Adapting and Applying Intervention Mapping to Integrate Medical-Legal Partnership into Organizations Providing HIV Care: An Implementation Methodology Study Authors

Miguel Muñoz-Laboy ¹ Ashley French ² Robin Davison ² Samantha Morton ³ Emily A Arnold ⁴ Abby E Rudolph ⁵ Resa Jones ⁵ Isabel Fernandez ⁶ Omar Martinez ^2*

• ¹ Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
• ² College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States
• ³ Other, Newton, MA, United States
• ⁴ School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
• ⁵ College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• ⁶ Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

BACKGROUND: Implementation science in public health has facilitated the translation of research findings into effective public health programming and evidence-based policy decisionmaking. One of the most prominent implementation science methodologies is intervention mapping, briefly defined as a rigorous protocol that guides the design of multi-level health promotion interventions and implementation strategies. In this manuscript, we describe our use CONCLUSIONS: The work presented here provides a practical framework that can be replicated by other researchers and practitioners working on the social epidemiology of chronic illness, communicable disease, and access to and engagement with care.• Medical-legal partnership (MLP) is an underutilized public health strategy through which public interest law advocates assist patients to address legal concerns that may affect their engagement and retention in healthcare services.