of research, Dr. Moskowitz has published many articles on risk-taking behaviors among men who have sex with men, gay and bisexual male health, and the development and maintenance of gay male sexual identities. He is also known for his research into gay male social subcultures. At ISGHM, he will turn his focus towards the role and use of internet-mediated communication to delivery targeted HIV-prevention messages to adolescent gay and bisexual youth.

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