Focus
HIV prevention, care and treatment; HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis; Motivation Interviewing; Implementation Science
Biography
Dr. Leah Davis Ewart is a Research Assistant Professor in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Dr. Ewart earned her Ph.D. in Prevention Science and Community Health from the University of Miami, with a focus on multi-level determinants of HIV prevention, care and treatment for men who use stimulants. She received her Master of Public Health from Florida International University in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She has over 10 years of experience working on community health initiatives. Her current work focuses on HIV prevention, care and treatment, with an emphasis on intervention development and implementation, motivational enhancement interventions, and informing intervention science with the use of qualitative and mixed methods approaches.
Education
- University of Miami, PhD
- Florida International University, MPH
- Florida International University, BA
Publications/Research
Chavez JV, Ewart Davis L, Ilyas O, Ghanooni D, Diaz JE, Atkins L, Ramos R, Garayua Hernandez A, Stewart A, Horovath, KJ, Hirshfield S, Carrico AW. ‘I was like, this is gonna hurt’: Implementing Self-Sampling of Dried Blood Spots to Measure HIV Viral Load. PLoS One. (2025). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0322740
Davis-Ewart, L; Ghanooni, D; Larson, M; Manuel, J; Grov, C; Carrico, AW. (2024). Getting to Yes: Pilot SMART of Motivational Enhancement Interventions Targeting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Use in Sexual Minority Men. Health Psychology, 44(3), 310.
Davis-Ewart, L., Atkins, L., Ghanooni, D., Diaz, J.E., Chuku, C.C., Balise, R., DeVries, B.A., Miller-Perusse, M., Ackley III, D., Moskowitz, J.T., McCollister, K., Fardone, E., Hirshfield, S., Horvath, K.J., & Carrico, A.W. (2024). Supporting Treatment Adherence for Resilience and Thriving (START): Protocol for a mHealth Randomized Controlled Trial. BMC Public Health.
Carrico, A.W., Ewart, L.D., Davidovich, U., Maher, L., Jonas, K., Horvath, K.J., Hirshfield, S., Guadamuz, T.E., Carney, T., Grov, C. (2024). Responding to the global epidemic of amphetamine-type stimulant use that compromises biomedical HIV prevention among sexual minority men. Lancet HIV.
Davis Ewart, L., Grov, C., Verhagen, R., Manuel, J., Viamonte, M., Dilworth, S., O’Dell, N., Valentin, O., Carr, S., Cherenack, E.M., Doblecki-Lewis, S., Nahum-Shani, I., & Carrico, A.W. (2023). Motivational enhancement interventions to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis use in sexual minority men who use stimulants: Protocol for a pilot SMART. JMIR Research Protocols, 12(1), e48459.
Davis-Ewart, L., Lee, J-Y., Viamonte, M.V., Colon-Burgos, J., Harkness, A., Kanamori, M., Duncan, D.T., Doblecki-Lewis, S., Carrico, A.W., & Grov, C. (2023) “The familiar taste of poison”: A qualitative study of multi-level motivations for stimulant use in sexual minority men living in South Florida. Harm Reduction Journal, 20, 58.
D'Angelo, A. B., Ewart, L. N. D., Koken, J., Bimbi, D., Brown, J. T., & Grov, C. (2021). Barriers and Facilitators to Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Uptake Among Black Women: A Qualitative Analysis Guided by a Socioecological Model. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 32(4), 481-494.