Kristin Beima-Sofie, MPH, PhD

Acting Assistant Professor

 

Dr. Kristin Beima-Sofie, MPH, PhD, is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. She is a qualitative researcher with implementation science training serving as core faculty for the UW/FHCRC Center for AIDS Research Behavior Science Core, as well as faculty for the Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh) and the Kenya Research and Training Center (KRTC). Dr. Beima-Sofie’s research interests have coalesced around understanding factors that influence the health of women, adolescents and children affected by HIV. Aligning with these interests, her current research projects focus on evaluating interventions and national programs for adolescents affected by HIV including programs and policies around HIV disclosure to children and adolescents, transition from pediatric to adult care, and healthcare provider interventions that optimize HIV treatment support. She is also involved in several projects to optimize PrEP delivery, including integration into family planning clinics or harm reduction services and evaluation of novel PrEP products. Dr. Beima-Sofie leads a qualitative mentoring group (QWIP) for students, fellows, faculty and staff, conducts workshops on qualitative methods, and teaches the second course in the global health qualitative methods series (GH539: Analyzing Qualitative Data).

Publications

  1. Secor, AM, Justafort, J, Torrilus, C, Honoré, J, Kiche, S, Sandifer, TK et al.. "Following the data": perceptions of and willingness to use clinical decision support tools to inform HIV care among Haitian clinicians. Health Policy Technol. 2024;13 (3):. doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2024.100880. PubMed PMID:39555144 PubMed Central PMC11567668.
  2. Halliday, S, Dombrowski, JC, Emerson, R, Beima-Sofie, K, Chwastiak, LA, Sherr, K et al.. Formative qualitative research to guide implementation of the Collaborative Care Model in a low-barrier HIV clinic. AIDS Care. 2024; :1-14. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2024.2411296. PubMed PMID:39531512 .
  3. Perkins, R, Beima-Sofie, K, Christopoulos, K, Cohen, SE, Dright, A, Dombrowski, JC et al.. "Another tool for the sexual health toolkit": U.S. health care provider knowledge and attitudes about doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men. Sex Transm Dis. 2024; :. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000002095. PubMed PMID:39481014 .
  4. Violette, LR, Zewdie, K, Gitahi, N, Beima-Sofie, K, Heffron, R. The pathway to delivering injectable CAB for HIV prevention: strategies from global PrEP leaders leveraging an adapted version of the Intervention Scalability Assessment Tool (ISAT). Implement Sci Commun. 2024;5 (1):101. doi: 10.1186/s43058-024-00637-1. PubMed PMID:39294836 PubMed Central PMC11409526.
  5. Vera, M, Aketch, H, Omom, C, Otieno, F, Owiti, G, Sila, J et al.. "I was given PrEP, but had no privacy": Mystery shopper perspectives of PrEP counseling for adolescent girls and young women in Kisumu County, Kenya. PLoS One. 2024;19 (8):e0309075. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309075. PubMed PMID:39159171 PubMed Central PMC11332929.
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