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NEWS & EVENTS
2024 Aaka Pande and Sumit Majumdar Memorial Award Recipients Announced
The Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research (HPI) is honored to announce the recipients of the 2024 Aaka Pande and Sumit Majumdar Memorial Award: Selina Ehrenzeller, MD; and Bryant Shuey, MD, MPH. With this award in memory of two former fellows, HPI annually recognizes the talents of current and former research fellows in the Department of Population Medicine making significant contributions to constructive health policy dialogue through publications of sound research, insightful blogs, or op-eds.
Use of doxycycline and other antibiotics as bacterial sexually transmitted infection prophylaxis among gay and bisexual men in the United States
A new study led by research fellow Michael Traeger, with senior author Julia Marcus, Douglas Krakower, and collaborators Kenneth Mayer and Samuel Jenness aimed to learn more about awareness of and interest in bacterial STI prevention. The study, online now in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, highlights the need for prompt guidance on effective doxyPEP dosing and timely efforts to monitor real-world use. Drs. Traeger and Marcus discuss the study in this Q&A.
