Associate Professor
Loma Linda University
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Alex Dubov is an Associate Professor of Behavioral Health at Loma Linda University, specializing in studying patient preferences to enhance the design and implementation of HIV prevention programs. His research primarily focuses on identifying and overcoming barriers to implementing PrEP in healthcare and community settings. During his REIDS fellowship at Yale School of Public Health, he was a USAID country consultant for Ukraine, using conjoint analysis to understand how at-risk populations value specific attributes of PrEP programs. The findings were presented to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and informed the design of their HIV prevention strategies. More recently, he has applied a similar approach to elicit the preferences of at-risk military members, helping to shape a military PrEP delivery program. His current study, funded by the same approach, aims to optimize access to HIV self-testing based on the preferences of key populations in Nigeria. Dr. Dubov is also a member of the UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS) Combination Prevention Core. In this role, he has served as a PI or co-investigator on several NIMH-funded projects under the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative. As a PI, he leads a SAMHSA-funded study that adapted and implemented a computer-based self-screening intervention to identify Latino ED patients with substance use disorder-related HIV risks. This approach is being replicated in a recently awarded three-year study (funded by NACDS, with Dubov as PI) focused on improving access to HIV screening, PrEP, and related interventions through community pharmacies, with a particular emphasis on reaching vulnerable, at-risk minority populations.