CAPS Cores
The CAPS center grant is composed of six Cores that are meant to foster scientific interaction, stimulate innovative and excellent research, and enhance the quality of research.
- Administrative Core - The Administrative Core provides scientific leadership, monitoring and evaluation and organizational management with fiscal oversight, personnel administration, and space administration.
- Developmental Core - The Developmental Core promotes innovative interdisciplinary, international and US ethnic minority research, as well as the capacity to respond quickly to changes in the epidemic.
- Methods Core - The Methods Core provides technical support to CAPS researchers in: sample size planning, statistical and epidemiological analysis and study design; design and analysis of qualitative research; biomedical and behavioral measurement selection; and data management.
- Technology and Information Exchange (TIE) Core - The TIE Core helps apply HIV prevention research to practice, and helps integrate community experience into HIV prevention science via three mechanisms: information dissemination, technical assistance to CBOs and scientists and community collaborative research support.
- Policy and Ethics Core - The Policy and Ethics Core assures that HIV prevention and policy research at CAPS meets the highest ethical standards, addresses pressing policy questions, and has a high impact on the policy-making process.
- International Core - The International Core provides scientific and administrative support to CAPS scientists, fellows, and graduate students during grant development and implementation of international research.
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)
Stephen F. Morin, PhD, Director
Susan Kegeles, PhD, Co-Director
AIDS Research Institute
University of California,
San Francisco
50 Beale Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 597-9100; (415) 597-9213 - fax
www.caps.ucsf.edu