Ten years ago, Gail Graham had barely heard of the PATIENTS Program and wasn’t interested in contributing to research by sharing her experience living with HIV.
Ten years ago, Jennifer Moore, PhD, RN, FAAN, was a senior advisor and health scientist with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), overseeing the implementation of the organization’s grant awards. As an AHRQ program officer working with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Moore was about to play an active role in shepherding the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy’s PATIENTS Program from an idea to reality.
Ten years ago, the PATIENTS Program received an AHRQ $5 million Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Infrastructure Development (R24) grant. That was also when Graham was introduced to C. Daniel Mullins, PhD, executive director of the PATIENTS Program and professor in the Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research, by her pastor, Franklin Lance. Graham resisted working with the PATIENTS Program, as so many groups had come into her community to collect data or biospecimens only to never come back with the results.
That all changed when she saw how Mullins and the PATIENTS Program engaged with the community at World AIDS Day, an event hosted by Graham at her church, Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church.
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