This week at Change we will be hosting Katie Curran, a PhD student in epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health. She recently returned from Kenya where she spent 7 months collecting data for her dissertation. One part of her study involved using SMS to collect daily & monthly data on HIV risk behaviors from participants of a larger HIV prevention clinical trial. Mobile phone text messaging represents an emerging low-technology and low-cost option for data collection in Africa. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a novel HIV prevention strategy. Adherence to PrEP is key for effective HIV prevention, and understanding patterns of adherence related to sexual behavior may be especially important for PrEP efficacy. Katie conducted a study of daily Short Message Service (SMS) data collection among HIV-uninfected members of HIV serodiscordant couples to measure sexual behavior and PrEP use. Come to Change this Thursday to find out more! Before coming to UW, Katie completed her master’s in international health at Johns Hopkins and worked on HIV research studies in Tanzania and India. What: Katie Curran on HIV prevention in Kenya When: Thursday, May 17 at 12 noon Where: The Allen Center, room CSE 203