The mission of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies is to conduct research to prevent new HIV infections, improve health outcomes among those infected, and reduce disparities.
This is how we do it:
- CAPS provides core support for multidisciplinary and high-impact HIV research, enhances the excellence of research projects, trains a new generation of HIV scientists, and assists implementing partners.
- Our Administrative Core provides strong leadership and management to stimulate innovative research and ensure scientific rigor and sound fiscal operations.
- Our Developmental Core fosters innovative, high-impact, multidisciplinary HIV research by providing funds for innovative pilot work, sponsoring training and education, and ensuring the scientific excellence of research.
- Our Methods Core provides comprehensive methodological training and consultation in research design, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and state-of-the-art data collection and management.
- Our Policy and Ethics Core stimulates and supports policy-relevant research, identifies and analyzes the policy and ethics implications of research, and ensures the highest ethical conduct of research.
- Our Technology and Information Exchange (Domestic Response) Core responds to the domestic epidemic by disseminating information, fostering community collaborative research, providing technical assistance and capacity-building to community-based organizations, and learning from community expertise.
- Our Global Response Core responds to the global epidemic by fostering collaborative research with scientists in developing countries, completing and disseminating Cochrane Collaborative scientific reviews, and providing technical assistance, capacity building, and an evidence base to implementing partners.
Last modified: May 5, 2011