Selected Works by Elizabeth King Humphrey

Addressing Diabetes Care Challenges

Approximately 34 million American adults have been diagnosed with diabetes. On average, managing diabetes costs more than $9,600 a year per patient, and costs for a plan member with diabetes are 2.3 times higher for payors than for someone without diabetes. Traditional diabetes management programs, which have changed little in the past decade, have resulted in only 23 percent of U.S. patients with diabetes achieving comprehensive diabetes and cardiovascular risk factor goals. Members who do not

Eliminating New HIV Infections by 2030

In the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic — before the drug discoveries, antiretroviral, and other treatments — the mortality rate for patients was 95.5 percent. During those years, many patients would not live more than a year. As treatment options evolved and expanded the mortality rate fell, and most can now live to nearly their full life span. A key milestone in the fight against the epidemic arrived a decade ago when the first preventive treatment — a pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) — was