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Jessica Haberer, MD, MS

About Jessica Haberer, MD, MS
Jessica Haberer, MD, received a bachelor's degree in the Biological Sciences and a master's degree in Health Services Research from Stanford University, as well as a medical degree from Yale University. She completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. After finishing her training, Dr. Haberer worked for the William J. Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Beijing, China, where served as a Clinical and Research Advisor to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention/ National Center for AIDS, Division of Treatment and Care. Upon returning to the United States, she joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco as a Clinical Educator. Dr. Haberer developed in interest in adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) while in China and began studying multiple measures of ART adherence among children and adults in developing settings. Dr. Haberer joined Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in 2008, where she is actively involved in the study of wireless adherence monitoring technologies and strategies for developing settings, as well as adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV infection.

Role(s) / Profession(s)

Academic
Physician
Researcher

Organization

Harvard Initiative for Global Health - HIGH
Website: http://gid.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: The Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) is a university-wide initiative whose mission is to educate and train the next generation of global health leaders, and create and disseminate new knowledge to address the major challenges in global health.
Massachusetts General Hospital - MGH
Website: http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England. The 900-bed medical center offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. Each year, MGH admits more than 46,000 inpatients and handles nearly 1.5 million outpatient visits at its main campus and at its four health centers: in the Back Bay, Charlestown, Chelsea and Revere. Its Emergency Department records nearly 80,000 visits annually. MGH is the only hospital in the United States to hold concurrent Level 1 verification for adult and pediatric trauma and burn care. The surgical staff performs more than 35,000 operations and the MGH Vincent Obstetrics Service delivers more than 3,500 babies each year.

Work Location(s)

United States

Jessica's Communities

Adherence & Retention Moderator
Health IT

Language(s)

English

Recent Contributions

Jessica Haberer, MD, MS replied to "Effectiveness of GPS for following study participants" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi All, I will soon be using GPS in a study of PrEP adherence in Uganda. We will be conducting home visits and will use GPS devices to help reliably locate participants' homes. I agree with the earlier comments that confidentiality and informed consent are important; however, I believe they can be used responsibly and will be very valuable in our study setting where few roads or paths are labelled. I'd be happy to share ...
Jessica Haberer, MD, MS replied to "Effectiveness of GPS for following study participants" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Dear Chinenye, I would like to introduce you to Julius Wasubire. He is a colleague from Kampala who has quite a bit of experience with GPS from his studies at University. He will also be in charge of using GPS to track participants homes in our upcoming pre-exposure prophylaxis study. I am introducing him to GHDonline, and he said he would be happy to talk with you about GPS. His email is wasubire@gmail.com. I am ...
Jessica Haberer, MD, MS replied to "Effectiveness of GPS for following study participants" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi Michael, It might be helpful for the community to hear exactly how you are using the GPS. For instance, could you address these questions? 1. Which devices are you using? 2. Do you map the whole route or key geographic areas? 3. Do you store the maps on the devices (which typically have limited capacity) or use a desktop computer for storage and download maps as needed? 4. Which staff use the devices and ...
Jessica Haberer, MD, MS replied to "Effectiveness of GPS for following study participants" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Dear Ifunanya and Chinenye, Thank you for your contributions to this discussion. Chinenye, I agree with your comments. Ifunanya, we are using GPS solely for tracking directions and the locations of study participants’ homes in studies of ART adherence (which have full IRB approval and participant consent). I don’t think the GPS influences study retention rates, although we are not studying it. I think our use of frequent contact and incentives (e.g. sugar or soap ...
Jessica Haberer, MD, MS replied to "Training staff and parents on issues of adherence in children" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi Anat, Claude Mellins and I recently wrote a review article on this topic (abstract below). It's not a practical manual, but I think it provides a nice framework for considering the key issues. The issue focuses on ART, but has relevance for other chronic diseases. I'd be happy to send anyone a full copy of the article, if you can't access it through your institution. Regards, Jessica Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2009 Nov;6(4):194-200. Pediatric adherence ...

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