Torsten Brian Neilands, PhD
Associate Professor
My current research activities fall into four distinct domains: (1) quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development, (2) directorship of the CAPS Methods Core, (3) fostering and conducting behavioral HIV/AIDS-prevention research in racial and ethnicity minority populations and communities, and (4) advanced quantitative methodological, statistical, and data analytic support for epidemiological and behavioral HIV prevention research efforts.
Research interests
Scale development, scale reliability, longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modeling, multivariate statistics, factor analysis, dyadic data analysis, influential case diagnosis, behavioral statistics, behavioral HIV/AIDS research, behavioral HIV/AIDS-prevention research in racial and ethnic minority populations.
Current research
- Collaborative HIV Prevention in Minority Communities
- HIV Risk Among Male Parolees and their Female Partners
- The Gay Couples Study
- The Balance Project: A Randomized Clinical Trial of an HIV Treatment Side Effects Coping Intervention
- The FOCUS Project: A Mindfulness Approach to HIV Treatment Side Effects
- The PATH Project - Preparing Patients to Start Antiretroviral Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- AIDS Stigma Among Health Professionals in Puerto Rico
- North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design
- Novel Strategies to Prevent Malaria and Improve HIV Outcomes in Africa
- Relationship Factors and HIV Treatment Adherence
- Effects of housing and HIV on risk behavior and victimization of indigent women
- Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute (Reversing Tobacco Market Research on Young Adults)
Education
- 1993, PhD (Psychology), University of Texas at Austin
- 1990, M.A (Quantitative Methods), University of Texas at Austin
- 1988, B.A. (With Honors, Psychology), University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1988, B.A. (English Literature), University of California, Santa Cruz
Publications
Articles by Torsten Brian Neilands.
Contact
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)
University of California , San Francisco
50 Beale Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco , CA 94105
Voice: (415) 597-9236
FAX: (415) 597-9213
email: tor [at] ucsf.edu
