- Research team: Principal investigator Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Funding sponsors: UTHealth School of Public Health ($30,000); Nursing Science Incubator for Social Determinants of Health Solutions (N-SISS) fellowship, Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Solutions ($5,000); Advancing Research Education on the Health of New Americans program at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing ($4,500).
- Overview: Surveys will be used, followed by body mapping and one-on-one interviews, to learn more about the experiences of people who have lived with HIV 10 years or more (long-term survivors) and those who were born with the virus (lifetime survivors).
- Budget: $39,500
- Project period: 2026-2027
HIV/STI prevention among Spanish-speakers in Houston, Texas
- Research team: Primary investigator Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, PhD, RN
- Overview: The project aims will employ a Spanish-language survey and group conversations to assess HIV knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes of people served by Fundación Latino Americana de Acción Social in Houston.
- Funding sponsor: Texas Development Center for AIDS Research
- Project period: 2025-2026
- Budget: $50,000
Recently completed
Challenges in Transit Migration: Ethnographic Insights into Human Trafficking, Violence, and HIV
- Research team: Primary investigator Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, PhD, RN
- Overview: The project aims to develop a data-driven framework for targeted HIV-prevention interventions that consider cultural and technological factors through in-depth interviews and participant observations at shelters along four key migration routes through Mexico.
- Funding sponsor: Office of Global Health Initiatives at UTHealth Houston
- Project period: 1, 2024-Aug. 31, 2025
- Budget: $11,500
