CAPS 8: Visions and Services for the Next 5 Years of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies with CAPS Core Directors Jae Sevelius, Ph.D., Mallory Johnson, Ph.D. Tor Neilands, Ph.D., Greg Rebchook, Ph.D., and Sheri Lippman, Ph.D.

Tuesday, Dec. 7th, 2021. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. PST

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The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), an NIMH-funded HIV prevention-focused research center since 1986, began its 8th 5-year funding cycle in September. Our Principal Investigator, Jae Sevelius, Ph.D., and the Directors of our five funded Cores will talk about new themes, aims, and plans for the next 5 years of CAPS. We’ll highlight information on the services offered by our Cores and how they can work for you and your research.

The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) aims to continue building infrastructure for successful research programs in HIV prevention and treatment by focusing on two timely themes: co-occurring and multiplicative factors that affect HIV outcomes, and HIV-related health systems. To accomplish these goals, the Center is comprised of an Administrative Core, a Developmental Core, and three research Cores: 1. Methods Core; 2. Community Engagement Core; and 3. Implementation Science and Health Systems (IS/HS) Core. Come hear about each of these funded Cores and how they can support you in your own research endeavors!

Jae Sevelius, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine in Residence at UCSF, is a licensed clinical psychologist whose research focuses on the investigation of risk and protective factors in transgender and gender diverse communities and relationships between intersectional stigma, gender affirmation, and health-related behaviors and outcomes. Most recently, their research has focused on developing and testing peer-led interventions to promote sexual health and resilience among transgender people by addressing intersectional stigma among transgender women of color and those affected by HIV in the San Francisco Bay Area and in São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Sevelius is Director of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) including the CAPS Administrative Core, and Director of the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health.

Mallory Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine in Residence at UCSF, is a licensed clinical health psychologist, whose research has focused on understanding, measuring, and improving the health of patients with chronic diseases such as HIV. His program of multidisciplinary collaborative research is focused on improving HIV treatment outcomes through patient empowerment. His teaching mission is primarily achieved through my mentoring of early-career investigators. Dr. Johnson is the Co-Director of the NIH-funded Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) and is Director of the CAPS Developmental Core. He is also Co-Director for the UCSF Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), overseeing the CFAR Developmental Core.

Torsten Neilands, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine at UCSF, trained as a social psychologist and spent eight years as a statistical consultant at an academic computing center before coming to CAPS in 2001. His methodological areas of interest are multivariate statistical models with a special interest in latent variable models for survey scale development and validation, and mixed-effects models for clustered and longitudinal data, including dyadic data. He is currently PI of an NIH-sponsored R25 research education grant to foster grant-writing and related research capacity-building for early-career faculty working in U.S. minority communities to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and STIs and to improve the lives of those living with HIV/AIDS. He also actively collaborates as a senior statistician and quantitative methods co-investigator on multiple HIV prevention and tobacco prevention research projects. Dr. Neilands is the Director of the CAPS Methods Core.

Greg Rebchook, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, trained in Sociocultural Psychology and has been working in the HIV prevention field since 1987. He is the Principal Investigator of an HRSA-funded grant to provide capacity-building assistance in four US jurisdictions. His current research interests focus on HIV prevention and engagement in care among transgender women of color and young gay/bisexual/and other men who have sex with men (MSM), especially with young African American men. Dr. Rebchook is the Director of the CAPS Community Engagement Core.

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