The SBS Core’s mission is to provide methodological expertise, promote population engagement and collaboration, and offer training in social and behavioral sciences specific to HIV research with key populations. By key populations, we mean groups of people who are disproportionately impacted by HIV. To expand the reach, impact, and sustainability of our Center’s HIV prevention and treatment research, the SBS Core also offers investigators access to a Community Advisory Boards (CAB). The SBS Core directs our Center’s work focused on populations disproportionately affected by HIV and is the only SD CFAR Core that provides expertise in sociobehavioral aspects of HIV.
To accomplish its mission, the SBS Core is organized into three units – Research Methods, Population Engagement, and Mentoring.
RESEARCH METHODS UNIT: Promotes excellence in social and behavioral HIV science by providing methodological expertise and services.
POPULATION ENGAGEMENT UNIT: Strengthens the engagement of populations disproportionately impacted by HIV and the organizations that serve them across the research continuum by providing Community Advisory Board consultation, supporting academic-organizational partnerships, and advancing dissemination and translation of HIV research.
MENTORING UNIT: Mentors and trains the next generation of sociobehavioral HIV investigators in research methods and participatory engagement approaches to help end the HIV epidemic.
SBS Admin Team
The SBS Core provides a variety of services, including:
- Study population recruitment
- Development of scales, surveys, and/or questionnaires
- Grant preparation assistance
- Study implementation planning
- Consultation on study design
- Qualitative data preparation and/or analysis
- Interpretation and/or dissemination of findings
- Manuscript assistance
- Community Advisory Board (CAB) guidance
- Mentorship
- Spanish translation (e.g. surveys, interview guides, consent forms, recruitment materials)
- Transcription of audio files
And more!
To access our services, please submit a Service Request form.
The Sociobehavioral Science Core of the UC San Diego Center for AIDS Research seeks collaboration.
- Anyone who is HIV positive and needs linkages to HIV- and related care
- Members of governmental or non-governmental organizations—that serves people living with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones—looking for collaborative research
- Young HIV researchers or public health scientists seeking general guidance, or established investigators seeking scientific advice and guidance
Please contact us if you have any questions about the San Diego CFAR Sociobehavioral Science Core.
