Harm Reduction: Impacting Stigma, Race, & Health

7^th International Conference on HIV/AIDS, STDs and STIs

March 18-19, 2019 | New York, USA

Moya Brown-Lopez

NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, USA

Keynote: J AIDS CLIN RES

Abstract :

This presentation will build participantsâ?? capacity to deliver health literate HIV services, with a particular focus on health services provided to racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse people living with or at risk for HIV. Participants will explore what health literacy means, how limited health literacy affects health outcomes, and how health literate approaches can be applied to improve communication with clients. Highlighted topics will address how to recognize indications that clients are experiencing challenges, the importance of organizational health literacy for clients, and steps participants and their organizations can take to promote health literacy and deliver health literate HIV services.

Biography :

Moya Brown-Lopez is a Maryland native and has been working in public health since 2002. She completed BS in Community Health Education at the University of Maryland at College Park and began working in HIV education and advocacy at Metro Teen AIDS in Washington, DC. In 2006, she moved to NYC to pursue an MPH at Columbia University and developed expertise in HIV prevention and harm reduction through work in youth development, substance use counseling, curriculum writing, and professional development training. She is also a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) and, most recently, completed an MS in Healthcare Delivery Leadership from the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in order to apply best practices in quality improvement to HIV prevention, care, and treatment.

E-mail: moya4901@yahoo.com