Abstract

This is an application to continue to provide training for six predoctoral candidates (previously four predoctoral candidates) and one postdoctoral candidate (previously two postdoctoral candidates) each year in a multidisciplinary program on HIV/AIDS leading to the M.S. (postdoctorals only) or Ph.D. degrees and for postdoctoral studies in epidemiology for those with a prior doctoral degree in epidemiology. The members of the multidisciplinary faculty include leading HIV/AIDS investigators from epidemiology, biostatistics, immunology, virology, clinical medicine, neurology, psychology, and behavioral sciences. In addition to a core program of courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, the biology of HIV, behavioral and public health strategies for control of HIV, health strategies for prevention of HIV infection, and surveillance, trainees will be required to take additional courses in other biologic, sociologic, and/or mathematical disciplines, research ethics and to participate in an ongoing seminar on HIV/AIDS. Trainees may also take elective courses from among the many additional courses in HIV/AIDS offered at UCLA. Trainees will develop theses, dissertations, and postdoctoral research in HIV/AIDS in collaboration with the interdisciplinary faculty of the program. Trainees will have the opportunity to work with investigators in a wide range of HIV/AIDS projects, including the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, the Pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS project, the Popular Opinion Leader Model study and behavioral studies aimed at vulnerable populations. They may develop research proposals using data from these studies or develop other dissertation topics. Trainees will be expected to publish at least one paper from their dissertation. Special efforts will be made to recruit qualified candidates from underrepresented minority groups.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Type
Institutional National Research Service Award (T32)
Project #
5T32AI007481-07
Application #
6510129
Study Section
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Review Committee (AIDS)
Program Officer
Sharma, Opendra K
Project Start
1995-06-01
Project End
2006-07-31
Budget Start
2002-08-01
Budget End
2003-07-31
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2002
Total Cost
$231,260
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of California Los Angeles
Department
Public Health & Prev Medicine
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
119132785
City
Los Angeles
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90095

  Publications

Wise, Matthew; Finelli, Lyn; Sorvillo, Frank (2010) Prognostic factors associated with hepatitis C disease: a case-control study utilizing U.S. multiple-cause-of-death data. Public Health Rep 125:414-22
Wise, Matthew; Bialek, Stephanie; Finelli, Lyn et al. (2008) Changing trends in hepatitis C-related mortality in the United States, 1995-2004. Hepatology 47:1128-35
Vaughn, G; Detels, R (2007) Protease inhibitors and cardiovascular disease: analysis of the Los Angeles County adult spectrum of disease cohort. AIDS Care 19:492-9
Maree, Cynthia L; Daum, Robert S; Boyle-Vavra, Susan et al. (2007) Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing healthcare-associated infections. Emerg Infect Dis 13:236-42
Shafir, Shira C; Sorvillo, Frank J (2006) Viability of Trichomonas vaginalis in urine: epidemiologic and clinical implications. J Clin Microbiol 44:3787-9
Harawa, Nina T; Greenland, Sander; Bingham, Trista A et al. (2004) Associations of race/ethnicity with HIV prevalence and HIV-related behaviors among young men who have sex with men in 7 urban centers in the United States. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 35:526-36
Killian, M Scott; Monteiro, Joanita; Matud, Jose et al. (2004) Persistent alterations in the T-cell repertoires of HIV-1-infected and at-risk uninfected men. AIDS 18:161-70
Harawa, Nina T; Greenland, Sander; Cochran, Susan D et al. (2003) Do differences in relationship and partner attributes explain disparities in sexually transmitted disease among young white and black women? J Adolesc Health 32:187-91
Harawa, Nina T; Bingham, Trista A; Cochran, Susan D et al. (2002) HIV prevalence among foreign- and US-born clients of public STD clinics. Am J Public Health 92:1958-63
Wiley, D J; Grosser, Stella; Qi, Karen et al. (2002) Validity of self-reporting of episodes of external genital warts. Clin Infect Dis 35:39-45

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