Michael James Mugavero MD, MHSc

Michael J Mugavero, MD, MHSc, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and Project Director of the University of Alabama (UAB 1917) Clinic Cohort. He received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN, and completed his internal medicine residency from UAB and infectious diseases fellowship at Duke University in Durham, NC.

His research focuses on the influence of socio-behavioral and contextual factors across the HIV care continuum including testing, engagement, and retention in medical care, antiretroviral medication adherence, and ultimately, health outcomes. Dr. Mugavero has published on conceptual frameworks, measurement and methodological considerations, implications of care engagement for health outcomes, and intervention development and evaluation.

He provides particular expertise in the area of retention in care, serving as Interventions Section Chair for Guidelines on Entry and Retention in Care, Co-Leader of an AETC NRC Working Group that developed an Engagement in Care Toolkit, and site PI for the CDC/HRSA Retention in Care Study that generated 2 evidence-informed interventions.