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Figure 1. Overlap of Conditions
DARIA BOCCHER-LATTIMORE,
DRPH, is Director and Principal
Investigator of the Northeast/Caribbean
AIDS Education and Training Center. She
serves as President of the National
Alliance for HIV Education and Workforce
Development (NAHEWD) and is an Associate
Professor in Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) at
the Columbia University Medical Center.

CODY LENTZ, BS, is a Project

Figure 2. World Health Organization Pyramid of
the Optimal Mix of Mental Health Services.

Coordinator at the HIV Center for Clinical
& Behavioral Studies, Columbia
University. He currently helps to direct
multiple HIV Center supplements geared
towards enhancing integration of behavioral health
services into HIV care and treatment settings, as well
as tailoring medical and social support services to
better meet the needs of young adults living with HIV
in New York City.

MARI MILLERY, PHD, has been the
Regional Evaluation Director for the
Northeast/Caribbean AIDS Education
and Training Center since 1999. Her
academic career in public health includes
postdoctoral training in health informatics, both at
Columbia University, and a long history of working
with HIV programs, including HIV practitioner training
programs. Dr Millery is the principal program
evaluation and research consultant at M Research
Studio, LLC.

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