Megan Huchko
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Global Health
Director, Medical Scholars Program, Duke Global Health Institute
Director, Center for Global Reproductive Health at Duke
Associate Chief, Division of Women's Community and Population Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Ob/Gyn Clinical Research Unit
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Megan Huchko
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Global Health
Director, Medical Scholars Program, Duke Global Health Institute
Director, Center for Global Reproductive Health at Duke
Associate Chief, Division of Women's Community and Population Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director, Ob/Gyn Clinical Research Unit
Megan Huchko, MD, MPH, has a dual appointment as an associate professor in the department of obstetrics & gynecology and the Duke Global Health Institute. Huchko, who earned her bachelor's degree at Duke, completed medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and residency training at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Prior to coming to Duke, she was an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she completed her fellowship in reproductive infectious disease and joined the faculty in 2009. She practices as an OB/GYN generalist and specializes in cervical cancer prevention through her clinical work and global women's health research.
Dr. Huchko's research focuses on optimizing the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer among vulnerable women in settings where health disparities occur. She has been working with the Kenya Medical Research Institute through the Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) program and Ministry of Health Clinics in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya since 2006. She designed and implemented a cervical cancer screening and prevention (CCSP) program for HIV-infected women enrolled in care at FACES. The CCSP program has provided a clinical resource, as well as a cohort, to evaluate the epidemiology of cervical cancer among HIV-infected women, the feasibility of integrating cervical cancer prevention programs into HIV and general outpatient clinics, the safety of various diagnostic and treatment modalities, the efficacy of low-cost/low-resource screening modalities in HIV-infected women and provider and patient-level barriers and facilitators to uptake of cervical cancer prevention activities. Currently, she is carrying out several large studies in partnership with the Ministries of Health in central Uganda and western Kenya to evaluate the optimal implementation strategy for HPV-based cervical cancer screening in rural settings.
Projects
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An Exploration of Community Health Volunteer Characteristics, Motivations, and Experiences in Western Kenya
Kenya
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An Exploration of Community Health Volunteer Characteristics, Motivations, and Experiences in Western Kenya
Kenya
- An Exploration of Community Health Volunteer Characteristics, Motivations, and Experiences in Western Kenya
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Evaluating a Community-Driven Cervical Cancer Prevention Strategy in Western Kenya
United States, Kenya
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Prevention and Detection of Cervical Cancer through Self-Administered Screening in the Community
United States
Publications
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Isaacson S, Adewumi K, Smith JS, Novak C, Oketch S, Huchko MJ. A Qualitative Exploration of Barriers to Treatment Among HPV-Positive Women in a Cervical Cancer Screening Study in Western Kenya. Oncologist. 2023 Jan 18;28(1):e9–18.O’Shea M, Omoto J, Huchko M, Gwer S. Development and initial validation of a pictorial survey to assess for symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence in western Kenya. Int Urogynecol J. 2022 Sep;33(9):2515–23.Adewumi K, Nishimura H, Oketch SY, Adsul P, Huchko M. Barriers and Facilitators to Cervical Cancer Screening in Western Kenya: a Qualitative Study. J Cancer Educ. 2022 Aug;37(4):1122–8.Reid HW, Proeschold-Bell RJ, Makarushka C, Melgar Vega KD, Huchko M, Jeronimo J, et al. Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to Inform the Design of the Mobile Inspección Visual con Ácido Acético System: Mixed Methods Case Study. Jmir Form Res. 2022 Jun 23;6(6):e32577.
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