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STI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 20.Health and Economic Benefits of STI and HIV Prevention Program ActivitiesFabulous explanation of the updated STIC 2,0 tool for STI programs to estimate the direct and indirect costs averted by program efforts! Link to Article: Sexually Transmitted Diseases 52(8):p 443-449, August 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000002147Link to STIC Figure 2.0: https://links.lww.com/OLQ/B184Linkto SPACE tool: https://www.cdc.gov/sti/php/sti-program-resources/space-tool.html
2025-08-1414 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 19.Reduced Risk of Syphilis ReinfectionThis article describes the differences in reinfection with syphilis between men who were interviewed by DIS and named partners compared to those not interviewed or who did not name partners. Link to article: Reduced Risk of Syphilis Reinfection inMen Interviewed by Disease Intervention Specialists: A Pilot Study - AJPM Focus
2025-07-3112 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 18.Awareness, Attitudes, and Interest in Doxy PEPThis short episode presents a study from New York City's sexual health clinics describing what clients thought about Doxy PEP.Article link on Google STIRR drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/136sDoa0OR2N64LhNyahfHM0eeyntY9gQ/view?usp=drive_linkLink to CDC Doxy PEP guidance on Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/162oBOAnXNGSbZ-V1An7YafyqjwI8NOLh/view?usp=drive_linkOutro music credit Thomas Dolby
2025-07-1712 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 17.Opt Out ED Syphilis Testing for Pregnant PatientsHow important is it to start doing opt out rapid syphilis testing for pregnant patients at emergency departments just like opt out HIV testing is recommended be done for all patients? Listen to this super quick episode and find out!Link to Article: SexuallyTransmitted DiseasesPrior study making similar points: SexuallyTransmitted DiseasesHIV opt out testing article: Estimates of HIVTesting at Visits to U.S. Emergency Departments, 2014–2020 - PMCOutro music credit: Thomas Dolby
2025-07-0310 min
News & Public Affairs – WFHBWFHB Local News – June 30th, 2025This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, June 30th, 2025.
In today’s newscast, Gerard Pannekoek walks through the mission of the recent Granfalloon Festival. You’ll get a deep dive into the “how and why” of Granfalloon later in the show in a feature report.
Also, you will hear Maggie Sullivan, watershed coordinator for Friends of Lake Monroe, a grassroots nonprofit watchdog for the lake and the streams feeding it. Learn more later in the show on a new episode of Activate!
But first, your daily headlines:
Monroe County Board of Healt...
2025-06-3030 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 16.Syphilis screening of pregnant women in commercial health insurance plansHow often would you guess that pregnant women who have commercial health insurance, that is not Medicaid, are screened for syphilis during pregnancy? This episode looks at the huge dataset from all commercially insured women in the US during 2022 to answer just this question and to discuss any differences between populations regarding syphilis screening.Article link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vupJbASC5aGgTWklmg7gGDnpvSL9sYPG/view?usp=drive_linkLink to my article: Social Vulnerabilityin Congenital Syphilis Case Mothers: Qualitative Assessment of Cases inIndiana, 2014–2016 - PMCHMO,PPO, EPO or POS insurance plan...
2025-06-1913 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 15.Using a Questionnaire to diagnose CT/GC among MSM with HIVLink to full text in Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CRPuogdHegnrFubmfqQEmRth8dy_sWPt/view?usp=drive_linkCan using a standardized questionnaire improve extragenital testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea among MSM with HIV? A group of researchers in Arizona wanted to find out – Listen to this episode of STIRR and you will learn about their study and their results. Outro music credit: Thomas Dolby
2025-06-0512 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode14.Using the EHR for EPT in the EDThis short episode discusses how one childrens' hospital in Ohio implemented expedited partner therapy using their electronic health record.Outro music credit: Thomas DolbyLink to article: on podcast google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/10CXvikGDnKbTAn_tkHNvuCNWyp3mAnJP/view?usp=drive_linkLink to CDC EPT site: ExpeditedPartner Therapy | STI | CDC
2025-05-2211 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 13. Underuse of STI Prevention CounselingHow often do you think primary care physicians in the U.S. perform STI prevention counseling with patients? The results in this episode might surprise you.Link to article: STIRRpodcast episode full text articles - Google DriveLink to USPSTF recommendation: Recommendation:Sexually Transmitted Infections: Behavioral Counseling | United StatesPreventive Services TaskforceOutro music credit: Thomas Dolby
2025-05-0817 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 12. Does Stigma Affect Healthcare Engagement Among Black MSM?Guest: Michael McNair, Special Projects Coordinator for NYState DoH, Office of Sexual Health and Epidemiology in the AIDS InstituteTo learn more about Michael and his singing career, go to: Www.Mike-Bear.com or www.youtube.com/MikeBear76 Link to full text of article: Experiences of stigmaand health care engagement among Black MSM newly diagnosed with HIV/STI - PMCHIV Stigma Framework link: HIVStigma Framework – Earnshaw LabOutro music credit Thomas Dolby
2025-04-2435 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 11.Measuring Success for DISShort episode - not quite 15 mins! Presents an article discussing how our current ways to measure DIS success may be falling short and how we might be able to do better in counting the great work you do.Link to full text article: Measuring Success:Disease Intervention Specialists Performance Metrics and Outcome Assessments -PMCLink to an easy Excel spreadsheet an STD program can fillout to capture what it prevented in its population CDCSexually Transmitted Infection Costs (STIC) Figure and User’s Manual |Link to full text: Ending the HIV Epidemic: Contributions Resultingfrom Sy...
2025-04-1014 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 10.In-Person or Phone Interviews for STIs?STD Programs had to switch to telephone follow up for STIs during COVID-19, but why are so many programs still conducting interviews by phone when in-person interviewing has been the standard since the 1940s? What effect does this have on the quality of the interview? I will discuss this with my special guest, DIS trainer extraordinaire, Lisa Papa. Please join us.Link to article (in manuscript form): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eKomJ_11RmaLmu4jTWpFF9-QcP4lm3T6/view?usp=drive_linkPlease leave a comment after you hear this episode!If...
2025-03-2731 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 9.ACA Medicaid Expansion and STI Testing in WomenQuick episode - just 10 minutes! This episode briefly discusses an article examining whetherSTI testing increased among women of childbearing age in states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA compared to states that did not. Please leave comments here and reach out to me at stiresearchroundup@gmail.com with ideasLink to Medicaid expansion map: Statusof State Medicaid Expansion Decisions | KFFLink to article on STIRR Google Drive full text: STIRRpodcast episode full text articles - Google DriveLink to article abstract Pub Med: Examining the AssociationBetween Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion...
2025-03-1310 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 8.Factors Influencing Time to Diagnosis and TreatmentThis episode of STI Research Roundup when I will present a study done in Massachusetts that describes the individual and clinic-level factorsassociated with delays in gonorrhea treatment. I’ll be joined by a special guest, Kelly Palm, FNP-C, Director of Health Services at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, to help me discuss the article.[Note: Many important links have been purged by the Trump/Musk administration since late Jan., 2025 so something referenced in the episode may no longer be available.]Link to article: (abstract only – full text in google drive)Factors Associated WithDelays in Presentation and T...
2025-02-2732 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 7. STI Incidence in EHE JurisdictionsThis episode will discuss a study of STI incidence in the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) jurisdictions. It considers theextent to which biomedical interventions for HIV, specifically PrEP, may impact overall STI rates, or not.Note: After the Trump/Musk purge of government documents, some of the links given below may be blank.Please look for selected CDC publications at:STI materials purged from CDC Website 01.31.25 - Google DriveLink to article:Examination of Incidence ofSexually Transmitted Infections in the Ending the HIV Epidemic Priority Countiesof the United States, 2005-2019 - PubMed (Note: links to abst...
2025-02-1329 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 6.HIV Self Test Home Delivery for MSMThis article discusses an interesting experiment to see if delivering HIV self test kits to MSM could increase regular testing and reduce risk behavior in a few identified EHE (Ending the HIV Epidemic) jurisdictions.
If you'd like to suggest a topic for a future episode or volunteer to be a guest discussant on an episode please email: STIresearchroundup@gmail.com
Link to article: The effects
of regular home delivery of HIV self‐testing and follow‐up counselling on HIV
testing and prevention outcomes in men who have sex with men who test
infrequently in the United S...
2025-01-3013 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode5.Drivers of Congenital Syphilis in OregonPlease hear about how Oregon assessed what individual and county-level factors were associated with a congenital syphilis birth.
If you'd like to suggest a topic for a future episode or volunteer to be a guest discussant on an episode please email: STIresearchroundup@gmail.com
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Link to full text article:
Multilevel
Drivers of Congenital Syphilis, Oregon, 2013 to 2021 - PubMed
Links mentioned in the podcast:
Link to testfo...
2025-01-1617 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 4.EPT in ED surveyThis episode presents results from a survey of Emergency Department directors at academic hospitals about their awareness of, support for, and prescribing practices for Expedited Partner Therapy for chlamydia.
Link to full text of the article here:
A
National Study of Expedited Partner Therapy Use in Emergency Departments: A
Survey of Medical Director Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices - PMC
Link to the EPT page on CDC's website
Expedited
Partner Therapy | STI | CDC
If you have topic ideas for future episodes or if you...
2025-01-0214 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 3. Partner Services Fatigue?This episode discusses a study linked below that examines how often MSM with an STI participate in subsequent interviews for partner notification after a previous STI diagnosis. A guest joins to give her perspective: Julia, who is a supervisor of disease intervention specialists (DIS) at a large urban STD clinic.
Previous
Sexually Transmitted Infections and Partner Services Interviews as Predictors
of Subsequent Interview Completion Among Cisgender MSM: Partner Services
Fatigue? - PubMed (nih.gov)
2024-12-1919 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 2. Provider Perspectives on CS PreventionThis episode focuses on the problem of congenital syphilis and examines healthcare providers' thoughts about what challenges they experience when diagnosing or treating syphilis in their pregnant patients.
Link to the two articles discussed:
Provider-Reported
Barriers in Sexual Health Care Services for Women With Upstream Barriers: The
Case of Syphilis and Congenital Syphilis in Southern Colorado, 2022 - PubMed
(Colleen Hackett, PhD, Leslie Frank, MPH, et al)
Missed
Opportunities for Prevention of Congenital Syphilis — United States, 2018 |
MMWR
2024-12-0526 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)Episode 1. HIV and Syphilis Co-Screening RatesHere is a link to today's article if you'd like to read it:
HIV and Syphilis Co-Screening Rates Among Patients Tested for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia at a Large, Urban Hospital - PubMed
If you have suggestions for topics you'd like me to cover in future episodes please leave a comment! Thanks for listening
2024-11-2111 minSTI Research Roundup (STIRR)The PrequelDo you work in the Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI)
field as a Disease Intervention professional? (DIS, outreach worker, family planning worker, STD clinic worker, STI program manager, community-based
organization worker….) Do you want to stay current on the research for STI/STD/HIV but don’t have the time to read
journal articles? If so, this podcast is for you! STI Research Roundup will present current research from the published literature in an easy-to-understand way in a short amount of time so you can get on with your important work. This Prequel will tell you who I am and why I wa...
2024-08-3004 min
Brianna ApprovedEpisode 48 - Cassie Aurora: Understanding HomeopathyIn episode 48 of the podcast I sit down with Cassie Aurora, a professional astrologer, reiki master, sound healer, and holistic integrative coach.
In this episode Cassie dives into all things understanding Homeopathy, which includes explaining what Homeopathy actually is (and why she believes it is the medicine of the future), when it might be a good time to integrate this healing modality into your wellness journey, explaining the differences between strength and dosages when choosing a remedy and some life & health advice she would give to all the listeners and her younger self!
You c...
2022-11-1440 min