Kevin L Ard

Biographic Data

ID6076758
NAMEKevin L Ard
GIVEN NAMESKevin L
FAMILY NAMEArd
SIGNATUREARD K L
AFFILIATIONSHarvard Medical School
ORCID0000-0003-2421-4559
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Evaluation of a National Interdisciplinary Educational Intervention to Optimize Comprehensive HIV Care

    Abigail W Batchelder, Kira Emsbo et al.ARTICLEAIDS Education2026

    This study evaluated the acceptability and perceived impact of a three-session national HIV education program integrating biomedical advances, team-based care, and stigma reduction strategies. Using a mixed-methods pre-post design, participants completed surveys assessing perceived knowledge, utility of training, planned actions, and ability to support virologic suppression. Participants reported significant increases in perceived knowledge acros…

  • “I’m a really hard stick”

    Open AccessMatthew A Adan, Christina Psaros et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2025

    Suffolk County, Massachusetts is an Ending the HIV Epidemic priority area with an ongoing cluster of HIV transmission among people who inject drugs, many of whom accessed care in emergency departments prior to diagnosis but were not offered HIV testing. Emergency-department-based HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis initiation have thus become local public health priorities. We conducted a content analysis of in-depth interviews with 26 peopl…

  • Swiping right on PrEP

    Open AccessMatthew A Adan, Christina Psaros et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2024

    Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Given that over 70% of MSM meet sexual partners via dating apps, such apps may be an effective platform for promoting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use. We aimed to describe preferences among MSM for PrEP advertisements displayed on dating apps. We conducted individual in-depth interviews with 16 MSM recruited from a mobile sexual health unit in Boston, Massachusetts. T…

  • Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Persistence at a Diverse Sexual Health Clinic

    Open AccessLaura Platt, F M Shebl et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted health care delivery and exacerbated disparities. Many sexual health clinics transitioned to telemedicine, including for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients at an urban sexual health clinic to assess the likelihood and predictors of PrEP persistence in the year following PrEP initiation. We compared patients starting PrEP in the four months preceding the first CO…

  • A Pilot Sexual and Gender Minority Health Curriculum for the Largest Public Health Care System in the United States

    Open AccessKevin L Ard, Hilary Goldhammer et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022

  • Health Outcomes of Obtaining Housing Among Older Homeless Adults

    Rebecca T Brown, Yinghui Miao et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2015Cited by: 5References: 37

    Objectives. We determined the impact of obtaining housing on geriatric conditions and acute care utilization among older homeless adults. Methods. We conducted a 12-month prospective cohort study of 250 older homeless adults recruited from shelters in Boston, Massachusetts, between January and June 2010. We determined housing status at follow-up, determined number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations over 12 months, and examined 4 …