About PCSI

Definition

Program collaboration and service integration (PCSI) is a mechanism of organizing and blending interrelated health issues, separate activities, and services in order to maximize public health impact through new and established linkages between programs to facilitate the delivery of services.

NCHHSTP Priority

Program collaboration and service integration (PCSI) is a major strategic priority for the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP). PCSI is focused on improving collaboration between programs in order to enhance integrated service delivery at the client level, or point of service delivery. The goal of PCSI is to provide prevention services that are holistic, evidence-based, comprehensive, and high quality to appropriate populations at every interaction with the health care system.

NCHHSTP Associate Director for Program Integration

Gustavo Aquino, MPH, serves as the NCHHSTP Associate Director for Program Integration. Mr. Aquino joined CDC in 1990 and most recently served NCHHSTP as a Team Leader in the Prevention Program Branch of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention and in Moscow with the Division of TB Elimination, providing oversight and support for TB control demonstration projects in collaboration with national and international partners. As the in-country Public Health Advisor, he played a key role in bringing life-saving drugs to persons impacted by the TB epidemic in Russia. His experience also includes multiple assignments in state programs and in the field, conducting sexually transmitted disease prevention work in Florida and Chicago, and TB control and prevention work in New York City, New Jersey and Puerto Rico. He is a graduate of the University of Puerto Rico, where he received a Masters in Public Health.