Karen McKinnon, MA

I have been conducting research and training about the mental health aspects of HIV infection for over 25 years. My work as a Research Scientist has been primarily with people with severe mental illness, mapping rates of HIV infection in New York City, learning their risk behaviors, and developing interventions that help them reduce their risk for acquiring or transmitting the virus. In addition to conducting NIMH-funded research in New York and Brazil, I am the director of the Columbia HIV Mental Health Training Project.

As a component of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Center, we train prescribers about the intersection of mental health and HIV care. We also are funded by NYSDOH AIDS Institute as the Clinical Education Initiative's Evaluation Center, coordinating all training outcome data and analysis for their Centers of Excellence.