Director of Evaluation
University of Kentucky, United States
Dr. Hilary Surratt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on psychosocial and behavioral interventions among populations impacted by substance use disorder, with the central goal of improving health outcomes and optimizing care for underserved people who use drugs in community, treatment and clinical settings. Dr. Surratt’s research to develop and test HIV-related interventions with people who use drugs has contributed to several evidence-based protocols that have been disseminated to scientific and practitioner audiences. She is an NIH-funded principal investigator and an experienced team scientist, contributing expertise in substance use disorder, intervention adaptation, community engagement, qualitative inquiry, and evaluation science to multidisciplinary research teams across the University of Kentucky. She has collaborated numerous NIH-funded grants during her research career. Most recently, she is PI on a NIH-funded project to develop an integrated Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV care model for people who inject drugs in rural Kentucky, which provides a unique opportunity to mount innovative prevention programs to stem HIV outbreaks in rural areas and contribute to national Ending the HIV Epidemic objectives. In addition, Dr. Surratt serves as Director of Evaluation for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Kentucky. Her research efforts have resulted in more than 150 peer reviewed publications and book chapters. Dr. Surratt engages in service to the field through her ongoing activities as a peer reviewer for NIH Center for Scientific Review as well as several high-impact journals. Additionally, she was recognized with an inaugural Community Engagement Pillar Award from the College of Medicine in 2022.
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Rural Health Impacts: Leveraging the TSBM Model to Capture Larger Research Consortium Trends
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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