Patricia’s research will gather perspectives on primary care providers from El Paso, Texas—a city on the U.S.-Mexico border—who may be the first to interact with high risk patients for HIV. Through one-on-one interviews with various primary care medical providers, she hopes to understand the socioecological factors that may affect the way HIV is perceived by medical professionals, and consequently how those ideologies are amplified into medical practice, diagnosis, and conversations of sexual health.

Faculty Advisor: Don Operario