Current Research Projects
The following is a list of the research projects currently being conducted at CAPS. This list is updated yearly, and so may not be completely current. The Principal Investigator for each project is listed in parentheses after the project title. The PDF description comes from the 2008 Research Portfolio, a compendium of 73 current research projects being conducted at CAPS. Each one-page summary describes the project, lists staff, gives preliminary findings, and explains why the research is important. The entire Research Portfolio is available as a PDF document only.
Example: Name of study--if linked, goes to study website (Name of PI) [link to one-page description]
- Acute HCV Infection in Young Injectors: The Acute UFO Study (Page-Shafer) [PDF description]
- Men of Asia and the Pacific Testing for HIV (MATH) (Do) [PDF description]
- Studying Youth in Northern California: The SYNC Project (Page-Shafer) [PDF description]
Evaluation
- AIDS Education and Training Center, National Evaluation Center (Myers) [PDF description]
- Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS (Rutherford) [PDF description]
- Community-level Outcome Monitoring Project (CLOMP) (Rebchook) [PDF description]
- Enhancing Prevention with Positives Evaluation Center (EPPEC) (Morin) [PDF description]
- Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of PEPFAR Prevention Programs (Rutherford) [PDF description]
- Evaluation of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (Morin) [PDF description]
- Evaluation of Patient Perspectives on Routine HIV Screening in Health Care Settings (Myers) [PDF description]
- HITEC- Multisite evaluation of IT networks in care clinics (Myers) [PDF description]
- Local Evaluation Online (LEO) (Morin) [PDF description]
- State Minority AIDS Project (Rutherford) [PDF description]
- Using Technology to Streamline Client Data Collection and Improve HIV Test Counseling (Sheon) [PDF description]
International
- Adherence to HAART in Bangalore, India (Ekstrand) [PDF description]
- AIDS Stigma and Gender: Health Consequences in Urban India (Ekstrand) [PDF description]
- The Cambodian Young Women’s Health Study (Page-Shafer) [PDF description]
- Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Peruvian Men (Page-Shafer) [PDF description]
- Context and Correlates of Health Behaviors in South India (Ekstrand) [PDF description]
- Couples-Based HIV Prevention in South Africa (Darbes) [PDF description]
- Developing a Comprehensive Couples-Based Intervention in South Africa (Darbes) [PDF description]
- The Eastern Caribbean – Community Access Project (EC-CAP): Increasing Access to HIV/AIDS Services through Evidence-Based Programming (Myers) [PDF description]
- Epidemiologic and Formative Studies for HIV Prevention Research in Bangkok, Thailand (Page-Shafer) [PDF description]
- Epidemiologic and Formative Studies for HIV Prevention Research in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Page-Shafer) [PDF description]
- Family-Based HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Patients at Risk for Tuberculosis (Charlebois) [PDF description]
- Formative Research to Assess HIV Risk among MSM in Nepal (Wilson) [PDF description]
- A Formative Study for a Community Mobilization HIV Intervention for Young Women in Rural Kenya (Bangi) [PDF description]
- HIV Prevention among Township MSM in South Africa (Lane) [PDF description]
- The MAMAS Study - Effects of HIV/AIDS Stigma on Use of Services by Pregnant Women in Kenya (Turan) [PDF description]
- NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial in Peru (Kegeles) [PDF description]
- Project Accept: A Phase III Randomized Controlled Trial of Community Mobilization, Mobile Testing, Same-Day Results, and Post-Test Support for HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand (Morin) [PDF description]
- REAC: Prevalence and Duration of False-Positive HIV Test Results in Acute Malaria (Charlebois) [PDF description]
- Risk Reduction for HIV Serodiscordant Couples Attempting Conception (Brubaker) [PDF description]
Methods
- Application of Weighted Time Series to Address Bias in Evaluation of Clinic and Community-level Research (Shade) [PDF description]
- PART: Process Analysis of Rapid Testing Study (Sheon) [PDF description]
Optimizing Health Outcomes
- The Balance Project: A Randomized Clinical Trial of an HIV Treatment Side Effects Coping Intervention (Johnson) [PDF description]
- Duo Project: Relationship Factors and HIV Treatment Adherence (Johnson) [PDF description]
- The FOCUS Project (Johnson) [PDF description]
- The PATH Project - Preparing Patients to Start Antiretroviral Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial (Johnson) [PDF description]
Policy
- Community Prevention Policy & Programs in Risk Settings (Woods) [PDF description]
- A Formative Study of the Role of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation in the Provision of Prevention Counseling with HIV-infected Patients (Shade) [PDF description]
- Severity
of Need: California Health Care Financing and Policy Research Initiative
(Morin) [PDF description]
Primary Prevention
- BRUTHAS Randomized Control Study (Arnold) [PDF description]
- CaliforniaMen.net: Web-Based, Structural HIV Prevention in MSM’s Networks (Rebchook) [PDF description]
- CHATS: Developing a Network Intervention to Promote Women’s Health (Choi) [PDF description]
- A Community Level HIV Prevention Intervention for Young Black MSM (Kegeles) [PDF description]
- Computer-based vs Interpersonal HIV preventive intervention for at-risk youth (Lightfoot) [PDF description]
- Countering a Hidden Risk: Initiating Change Among Meth-Using MSM (Paul) [PDF description]
- The Development of an HIV Prevention Intervention for African American Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (Kegeles) [PDF description]
- Faith-based HIV prevention for Young African American MSM (Kegeles) [PDF description]
- HOLLA: Developing an HIV/Hepatitis C/STD Prevention Intervention for Men Recently Released from Prison (Myers) [PDF description]
- Maintenance Strategies for Homeless Youth's Reductions in HIV Risk (Lightfoot) [PDF description]
- Multi-Level Prevention in Culture and Context for Latino MSM (Binson) [PDF description]
Research Traineeships
- Collaborative HIV Prevention in Minority Communities Program (Neilands) [PDF description]
- ICOHRTA Brazilian Scientists Program (Rutherford) [PDF description]
- International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies (ITAPS) (Rutherford) [PDF description]
- Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Science (TAPS) (Kegeles) [PDF description]
Risk Behavior
- The Ballroom Community Project: Social Networks and Social Support for Young African American MSM (Arnold) [PDF description]
- Exploring the Core of High Risk Networks (Woods) [PDF description]
- Feasibility and Analysis of Interviews with Transgender MSM (Sevelius) [PDF description]
- Feasibility and Analysis of Interviews with Transgender Women Who Have Been Incarcerated (Sevelius) [PDF description]
- Gay Couples Study (Hoff) [PDF description]
- HIV Risk Among Male Parolees and their Female Partners (Comfort) [PDF description]
- International Travel Research to Inform Prevention (I-TRIP) (Truong) [PDF description]
- Social/Sexual Networks and HIV Risk: Men of Color (Choi) [PDF description]
Technical Assistance
- AETC HIV Recommendations Training Initiative (Reyes) [PDF description]
- Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention (Reyes) [PDF description]
- Global AIDS Project (Rutherford) [PDF description]
- Prevention with Positives in Mozambique (Dawson-Rose) [PDF description]
- Rapid HIV Testing in Labor and Delivery (RTLD) in California (Dawson-Rose) [PDF description]
- Strengthening capacity to deliver HIV research counseling and testing in international biomedical prevention and treatment trials (Myers) [PDF description]
- The Transitions Project: Enhancing HIV Prevention in Transgender Communities (Kegeles) [PDF description]
- TRIP 2: Putting Community-Level HIV Prevention Research into Practice (Kegeles) [PDF description]