Season 14 • Episode 1029

A Community Bridge to PrEP

Episode Description

About this episode:

Pharmacists and community leaders are both on the frontlines of improving access to HIV prevention services, but often their efforts are siloed. What can it look like when they work together? In this episode: Host Lindsay Smith Rogers interviews Leisha McKinley-Beach and Natalie Crawford, two implementation scientists asking this question in Georgia and Louisiana.

Guest:

Leisha McKinley-Beach, MPH, is a national HIV prevention expert and the CEO and founder of Black Public Health Academy.

Natalie Crawford, PhD, MPH is an associate professor and the co-director of the Prevention and Implementation Sciences Core in the Center for AIDS Research at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Host:

Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Show links and related content:

National Coalition Announces Initiative to Help Community Pharmacies Expand HIV Prevention Services—Emory Rollins School of Public Health
PharmacistInitiated PrEP and PEP—National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)
A Critical Moment in the Fight Against HIV—Public Health On Call (July 2025)
Voices in Print: Elevating Patient Perspectives in Medical Literature—Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

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