Recently, AIDSVu’s principal researcher, Dr. Patrick Sullivan, sat down for an interview with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation to discuss AIDSVu and how big data is being used for public health.
During the interview, Dr. Sullivan demonstrates AIDSVu’s many unique features, including the public-private-academic partnership that drives the project, and the value that AIDSVu maps provide not only to public health officials, but to the general public in fully understanding the U.S. HIV epidemic.
Dr. Sullivan also highlights how AIDSVu maps can be used to compare HIV prevalence to social determinants of health – such as poverty, education, and income equality. The maps offer an interactive way to see the relationship between poverty and HIV prevalence, for example, across geographic areas.
“We find that counties that are highly impacted by HIV often have co-occurring high prevalence of poverty and lower educational attainment, for example. Another interesting feature is that we show health insurance coverage data at the county level. Here, the relationship with HIV is not so lockstep.”
Read the full interview here, and visit AIDSVu’s interactive maps to view HIV prevalence rates in your area.
