Jacqueline C. Hodges

Dr. Hodges is an infectious diseases physician and researcher at Duke University School of Medicine. She designs and studies person-centered low barrier care innovations to increase the uptake of evidence-based treatments for HIV, Hep C, opioid use disorder and other complications of drug use. She serves as medical director of Project MAPS, a mobile medical outreach program that provide low barrier primary care and medications for opioid use disorder to undertreated individuals who use drugs throughout Durham, North Carolina in collaboration with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition and Durham Tech Community Health Lab. 

Her specific research interests have been in designing, adapting, evaluating and scaling multi-feature smartphone applications to support person-centered care. She has contributed to studies in Washington DC, Virginia, Russia, and Tanzania. She is currently supported by funding from the Duke Center for AIDS Research, the Duke Global Health Institute and is a Gilead Sciences HIV Research Scholar and a research fellow in the MiT SUD Ventures program. She is the principal investigator for a pilot study of PrEP initiation in the context of a mobile medical unit co-located with a mobile syringe service program in Durham County. She is also the PI of a two year study to co-design a person-centered mHealth intervention to support low barrier medical outreach including MOUD and HIV prevention for people with HIV throughout North Carolina, with follow-on funding received through a Duke SPARK award to pilot test the intervention.

Her research program applies theory and methods across the fields and disciplines of human-centered design, implementation science, community-engaged research, mixed methods research, digital health, and social entrepreneurship. Dr. Hodges is also a core faculty member for the Washington University of St. Louis HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Health Implementation Research Institute (HIGH IRI).