Adam Leonard, MSN, MPH
Assistant Professor
Community Health Systems
School of Nursing

Education & Training

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• MS Pediatric Nurse Practitioner University of California, San Francisco 06/2014
• MPH Community Health Promotion University of Minnesota 05/2010
• BA Peace Studies and Political Science Saint John's University 05/2005
• PhD Nursing Johns Hopkins University

Publications (12)

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Substance-Related DisordersMethamphetamineHomeless YouthTuberculosisAdolescent HealthHealth Services AccessibilityPre-Exposure ProphylaxisRifampinTuberculosis, Multidrug-ResistantMedication AdherenceSexual and Gender MinoritiesMental DisordersSouth AfricaAnti-HIV AgentsHIV Infections

• Structural Competency as a Global Framework for Syndemic HIV Care: A Critical Synthesis.
  The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 2026 Melino K, Leonard A
• Prevalence and correlates of methamphetamine use in transitional age youth experiencing homelessness or housing instability in San Francisco, CA.
  Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2022 Leonard A, Broussard J, Jain J, Kumar S, Santos GM, Dawson-Rose C
• Trauma, substance use, and mental health symptoms in transitional age youth experiencing homelessness.
  Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) 2020 Dawson-Rose C, Shehadeh D, Hao J, Barnard J, Khoddam-Khorasani LL, Leonard A, Clark K, Kersey E, Mousseau H, Frank J, Miller A, Carrico A, Schustack A, Cuca YP
• Missed PrEP opportunities and vulnerability to HIV during rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis treatment in South Africa.
  Frontiers in public health 2026 Leonard A, Lowensen K, Di Giacomo E, Duroseau B, Mlandu N, Kadernani Y, Arcêncio R, Budhathoki C, Evans D, Ndjeka N, Farley JE
• Confronting the TB-HIV Syndemic in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Call to Action in a Time of Crisis.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2026 Enane LA, Leonard A, Diero L, Marcy O, Yotebieng M

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• Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: Clinical Considerations for Overcoming Barriers to Uptake and Persistence.
  The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 2025 Albright N, Leonard A, Bergman AJ
• Overview of the Epidemiology and Clinical Care Considerations for Adolescents and Young Adults Living with or at Risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
  The Nursing clinics of North America 2024 Leonard A, Duroseau B
• Closing the Opioid Treatment Gap Through Advance Practice Nursing Activation: Curricular Design and Initial Outcomes.
  Journal of addictions nursing 2023 Tierney M, Castillo E, Leonard A, Huang E
• The syndemic effects of adverse mental health conditions and polysubstance use on being at risk of clinical depression among marginally housed and homeless transitional age youth living in San Francisco, California.
  PloS one 2022 Jain JP, Santos GM, Hao J, Leonard A, Miller AM, Cuca YP, Dawson-Rose C
• Comparing substance use and mental health among sexual and gender minority and heterosexual cisgender youth experiencing homelessness.
  PloS one 2021 Hao J, Beld M, Khoddam-Khorasani L, Flentje A, Kersey E, Mousseau H, Frank J, Leonard A, Kevany S, Dawson-Rose C
• Initiation of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in adolescents and young adults: Barriers and opportunities.
  Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners 2020 Mocorro I, Sandhu PJ, Rowniak S, Leonard A
• HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Medication for Adolescents and Young Adults: A Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
  The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2018 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine