Consultation Request

CHIPTS offers a wide variety of consultations in different fields from our five different cores. If you would like to request a consultation, please review the lists below and send an email to the provided contact and we will be with you shortly.

The Methods Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Analytic strategy of multiple endpoints that are common in studies of HIV-associated comorbidities
  • Expertise in HIV statistics regarding biomarkers and biomedical interventions
  • Implementation Science
  • Social media and mobile technology application to HIV prevention research
  • The intersection of technology and implementation science to address HIV intervention delivery in real-world settings
  • Grant development
  • Research hypothesis formulation, measurement issues
  • Sampling plan / sample size calculations
  • Analytic plan
  • Study Implementation – Selection of data collection platforms, including computerized
    and mobile assessments
  • Analysis – Selection of appropriate models, including analysis of multiple
    biomedical / behavioral HIV end points
  • Analyses to address data collection issues, including

To request a Methods Core consultation, please contact Dr. Sung-Jae Lee at sjlee@mednet.ucla.edu

The Combination Prevention Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Advise design and conduct of combination HIV prevention research
  • Guide study of substance use and mental health in the context of HIV prevention trials and projects
  • Provide peer review services for manuscripts, grants, local HIV prevention service funding opportunities
  • Adapt domestic HIV prevention strategies for use in foreign settings and adaptation of foreign HIV prevention strategies to guide domestic approaches
  • Advise and train cultural competence for research and intervention with stigmatized communities, especially MSM, transgender individuals and those with substance use and mental health disorders
  • Conduct community education and workforce training
  • Mentor students and faculty
  • Facilitate linkages between community members interested in HIV prevention research and ongoing research opportunities

To request a Combination Prevention Core consultation, please contact Damilola Jolayemi at ojolayemi@mednet.ucla.edu

The Policy Impact Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Integrate policy issues into CHIPTS research agendas
  • Expertise in analyzing insurance claims and encounter data and in using CEA
  • Fill gaps in other research agendas, including PRC and government partners
  • Assist government partners in assessing long run effects of policy initiatives
  • Assist in identifying problems amenable to policy solutions
  • Disseminate policy findings
  • Conduct cost-effectiveness and behavioral economics training
  • Support community partners in communicating the evidence base for various policy solutions to policy makers, who may or may not adopt an evidence-based policy to address the problem.

To request a Policy Impact Core consultation, please contact Diane Tan at diane.tan@ucla.edu

The Development Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Provide peer review and development support
  • Conduct Development workshops
  • Coordinate conference and think tank activities
  • Develop web-based resources for capacity building and knowledge diffusion
  • Provide training and networking opportunities for trainees, investigators, and local and global partners

To request a Development Core consultation, please contact Dr. Norweeta Milburn at nmilburn@mednet.ucla.edu

The Administrative Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Mentor future leaders in conducting domestic and global HIV research

To request a Administrative Core consultation, please contact Uyen Kao at ukao@mednet.ucla.edu

Methods Core

The Methods Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Analytic strategy of multiple endpoints that are common in studies of HIV-associated comorbidities
  • Expertise in HIV statistics regarding biomarkers and biomedical interventions
  • Implementation Science
  • Social media and mobile technology application to HIV prevention research
  • The intersection of technology and implementation science to address HIV intervention delivery in real-world settings
  • Grant development
  • Research hypothesis formulation, measurement issues
  • Sampling plan / sample size calculations
  • Analytic plan
  • Study Implementation – Selection of data collection platforms, including computerized
    and mobile assessments
  • Analysis – Selection of appropriate models, including analysis of multiple
    biomedical / behavioral HIV end points
  • Analyses to address data collection issues, including

To request a Methods Core consultation, please contact Dr. Sung-Jae Lee at sjlee@mednet.ucla.edu

Combination Prevention Core

The Combination Prevention Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Advise design and conduct of combination HIV prevention research
  • Guide study of substance use and mental health in the context of HIV prevention trials and projects
  • Provide peer review services for manuscripts, grants, local HIV prevention service funding opportunities
  • Adapt domestic HIV prevention strategies for use in foreign settings and adaptation of foreign HIV prevention strategies to guide domestic approaches
  • Advise and train cultural competence for research and intervention with stigmatized communities, especially MSM, transgender individuals and those with substance use and mental health disorders
  • Conduct community education and workforce training
  • Mentor students and faculty
  • Facilitate linkages between community members interested in HIV prevention research and ongoing research opportunities

To request a Combination Prevention Core consultation, please contact Damilola Jolayemi at ojolayemi@mednet.ucla.edu

Policy Impact Core

The Policy Impact Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Integrate policy issues into CHIPTS research agendas
  • Expertise in analyzing insurance claims and encounter data and in using CEA
  • Fill gaps in other research agendas, including PRC and government partners
  • Assist government partners in assessing long run effects of policy initiatives
  • Assist in identifying problems amenable to policy solutions
  • Disseminate policy findings
  • Conduct cost-effectiveness and behavioral economics training
  • Support community partners in communicating the evidence base for various policy solutions to policy makers, who may or may not adopt an evidence-based policy to address the problem.

To request a Policy Impact Core consultation, please contact Diane Tan at diane.tan@ucla.edu

Development Core

The Development Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Provide peer review and development support
  • Conduct Development workshops
  • Coordinate conference and think tank activities
  • Develop web-based resources for capacity building and knowledge diffusion
  • Provide training and networking opportunities for trainees, investigators, and local and global partners

To request a Development Core consultation, please contact Dr. Norweeta Milburn at nmilburn@mednet.ucla.edu

Administrative Core

The Administrative Core offers consultations in the following areas:

  • Mentor future leaders in conducting domestic and global HIV research

To request a Administrative Core consultation, please contact Uyen Kao at ukao@mednet.ucla.edu