Jennifer Yarger, PhD, current CAIRIBU K12 Scholar in the UCSF UroEpi Career Development Program, recently received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of Population Affairs (OPA). Dr. Yarger will be rigorously evaluating “Yes & Know!”, a fully virtual intervention that integrates group-based education with digital tools to support young people ages 14-19, both male and female, by increasing their relationship and healthy life skills with the goal of reducing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
This five-year project will add to the evidence base for fully digital sexual health interventions for youth, focusing on underserved populations of youth living in rural communities across the United States. This is complementary to work pursued by Alison Huang, MD, Principal Investigator of the UC-San Franciso-Kaiser Permanente Urological Epidemiology Institutional Research Career Development Program, on remote and telehealth care for UTIs and other genitourinary infections in young adults.