2024 URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting Agenda

The objectives of the 2024 URBAN ARCH Annual Meeting are to bring together International URBAN ARCH Center teams and collaborators to do the following:

  • Discuss emerging issues at the intersection of HIV, TB, and alcohol research
  • Examine collaboration opportunities across HIV/alcohol P01 Centers
  • Engage trainees in HIV and alcohol research domestically and internationally
  • Update the Program Advisory Committee and receive feedback on progress and challenges

Friday, May 3, 2024

8:00 – 8:25       Coffee + arrival (light breakfast available)

8:25 – 8:35        Welcome, introductions, and orientation to the day (Jeffrey Samet – BU)

8:35 – 8:50        NIAAA HIV/alcohol priorities (Kendall Bryant – NIH)

8:50 – 10:00      International URBAN ARCH Center Updates

8:50 – 9:00        Administrative and BDM Cores (Jeffrey Samet – BU & Debbie Cheng – BUSPH)
9:00 – 9:30         Uganda TRAC Study & BAHR (Winnie Muyindike – MUST & Judy Hahn – UCSF)
9:30 – 10:00      Uganda TALC Study & GRAIL (Kaku So-Armah – BU & Karsten Lunze – BU)

10:00 – 10:30   Updates from 2nd Generation URBAN ARCH P01 Centers

10:00 – 10:15    ARCHER (Michael Stein – BUSPH)
10:15 – 10:30    META HIV CVD (Matthew Freiberg – VUMC; tentative)

10:30 – 10:45      Coffee break

10:45 –11:30        Invited Talk: Key Issues in TB and HIV Research (Bob Horsburgh – BUSPH)

11:30 – 11:45        Group photo (outside)

11:45 – 12:30        Lunch

12:30 – 1:15          Invited Talk: Future Research on TB, Alcohol, and HIV in Uganda (Conrad Muzoora – MUST)

1:15 – 2:15             Early Career Investigator Presentations

1:15 –1:30      Routinely Collected Lab Tests can be Used to Predict Biomarker-Measured Heavy Alcohol Use Among People with HIV: a Proof-of-Concept Using Machine Learning (Cristina Espinosa Da Silva – UCSF)

1:30 –1:45      Assessing the Concordance Between Two Alcohol Biomarkers and Self-Reported Alcohol Consumption Before and After the COVID-19 Lockdown Among Men and Women with HIV and Alcohol Use in Uganda (Katherine Calver – BMC & Christine Ngabirano – MUST)

1:45 –2:00     Hazardous Alcohol Use Predicts Detectable Viremia among Ugandan Women: A Prospective Analysis (Amanda Miller – SDSU)

2:00 –2:15     Stakeholder Perceptions of the Impact of Alcohol and Other Substance Use on Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine Candidacy and Utility (Rebecca Hoffman – UF)

2:15     Adjourn