About

The Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE) is a center of excellence supporting clinical care and research training in resource-limited communities. In response on our partners’ needs, we collaborate to build educational programs, in-country clinical support tools and distance learning infrastructure that strengthen capacity. We leverage the extensive ongoing international, collaborative research and training programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. The Johns Hopkins CCGHE develops and leverages a broad range of innovative information communication technologies (ICT) to support our mission, including e-learning, telemedicine, video conferencing, social media and mobile health applications.

Project Overview

Foreign-born Latino males have a high risk of late HIV diagnosis and presentation to care, which can lead to poor clinical outcomes and ongoing HIV transmission in the community. Late HIV diagnosis is common among immigrant Latino men in Baltimore despite the availablity of free HIV counseling and testing by bilingual Latino health workers in streets, bars and community centers. The objective of LaMocha is to develop a mobile technology application to improve HIV testing for Latino immigrant men in Baltimore.

In partnership with JHU Center for Clinical Global Health Education and the Baltimore City Health Department, MICA is working to increase HIV testing among foreign-born Latino males in Baltimore City. MICA will build a strategy and foundation to develop and evaluate culturally-competent messages for a mobile device program to improve HIV testing among foreign-born Latino men living in Baltimore City.

Designers

Japheth Crawford, Nate Gulledge, Autumn Haac, Tanya Heidrich, Sung Mun, Mike Rich, Iris Sprague, Lizzie Tonkin, Kevin Zweerink