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The Bureau of HIV and STI Programs Staff Directory is updated on a regular basis and provides the name, job title, area of expertise, and contact information of each staff person working within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Bureau of HIV and STI Programs (BHSP).
For general questions about HIV and STI prevention, control and surveillance work within Michigan, please contact BHSP at 517-335-0213.
For assistance with follow-up for patients that have been tested and diagnosed with HIV and other STIs, see the MDHHS HIV & STI Outreach Contact Directory.
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The Bureau of HIV and STI Programs (BHSP) is part of the MDHHS Public Health Administration.
BHSP focuses its efforts on:
BHSP consists of two divisions: Division of HIV/STI Programs, Client and Partner Services and Division of Data and Operations. The Division of HIV/STI Programs, Client and Partner Services consists of three sections: HIV Care Section, HIV/STI Prevention Section and HIV/STI Client, Partner, and Community Outreach Section. The Division of Data and Operations consists of two sections: Operations Section and Surveillance and Epidemiology Section. For more information about the type of work done by each section, click on each of the headings below.
The mission of the HIV Continuum of Care Unit is to promote, implement and facilitate health care and support services to improve equity in health outcomes for low-income, underinsured and uninsured people with HIV in Michigan.
The Continuum of Care Unit provides:
The Michigan Drug Assistance Program (MIDAP) Unit is responsible for three separate programs:
The HIV Care Special Projects Unit provides oversight, guidance and ensures compliance for unique projects that aim to improve the health outcomes of people with HIV in Michigan.
The HIV Care Special Projects Unit:
The Return to Care Unit is responsible for overseeing the implementation of comprehensive strategies for linkage to and re-engagement in care activities to align with Data to Care, based on CDC guidance. Program objectives include public health strategies that identify persons with HIV who are not in care, link those not in care to appropriate medical and social services, and ultimately support the HIV care continuum.
The Return to Care Unit includes:
The HIV Prevention and Intervention Unit activities are centered around decreasing the overall number of new HIV infections, working to suppress overall viral loads and decreasing HIV-related stigma.
The unit focuses on HIV prevention activities, including:
The primary goals of the Ending the Epidemic Unit are to reduce new infections by 75 percent in Wayne County by 2025 and to reduce new HIV infections by at least 90 percent statewide by 2030.
Ending the Epidemic Unit activities include:
These activities will be achieved by maintaining a community-focused lens and strong community partnerships to ensure all individuals are the recipients of culturally humble, comprehensive HIV prevention and care services.
The STI Interventions Unit works with public and private sector providers, laboratories, universities, and national partners to implement activities that impact STI screening/testing, treatment and partner management throughout the state of Michigan.
Key areas of emphasis include:
The Client, Partner and Community Outreach Units provide direct service to individuals diagnosed with, or potentially exposed to, STIs, including HIV. Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) are a specialized team that work to improve health outcomes for their clients and intervene in future transmission by ensuring timely treatment and providing education, counseling and partner management for patients and providers. Unit staff serve as content experts throughout the state.
The Gonorrhea Response Unit provides direct service to individuals diagnosed with, or potentially exposed to, STIs, primarily gonorrhea. Disease Intervention Specialists (DIS) are a specialized team that work to improve health outcomes for their clients and intervene in future transmission by ensuring timely treatment and providing education, counseling and partner management for patients and providers. Unit staff serve as content experts throughout the state.
The HIV/STI Pediatric Unit is a specialized team established to prevent the occurrence, interrupt the transmission, and reduce complications of reportable sexually transmitted infections. This team focuses primarily on cases connected to females 13-45 years old, pregnant persons throughout their entire pregnancy, and infants with possible perinatal transmission of syphilis and/or HIV.
The Financial Reporting and Analysis Unit is dedicated to the implementation of effective and efficient best practices in financial management, as well as establishing consistency in the application and interpretation of state and federal rules and regulations.
The Financial Reporting and Analysis Unit is responsible for:
The Grants and Contracts Unit provides comprehensive support to the BHSP personnel in identifying, applying for and managing federal, state and private grant funds. Additionally, the Grants and Contracts Unit coordinates subrecipient and recipient contracting of these federal, state and private grant funds to MDHHS partner agencies.
The Training Unit is responsible for providing educational opportunities for grantees, providers, BHSP staff, and local health departments.
HIV care and prevention program trainings, such as Case Management (CM) and Counseling, Testing and Referral (CTR) trainings, are provided through the training team in addition to several annual conferences.
The HIV/STI Surveillance Unit investigates and reports all new and out-of-state HIV and STI cases according to the public health code and CDC guidance. This includes coordinating with local health departments, community-based organizations, hospitals, and private clinical care providers to ensure all lab and relevant patient information is disclosed, accurate, and complete.
The unit combines case reporting with testing and laboratory data in order to achieve the goal of making sure people with HIV or people who have been diagnosed with an STI are treated and initiated into care in a timely manner.
The Data Management Unit focuses on the increase in data sharing and integration with other federally funded and state-funded HIV programs to support program evaluation, quality assurance and planning.
The unit oversees all operations conducted by the Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) team and is responsible for moving laboratories to a production status for Health Level Seven (HL7) reporting, as well as health informatics. Additionally, the staff in the Data Management Unit ensure the operations, training, and data integrity for systems used by the Ryan White program.
Staff in the Data Management unit collaborate with the HIV epidemiologists to maintain quality reporting of HIV data via quality improvements in the Laboratory Management System (LMS), entering and transferring data for the Link-Up Michigan program and other HIV care initiatives, and data matching with STIs.
The IT/Informatics Unit is responsible for providing expertise and assistance in the following areas:
The Quality and Evaluation Unit oversees evaluation and quality management efforts for the BHSP. This includes evaluation plan development and monitoring for an integrated organizational structure that supports active collaboration between HIV and STI care, prevention, and surveillance.
The unit conducts and analyzes numerous surveys on behalf of BHSP, helps to support quality improvement, and oversees the HIV and STI Accreditation Program. In addition, the Quality and Evaluation Unit oversees the Ryan White Quality Management Program.
The Epidemiology Unit uses public health data to:
Staff in the Epidemiology Unit also assist with monitoring and managing the quality of public health data routinely collected from HIV and STI surveillance and electronic lab reporting activities, HIV and STI testing, HIV and STI Partner Services, and Link-Up Michigan (HIV Data-to-Care).
The Special Studies Unit consists of two unique national supplemental surveillance projects funded by the CDC:
Information gathered from the MMP and NHBS may be used by health care providers, policy planners, prevention planning groups, and people with HIV to highlight disparities in care and services, advocate for needed resources, assist in prevention education and service initiatives, and allocate funds for HIV treatment and prevention.