Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Jeffrey T. Parsons, Director of Hunter College’s Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training (CHEST) and Distinguished Professor of Psychology, has been featured in POZ Magazine discussing the 20-year milestone since the founding of this important research center.

Dr. Parsons discusses the challenges to and opportunities for research beginning in the 1990s and how CHEST has evolved in its first 20 years. Looking forward, Parsons had this to say:

What’s exciting is, we are moving more into implementation science. We’re taking these interventions—we’re a controlled research center; we’re not providing services except to research—into clinics…So we are going to implement it in a community setting—and we don’t just study the participants; we study the staff and the system and the cost-effectiveness of it…Our new grants are focused on youth—as young as 12—and I think [we need to understand] issues of the aging LGBT population and long-term survivors. It’ll be interesting to see what’s going on.

Read the full interview via POZ Magazine here.

Related: Check out the archived footage from the CHEST 20th Anniversary Symposium, HIV Research that Informs Policy: Past, Present, and Future, held at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College on September 27, 2016.