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Bisola Olubunmi Ojikutu, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH is an infectious disease physician who has dedicated her career to overcoming racial and ethnic inequity experienced by people living with or at risk for HIV. Dr. Ojikutu is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Global and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician within the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also a faculty member within the Infectious Disease Divisions at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals.Dr. Ojikutu is co-editor of two comprehensive textbooks detailing the HIV epidemic with Black and Latinx communities, HIV in US Communities of Color (first and second editions 2009 and 2020) and has lectured widely on the topic. She is also a leader within the Massachusetts statewide Getting to Zero and Ending the HIV Epidemic Steering Committees. Internationally, Dr. Ojikutu has worked throughout sub-Saharan Africa developing and evaluating models of care for people living with HIV. As a Senior Advisor at John Snow Research and Training Institute, she has led USAID-funded HIV service implementation projects focused on the expansion of HIV treatment. At HMS, she is co-Principal Investigator of the Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students and is the former Director of the Office of International Programs within the Division of AIDS at Harvard Medical School.

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Dr.  Ojikutu's research explores the impact of structural factors and norms/beliefs (e.g. racism/discrimination, immigration, medical mistrust, homonegativity) on HIV transmission and use of biomedical HIV prevention.
Much of her work has focused on the collaborative engagement of marginalized communities in research. To that end, she is the Director of the Community Engaged Research Program and the Associate Director of the Bio-Behavioral and Community Science Core within the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research.

Facilitators and Barriers to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Use Among Black Individuals in the United States: Results from the National Survey on HIV in the Black Community (NSHBC).
Authors: Authors: Ojikutu BO, Bogart LM, Higgins-Biddle M, Dale SK, Allen W, Dominique T, Mayer KH.
AIDS Behav
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Temporal Improvements in Long-term Outcome in Care Among HIV-infected Children Enrolled in Public Antiretroviral Treatment Care: An Analysis of Outcomes From 2004 to 2012 in Zimbabwe.
Authors: Authors: Makadzange AT, Dougherty L, Birri R, Kupakuwana G, van Dijk J, Bwakura Dangarembizi M, Mothobi N, Phelps B, Ojikutu B, Ndhlovu CE.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
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Mass incarceration and the impact of prison release on HIV diagnoses in the US South.
Authors: Authors: Ojikutu BO, Srinivasan S, Bogart LM, Subramanian SV, Mayer KH.
PLoS One
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Neighborhood Crime and Sexual Transmission Risk Behavior among Black Men Living with HIV.
Authors: Authors: Ojikutu BO, Bogart LM, Klein DJ, Galvan FH, Wagner GJ.
J Health Care Poor Underserved
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Non-communicable diseases and HIV care and treatment: models of integrated service delivery.
Authors: Authors: Duffy M, Ojikutu B, Andrian S, Sohng E, Minior T, Hirschhorn LR.
Trop Med Int Health
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HIV Testing Among Black and Hispanic Immigrants in the United States.
Authors: Authors: Ojikutu BO, Mazzola E, Fullem A, Vega R, Landers S, Gelman RS, Bogart LM.
AIDS Patient Care STDS
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Community Cultural Norms, Stigma and Disclosure to Sexual Partners among Women Living with HIV in Thailand, Brazil and Zambia (HPTN 063).
Authors: Authors: Ojikutu BO, Pathak S, Srithanaviboonchai K, Limbada M, Friedman R, Li S, Mimiaga MJ, Mayer KH, Safren SA.
PLoS One
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Clinical, Virologic, Immunologic Outcomes and Emerging HIV Drug Resistance Patterns in Children and Adolescents in Public ART Care in Zimbabwe.
Authors: Authors: Makadzange AT, Higgins-Biddle M, Chimukangara B, Birri R, Gordon M, Mahlanza T, McHugh G, van Dijk JH, Bwakura-Dangarembizi M, Ndung'u T, Masimirembwa C, Phelps B, Amzel A, Ojikutu BO, Walker BD, Ndhlovu CE.
PLoS One
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Barriers to HIV Testing in Black Immigrants to the U.S.
Authors: Authors: Ojikutu B, Nnaji C, Sithole-Berk J, Bogart LM, Gona P.
J Health Care Poor Underserved
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Interdisciplinary HIV care in a changing healthcare environment in the USA.
Authors: Authors: Ojikutu B, Holman J, Kunches L, Landers S, Perlmutter D, Ward M, Fant G, Hirschhorn L.
AIDS Care
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