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GEO IMPACT: Geo-Targeted Implementation of a novel Mobile Pharmacy and Clinic healthcare delivery model with Community HeAlth Workers for prevention, Care and Treatment of HIV and substance use

Award Number: RM1DA064594
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/01/2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/28/2031

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GEO IMPACT: Geo-Targeted Implementation of a novel Mobile Pharmacy and Clinic healthcare delivery model with Community HeAlth Workers for prevention, Care and Treatment of HIV and substance use - Project Abstract There have been numerous recent outbreaks of HIV among people who use drugs (PWUD) creating a “converging public health crisis” that threatens the success of the federal Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. No single prevention or treatment approach will end the HIV epidemic among PWUD requiring new ways to bring services directly to PWUD where they are. This inspired the creation of the first legalized mobile pharmacy and clinic (MPC) health system in the U.S. with community health workers (CHW) working on the ground as one such strategy. However, knowing exactly where to go and how people will uptake services is still a vexing problem. Thus, we propose GEO IMPACT with an overarching goal of: Can a learning public health system be developed to increase reach and access to care for PWUD and who are living with or at risk for HIV? To reach this high-risk high-reward goal, the strategy is 3 fold: 1) Identify the population in need: With a first time-ever collaboration of 6 CT state health agencies, community groups, and researchers, we will identify the PWUD population living with or at risk HIV and quantify the magnitude of need for prevention and treatment services using modeling techniques.; 2) Align the need with access to services: With ongoing multidirectional data with CT state agencies, community HIV, SUD, and social service partners, and the MPC we will use the data to deploy the MPC to these areas and evaluate its impacts compared with matched communities on outcomes at 3 levels: macro (modeling and existing state markers of substance use and HIV), meso (community services and access to care) and micro (PWUD living with or at risk for HIV). A mixed-methods community engaged approach will characterize additional local barriers to optimize healthcare delivery and; 3) Use modeling and implementation information to make measurement-based improvement over three phases: Within the meta-framework of the Implementation Research Logic Model (IRLM), we will examine how the modeling information and the MPC intervention are working. Using mixed methods approaches, we will evaluate contextual determinants (barriers and facilitators) that mediate or moderate the achievement of these goals, the implementation strategies designed to achieve them, and if and how these implementation outcomes are being achieved. Akin to a learning health system approach, over three phases, we track how modeling and MPC services are working. With each subsequent phase we make iterative adaptations and improvements. This study combines a unique and broad set of methods and expertise, from the quantitative (spatial statistics, epidemiology and geography) to the clinical and operational (MPC), and implementation science. It is also multi-sectoral with 6 state agencies that will now collaborate with community and research partners on the health of PWUD. GEO-IMPACT is a radical approach that leverages: 1) the latest methods to identify PWUD at risk/living with HIV; 2) assertive mobile pharmacy and primary care and community health worker outreach service provision; and 3) a learning public health system to evaluate and improve how these innovative processes impact the lives of PWUD at risk and living with HIV.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $2,225,580 )
2026	2026	YALE UNIV	150 MUNSON ST	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs	001	1	4/16/2026	NEW	$0
2026	2026	YALE UNIV	150 MUNSON ST	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs	000	1	4/1/2026	NEW	$2,225,580
														Subtotal = $2,225,580

Grand Total All Awards = $2,225,580

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GEO IMPACT: Geo-Targeted Implementation of a novel Mobile Pharmacy and Clinic healthcare delivery model with Community HeAlth Workers for prevention, Care and Treatment of HIV and substance use

Award Number: RM1DA064594

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/01/2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/28/2031

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