To meet the challenge of global AIDS, multi-level approaches to prevention must take advantage of newavenues of research and incorporate emerging technologies in outreach and communication, datacollection, intervention, and scientific cooperation around the world. More than ever, establishedresearchers are called upon to learn and use new technologies that increase their capacity to conductresearch with geographically dispersed participants and collaborators in the US and around the world.Both established and more junior investigators must be positioned to address emerging research needs,work within appropriate cultural contexts, maximize the use of new technologies, and effectivelydisseminate the products of their work. The Development Core will meet these needs by working withHIV Center investigators to stimulate new research and coordinate existing resources, thereby optimizingscientific output and contributions. The Core will improve the ability of HIV Center investigators,particularly new investigators to initiate new lines of investigation through a Pilot Studies program,grantsmanship training, and assistance with responses to RFAs. It will encourage publication by juniorinvestigators through a Manuscript Writing Workshop and a Publications Award. The Core willstrengthen the ability of investigators to conduct research in international and multicultural environmentsthrough an Intercultural Sensitivity Training. Given the rapidly changing, and still incompletely understood,role of emerging information technology, the Core will place a special new emphasis in the period aheadon maximizing the potential while avoiding the pitfalls of the Internet and other recent technologicalbreakthroughs. Therefore, another major emphasis of the Development Core will be to enhance thecapacity of HIV Center investigators to employ state-of-the-art information technology for data collection,outreach, intervention and scientific coordination to advance the HIV Center's social and behavioralscience research agenda. In coordination with the Statistics, Epidemiology, and Data Core, theDevelopment Core will provide consultations, demonstrations of new technology, and seminars about theinnovative use of information technology. Finally, the Development Core will assure integration ofpostdoctoral fellows and other trainees into the HIV Center with attention to access to Center Cores,faculty, and other resources. The Core offers a venue for coordination among several of key personnelwho work with fellows and other trainees, and activities of the Core will serve as a major point of entryto the broader work of the Center.
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