Amy K Johnson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 152124 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy K Johnson |
| NOMBRES | Amy K |
| APELLIDO | Johnson |
| FIRMA | JOHNSON A K |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4247-455X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Trusted Spaces, New Services
Pre-Exposure prophylaxis knowledge, use and adherence among a US national sample of women
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a proven strategy for HIV prevention, yet uptake among women vulnerable to HIV remains low. This study draws on survey data and urine-based adherence testing from the American Women Assessing Risk Epidemiologically (AWARE) study to assess PrEP knowledge, use, and adherence in a behaviorally vulnerable sample. Despite high awareness of PrEP, actual use and willingness to consider PrEP were minimal. Objective adhe…
We can’t help who we love
Relationship dynamics can influence sexual health outcomes and may affect engagement with HIV prevention strategies. This qualitative study explored how women's perceived relationship dynamics impacted their HIV prevention strategies, including condom and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) use, and HIV testing. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 women at higher risk of HIV acquisition and 40 women living with HIV in the USA, recruited…
Highlighting the Need for Representation of Black Women in PrEP Marketing and Educational Efforts
Women reported minimal representation and knowledge regarding PrEP, yet demonstrated high interest in learning more about PrEP and sharing that information with others. Black women must be featured prominently in mainstream PrEP advertisements and PrEP educational materials and included by providers in discussions about PrEP. Increasing funding and support for these efforts will be instrumental to promote PrEP uptake among Black women and to redu…
Centering PrEP
In direct alignment with community empowerment, we followed the ADAPT-ITT framework, phases 1-6, to iteratively adapt Centering Healthcare to suit the stated HIV Prevention and PrEP care needs of sex workers in Chicago. The study represents the first time the first time Centering has been adapted to suit the HIV prevention and PrEP care needs of sex workers. Addressing a gap in HIV prevention care for sex workers, Centering PrEP harnesses the pow…
Protocol
Innovative and culturally sensitive strategies to improve access to HIV prevention and treatment services for cisgender women are vital to curb the burden of the HIV epidemic for this key population. Findings from this study will inform future research, intervention strategies, and public policies
Title IX Experiences of Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Chicago
BACKGROUND: Under Title IX, pregnant and/or parenting students (PPY) are protected from discrimination and are required to receive equal access to education. This study examines the implementation of Title IX, investigating whether Title IX rights are upheld for pregnant and/or parenting students attending Chicago Public Schools (CPS) using qualitative research methods. METHODS: Stakeholder interviews with pregnant and/or parenting students and s…
Experiences of Sex Workers in Chicago during Covid-19
COVID-19 exacerbated health disparities, financial insecurity, and occupational safety for many within marginalized populations. This study, which took place between 2019 and 2022, aimed to explore the way in which sex workers ( n = 36) in Chicago were impacted by COVID-19. We analyzed the transcripts of 36 individual interviews with a diverse group of sex workers using thematic analysis. Five general themes emerged regarding the detrimental impa…
Settler Sensibilities and Environmental Change
Malaria eradication arrived in Nepal in the 1950s as part of a global initiative to make malarial landscapes available for land reclamation and universal settlement. This article situates period reports from World Health Organization personnel involved in the Nepal Malaria Eradication Organization alongside testimonies from two malaria eradication workers from the country's Farwestern Tarai region to disentangle the socioecological and political …
A Community-Informed Approach to Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-Out in Under-served Areas in Chicago
The availability of the COVID-19 vaccine in the US created an urgent need for strategies to achieve widespread vaccine distribution, but approaches to achieving equitable distribution, including reaching communities of color, varied across the country. To add to the knowledge base around targeted vaccine roll-out among underserved communities, the current study presents results from patient vaccination data and staff interviews conducted at Sinai…
Informing the future of PrEP navigation
The PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) Implementation, Data to Care and Evaluation (PrIDE) demonstration project funded 12 health departments (HD) (2016-2019) to scale up PrEP among sexual minorities at risk for HIV. Each health department (HD) conducted an evaluation of at least one local strategy, and, to maximize crossvalidation, an adapted cluster evaluation approach was employed. As a result, five HDs with similar evaluation questions regarding…
Implementation and evaluation of patient navigation in Chicago
Supporting Retention in HIV Care
Culturally Safe Nursing Care for Black Sex Workers in the Greater Chicago Area, 2020‒2021
Complex structural and social factors have created health inequities for Black sex workers. Black people, including those engaged in transactional sex, report leaning on spiritual beliefs to guide health-related decision-making, including whether to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Public health nurses can improve the health of Black sex workers through culturally safe care, which may include a community-stated vision of spiritual support. (Am J Public …
Monkeypox Prevention and Protecting Sex Workers
HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use and Persistence among Black Ciswomen
Salud y Orgullo Mexicano
This manuscript documents the development of an innovative individual-level peer navigation intervention "Salud y Orgullo Mexicano" (SOM) designed to increase linkage and retention to HIV care for Mexican men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chicago, Illinois. The intervention was developed via a modified intervention mapping process. Elements of two existing interventions were combined and refined with input from the Mexican MSM community, includi…
Evaluating the Impact of In-Home Behavioral Health Services on Housing First Residents' Emergency Room and Inpatient Utilization
Individuals experiencing chronic homelessness are highly marginalized and frequently access acute healthcare services. This program evaluation used secondary data collected from adults experiencing chronic homelessness (n=133) who participated in a Housing First program offering in-home behavioral health services within a large Midwestern city. Participant demographics (e.g., gender, race, age) and data on health factors (e.g., substance misuse a…
Patterns of Exposure to Socio-structural Stressors and HIV Care Engagement Among Transgender Women of Color
Club Fit
Evidence of Social and Structural Covid-19 Disparities by Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Race/Ethnicity in an Urban Environment
Covid-19 Prevention and Protecting Sex Workers
Awareness and Intent to Use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among African American Women in a Family Planning Clinic
Evaluation of Translife Care
Empowerment Evaluation
HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions, but have largely overlooked the complex envi…
Evidence of Social and Structural Covid-19 Disparities by Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Race/Ethnicity in an Urban Environment
Syndemic Theory and HIV-Related Risk Among Young Transgender Women
Objectives. We assessed whether multiple psychosocial factors are additive in their relationship to sexual risk behavior and self-reported HIV status (i.e., can be characterized as a syndemic) among young transgender women and the relationship of indicators of social marginalization to psychosocial factors. Methods. Participants (n = 151) were aged 15 to 24 years and lived in Chicago or Los Angeles. We collected data on psychosocial factors (low …
Exploring Factors That Underlie Racial/Ethnic Disparities in HIV Risk among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
Life Skills
Covid-19 Prevention and Protecting Sex Workers
Supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals
Chronically homeless individuals often have extensive health, mental health and psychosocial needs that pose barriers to obtaining and maintain supportive housing. This study aims to qualitatively explore supportive housing providers' experiences and challenges with housing chronically homeless individuals and examine opportunities to improve supportive housing systems of care. In 2014, we conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with 65 program…
Awareness and Intent to Use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among African American Women in a Family Planning Clinic
Settler Sensibilities and Environmental Change
Malaria eradication arrived in Nepal in the 1950s as part of a global initiative to make malarial landscapes available for land reclamation and universal settlement. This article situates period reports from World Health Organization personnel involved in the Nepal Malaria Eradication Organization alongside testimonies from two malaria eradication workers from the country's Farwestern Tarai region to disentangle the socioecological and political …
Culturally Safe Nursing Care for Black Sex Workers in the Greater Chicago Area, 2020‒2021
Complex structural and social factors have created health inequities for Black sex workers. Black people, including those engaged in transactional sex, report leaning on spiritual beliefs to guide health-related decision-making, including whether to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Public health nurses can improve the health of Black sex workers through culturally safe care, which may include a community-stated vision of spiritual support. (Am J Public …
Empowerment Evaluation
HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions, but have largely overlooked the complex envi…
The MyPeeps Randomized Controlled Trial
Monkeypox Prevention and Protecting Sex Workers
Exploring Factors That Underlie Racial/Ethnic Disparities in HIV Risk among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
Perceived Likelihood of Using HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Medications Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
Life Skills
Syndemic Theory and HIV-Related Risk Among Young Transgender Women
Objectives. We assessed whether multiple psychosocial factors are additive in their relationship to sexual risk behavior and self-reported HIV status (i.e., can be characterized as a syndemic) among young transgender women and the relationship of indicators of social marginalization to psychosocial factors. Methods. Participants (n = 151) were aged 15 to 24 years and lived in Chicago or Los Angeles. We collected data on psychosocial factors (low …
‘Yes, I Am More than Just That’
Rates of HIV infection in the United States are markedly over-represented among gay/bisexual young men (GBYM), especially those who are African American and Latino. The degree to which minority stress may explain racial disparities in HIV incidence is understudied in GBYM. This qualitative study examined racial/ethnic-minority and sexual-minority stress and their perceived influence on HIV infection in a sample of GBYM living with HIV. Findings i…
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Personalized Text Message Reminders to Promote Medication Adherence Among HIV-Positive Adolescents and Young Adults
The MyPeeps Randomized Controlled Trial
Supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals
Chronically homeless individuals often have extensive health, mental health and psychosocial needs that pose barriers to obtaining and maintain supportive housing. This study aims to qualitatively explore supportive housing providers' experiences and challenges with housing chronically homeless individuals and examine opportunities to improve supportive housing systems of care. In 2014, we conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with 65 program…
Identifying variability in permanent supportive housing
Supportive housing has become the dominant model in the United States to provide housing to the chronically homeless and to improve their housing stability and health. Most supportive housing programs follow a "housing first" paradigm modeled after the Pathways to Housing program in New York City. However, components of housing first supportive housing models were poorly defined, and supportive models have varied considerably in their disseminati…
Empowerment Evaluation
HIV continues to significantly impact the health of communities, particularly affecting racially and ethnically diverse men who have sex with men and transgender women. In response, health departments often fund a number of community organizations to provide each of these subgroups with comprehensive and culturally responsive services. To this point, evaluators have focused on individual interventions, but have largely overlooked the complex envi…
Evaluation of Translife Care
Patterns of Exposure to Socio-structural Stressors and HIV Care Engagement Among Transgender Women of Color
Club Fit
Evidence of Social and Structural Covid-19 Disparities by Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Race/Ethnicity in an Urban Environment
Covid-19 Prevention and Protecting Sex Workers
Awareness and Intent to Use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among African American Women in a Family Planning Clinic
HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use and Persistence among Black Ciswomen
Salud y Orgullo Mexicano
This manuscript documents the development of an innovative individual-level peer navigation intervention "Salud y Orgullo Mexicano" (SOM) designed to increase linkage and retention to HIV care for Mexican men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chicago, Illinois. The intervention was developed via a modified intervention mapping process. Elements of two existing interventions were combined and refined with input from the Mexican MSM community, includi…
Evaluating the Impact of In-Home Behavioral Health Services on Housing First Residents' Emergency Room and Inpatient Utilization
Individuals experiencing chronic homelessness are highly marginalized and frequently access acute healthcare services. This program evaluation used secondary data collected from adults experiencing chronic homelessness (n=133) who participated in a Housing First program offering in-home behavioral health services within a large Midwestern city. Participant demographics (e.g., gender, race, age) and data on health factors (e.g., substance misuse a…
A Community-Informed Approach to Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-Out in Under-served Areas in Chicago
The availability of the COVID-19 vaccine in the US created an urgent need for strategies to achieve widespread vaccine distribution, but approaches to achieving equitable distribution, including reaching communities of color, varied across the country. To add to the knowledge base around targeted vaccine roll-out among underserved communities, the current study presents results from patient vaccination data and staff interviews conducted at Sinai…
Informing the future of PrEP navigation
The PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) Implementation, Data to Care and Evaluation (PrIDE) demonstration project funded 12 health departments (HD) (2016-2019) to scale up PrEP among sexual minorities at risk for HIV. Each health department (HD) conducted an evaluation of at least one local strategy, and, to maximize crossvalidation, an adapted cluster evaluation approach was employed. As a result, five HDs with similar evaluation questions regarding…
Implementation and evaluation of patient navigation in Chicago
Supporting Retention in HIV Care
Culturally Safe Nursing Care for Black Sex Workers in the Greater Chicago Area, 2020‒2021
Complex structural and social factors have created health inequities for Black sex workers. Black people, including those engaged in transactional sex, report leaning on spiritual beliefs to guide health-related decision-making, including whether to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Public health nurses can improve the health of Black sex workers through culturally safe care, which may include a community-stated vision of spiritual support. (Am J Public …
Monkeypox Prevention and Protecting Sex Workers
Medicine (29 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (19 obras) · Public health (19 obras) · Gerontology (18 obras) · Nursing (18 obras) · Family medicine (14 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Environmental health (12 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (11 obras)