Summit VI
New Orleans, Louisiana
September 21-23, 2011
The 2011 North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit brought together 306 participants from eight countries, including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico. Summit VI was convened by the U.S. National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC), the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN), and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Academic partners included the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Tulane University of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (National Institute of Public Health).
Read the Summit Agenda
Summit Products
Summit VI Policy Paper - Evidence into Action: Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
Summit VI Action Strategies
Videos
Presentations
Thursday, September 22nd 
Homelessness, health, and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Ronald Valdiserri, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Results of a systematic literature review: Housing & HIV health outcomes
Michael Wilson, McMaster University and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Public health evidence: Housing as HIV prevention for people who inject drugs
Brandon Marshall, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS & Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Social, structural and behavioral determinants of overall health status among HIV-positive unstably housed individuals
Elise Riley, University of California, San Francisco
The role of stable housing and cognitive functioning on viral suppression among IDUs on HAART
Amy Knowlton, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Antiretroviral Treatment Effectiveness in a New York Cohort
Angela Aidala, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
The Cedar Project: Gender differences in HIV vulnerability associated with unstable housing among young Aboriginal people who use drugs in Vancouver and Prince George
Kate Jongbloed, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences and School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Sex, drugs and structural interventions: unstable housing associated with increased HIV risk behaviours in a cohort of people on treatment in British Columbia
Surita Parashar, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
HIV and Homelessness among Veterans receiving care at the Veterans Administration: Analyzing the VACS cohort
Toorjo (TJ) Ghose, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
Post-Earthquake Housing Instability and HAART Adherence in Haiti's Tent Cities
Edner Boucicaut, Housing Works HAITI
TJ Ghose, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
Katrina and its aftermath
Eric Oleson, Project Lazarus and the Coalition of HIV/AIDS Nonprofits and Government Entities (CHANGE Coalition)
International migration through Mexico: a health care model implemented by migrant's shelters through the collaboration with local health care services and other nongovernmental organizations
César Infante Xibille, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Housing Need Among PLWHA: A Southern Perspective
Kathie Hiers, AIDS Alabama
Rusty Bennett, Collaborative Solutions
Understanding Key Factors of Homeless HIV Infected Persons in the Rural South
R. David Parker, University of South Carolina, Department of Medicine
Housing is health care: The results of Health Navigation Service for those with HIV and other chronic illnesses
Bob Hughes, ASK Wellness Centre
Healthy Transitions: Housing as a structural intervention with women who are HIV positive and have been recently released from jail/prison
Samira Ali, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
Friday, September 23rd 
Positive Spaces Healthy Places: Update and new findings
Sean B. Rourke, Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Keith Hambly, Fife House
Jay Koornstra, Bruce House
Doe O'Brien Teengs, Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy
James Watson, Ontario HIV Treatment Network
The role of economic analyses in HIV health policy-making and practice
David Holtgrave, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Hot Spotters: Prioritizing HIV positive high users for supportive housing to contain public health costs
Josh Bamberger, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Housing and Urban Health Section
Acute care usage and housing history among homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York City
Vivian Towe, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygience
When the red ribbon unravels: Challenges for native PLWHA finding stable housing
Jamie Folsom, National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
The Internet and Social Media as Tools for Housing and HIV Prevention for Homeless Youth
Eric Rice, University of Southern California
Housing and AIDS in Québec, Canada: Building an innovative community-based research partnership in a socio-cultural and linguistic minority context
Hélène Laperriere, University of Ottawa
Helene Légare, SYDALYS
Michelle Blanchard, Maison d'Hérelle
Raphael Bostic, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing as if People Mattered
Russell Mawby, Places Group
Addressing HIV-Related Health Disparities
Kevin Fenton, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Learning Institute A – September 21, 2011 
Evidence-based Practice: Eliminating HIV Health Disparities
Learning Institute A Agenda
Housing as a platform for health: Defining and measuring housing success under the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy
David Vos, HUD Office of HIV/AIDS Housing
HUD HOPWA Special Projects of National Significance: Coupling service provision and community planning
Amy Palilonis, HUD Office of HIV/AIDS Housing
COCQ-SIDA: Community collaboration in Québec
Hélène Legaré, COCQ-SIDA
Understanding and meeting the need: One housing model for PLWHA in rural Alabama
Rita Flegel, Health Services Center Inc.
Keeping homeless PLWHA from "falling through the cracks" upon hospital discharge: AIDS services organizations respond
Keith Hambly, Fife House
HIV Supported Accommodation: the integral link between HIV health and housing
Katy Roy, ADAHPS, Sydney, New South Wales
Exploring Mental Health Disparities and Subsequent Stabilization among Previously Homeless PLWHA
Christine Drabek, Harlem United
Improving Health and Housing Stability for People Living with HIV/AIDS through Supportive Services: The Level of Care System
Mark Dagnall, Justice Resource Institute Health - Assisted Living Program, Boston
Understanding the Housing & Health Study: Using H&H findings to inform policy and practice
Angela Aidala, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Learning Institute B – September 21, 2011 
Research Methods & Measures: Eliminating HIV Health Disparities
Learning Institute B Agenda
Lessons learned from the practice of community-involved research
Catherine Worthington, University of Victoria
Benefits and challenges of peer-based research
James Watson, Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Collaboration and partnerships between faith based organizations and academic institutions to tackle health disparities: The case of migrant shelters and INSP
César Infante Xibille, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
Translating research to practice: Making a CBPR initiative work
Toorjo Ghose, University of Pennsylvania
Design of a participatory and sustainable primary health care model through Participatory Action Research in a semi-rural community located in the south of Morelos, Mexico
Maria Angeles Villanueva Borbolla, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico
So You Don't Have a Random Sample—You're In Good Company!
Martha Burt, Urban Institute
Using qualitative methods: The context of substance use and sexual behavior among 18- to 29-year-old men after their release from prison
David Seal, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Disease
Cost, threshold and cost-utility analyses: Why and how to include them in housing and health research
David Holtgrave, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Approaches for supporting the use of research evidence
Michael Wilson, McMaster University and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Using data to make policy
Carol Wilkins, Housing and Health Policy Analyst
Learning Institute C – September 21, 2011 
Evidence-Based Advocacy: Eliminating HIV Health Disparities
Learning Institute C Agenda
Southern exposure: HIV and human rights in the Southern United States
Megan McLemore, Human Rights Watch
Overcoming housing and health disparities for Aboriginal people in Canada
Charles Hill, Canadian National Aboriginal Housing Association
Latinos in the Deep South: Immigration status as a barrier to HIV prevention and care
Guillermo Chacón, Latino Commission on AIDS
Effect of a policy change on provision of short term housing assistance to persons living with HIV/AIDS
Kira Frederich, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health
US Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS (HOPWA) program modernization - Kathie Hiers - David Vos
David Vos, Office of HIV/AIDS Hosuing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Kathie Hiers, AIDS Alabama
The Affordable Care Act (ACA): Opportunities under the 'health homes' model
John Lozier, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Using the ACA to leverage changes on behalf of disadvantaged populations
Charles King, Housing Works
HIV housing advocacy post-Katrina
Crystal Pope, Collaborative Solutions
The ups and downs of advocacy (1990 - 2008): The evolution of a unique Canadian supportive housing complex
Dennis Magill, University of Toronto
Tony Di Pede, Wellesley Central Residence Inc.
The NO Justice Project: Targeting Louisiana's Solicitation Crime Against Nature (SCAN) statute
Deon Haywood, Women with a Vision
Davida Finger, Loyola University N.O. College of Law