Oluwadamilola Jolayemi, MS

Oluwadamilola Jolayemi, MS, is a Program Coordinator with the Combination Prevention Core at CHIPTS.  Her work includes providing project support, including proposal development, publication compliance, regulatory management, research coordination, and data safety monitoring.  She holds a Master of Science in Global Health and has global health experience in infectious diseases and health education. As a Master’s practicum, she developed a comprehensive HIV/AIDS education curriculum and trained community health workers in order to reduce the risk of HIV infections in the sub-Saharan African nation of Uganda. She also has prior work experience as a Computer Science elementary school educator with ample knowledge of technological skills and tools.

Contact: OJolayemi@mednet.ucla.edu

 

Norweeta G. Milburn, PhD

Norweeta G. Milburn, PhD, is a Professor-in-Residence Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA Semel Institute Nathanson Family Resilience Center in the Division of Population and Behavioral Health. She received her Ph.D. in Community Psychology from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Her research interests include homelessness, substance abuse, mental health and family-based behavioral interventions.

Dr. Milburn has had grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) as a principal investigator or co-investigator.   She has lead studies that have examined paths into and out of homelessness, as well as the risk for HIV among homeless youth in the U.S. and Australia; designed and implemented a behavioral intervention for homeless adolescents at risk for HIV and their families; and designed and tested recruitment strategies for behavioral substance abuse interventions.  She is currently adapting and testing a behavioral intervention for youth exiting the juvenile justice system and their families. She is the co-Director of a NIDA funded training program, the UCLA HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program (HA-STTP).  HA-STTP provides training and mentorship for early career ethnic and culturally diverse researchers and post-doctoral scholars to conduct research on reducing substance abuse and HIV transmission in underserved populations at risk for traumatic stress and health disparities. She is also the Director of a California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) funded Health Disparities Core that is part of the UCLA Center for AIDS Research (CFAR). She is a co-investigator for NIMH and Fogarty training grants on trauma and mental health in South Africa (Wyatt/PI) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Adolescent Trials Network (Rotheram-Borus/PI).  She has numerous publications and presentations in the areas of homelessness, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and mental health. She has been both a standing and ad hoc member of peer review committees at NIMH and NIDA.

Dr. Milburn is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association (APA). She has been a member of the APA Committee on Children, Youth and Families, and chaired the APA 2009 Presidential Task Force on Psychology’s Contribution to End Homelessness.  Her honors include being an inaugural member of the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and the Community, Culture and Prevention Science Award from the Society for Prevention Research.

Contact: nmilburn@mednet.ucla.edu

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Swendeman, D., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Arnold, E. M., Fernández, M. I., Comulada, W. S., Ishimoto, K., Gertsch, W., Murphy, D. A., Ocasio, M., Lee, S. J., Lewis, K. A., & Adolescent HIV Medicine Trials Network (ATN) CARES Team (2024). Strategies to Facilitate Service Utilization Among Youth at Risk for HIV: A Randomized Controlled Trial (ATN 149). AIDS and behavior, 10.1007/s10461-024-04545-2. Advance online publication.


2. Goodrum, N. M., Cooper, D. K., Edmunds, S., Wippold, G. M., Bradshaw, J., Nguyen, J. K., Milburn, N., & Are, F. (2024). Achieving Equity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health by Addressing Racism Through Prevention Science. Adversity and resilience science, 5(1), 1–10.


3. Swendeman, D., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Arnold, E. M., Fernández, M. I., Comulada, W. S., Lee, S. J., Ocasio, M. A., Ishimoto, K., Gertsch, W., Duan, N., Reback, C. J., Murphy, D. A., Lewis, K. A., & Adolescent HIV Medicine Trials Network (ATN) CARES Study Team (2024). Optimal strategies to improve uptake of and adherence to HIV prevention among young people at risk for HIV acquisition in the USA (ATN 149): a randomised, controlled, factorial trial. The Lancet. Digital health, 6(3), e187–e200.

Last updated: 1/16/2025

Roger Detels, MD, MS

Roger Detels, MD, MS, Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, began his research career at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Taipei, Taiwan in 1966.  In 1969 he joined the research staff of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Stroke. In 1971, he moved to the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, his current affiliation.  During his tenure at UCLA, he has served as Chair of Epidemiology (1971-1980, 2000-2005, 2010-present) and as Dean of the School of Public Health (1980-1985).

Professor Detels has also served as president of the Society of Epidemiologic Research (1977-1978) as secretary-treasurer of the Association of Schools of Public Health (1983-1985), as treasurer of the International Epidemiologic Association (IEA) (1983-1990), and as president of the IEA from 1990-1993.  He  served on the Council of the National Institute of  Environmental Health Sciences from 1990-1994, on the Board of Directors for the American College of Epidemiology from 1987-1989, and as chair of the Science Review Panel for the Environmental Protection Agency from 1982-1985. In 1993 he was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2008, he was selected for the Abraham Lilienfeld Award for Excellence in Epidemiology by the American Collage of Epidemiology and in 2011 was the Cruikshank Lecturer for the International Epidemiological Association.

Professor Detels began his research in HIV/AIDS in 1981 when he initiated a natural history study of AIDS in young homosexual men in Los Angeles.  In 1983 he became the principal investigator of the Los Angeles Center for the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), one of the largest natural history studies of HIV/AIDS in the world.  He has published over 275 papers on the epidemiology, natural history, immunology, genetics and biology of HIV-1 infection out of a total of more than 450 research papers.

In 1988 Professor Detels initiated the UCLA/Fogarty International Training Program in Epidemiology Related to HIV/AIDS with funding from the Fogarty International Center.  The program has trained over 100 health professionals at the masters and doctoral level at UCLA from Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, India, China, Vietnam, Laos, Hungary, and Brazil who have become public health leaders in their respective countries.  He has assisted the governments of Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Indonesia in the development of their HIV/AIDS sentinel surveillance systems. He has received awards from the governments of Thailand, Cambodia and China for his contributions to training and research. Professor Detels continues to be active in  training and research both in the United States and globally.

Professor Detels continues to be very active in HIV/AIDS and public health research in both the United States and Asia.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Martínez, L. E., Comin-Anduix, B., Güemes-Aragon, M., Ibarrondo, J., Detels, R., Mimiaga, M. J., & Epeldegui, M. (2024). Characterization of unique B-cell populations in the circulation of people living with HIV prior to non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis. Frontiers in immunology, 15, 1441994.


2. Abraham, A. G., Tong, W., Stosor, V., Friedman, M. R., Detels, R., & Plankey, M. (2024). Vision Problems As a Contributor to Lower Engagement in Care Among Aging Men Living with HIV. Ophthalmic epidemiology, 1–10. Advance online publication.


3. Qian, Y., Detels, R., Comulada, W. S., Hidalgo, M. A., Lee, S. J., Biello, K. B., Yonko, E. A., Friedman, M. R., Palella, F. J., Plankey, M. W., & Mimiaga, M. J. (2024). Longitudinal Analysis of Overlapping Psychosocial Factors Predicting Incident Hospitalization Among Mixed HIV Serostatus Men who have Sex with Men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. AIDS and behavior, 10.1007/s10461-024-04356-5. Advance online publication.

Last updated: 1/15/2024

Dallas Swendeman, PhD, MPH

Dallas Swendeman, PhD, MPH, is an applied multi-disciplinary behavioral scientist whose research currently focuses on leveraging mobile phones’ nearly ubiquitous integration into our daily routines for innovative intervention and research methods, specifically for prevention, self-management, and treatment adherence and retention interventions targeting HIV/AIDS, substance use, sexual risk behaviors, mental health and quality of life. He has a parallel line of research on empowerment and community-led structural interventions with sex workers in India (www.durbar.org), and recently began collaboration with partners in Cambodia.  Dr. Swendeman has over 20 years of professional research implementation experience in HIV prevention and self-management interventions, with his earliest experiences focused on youth living with HIV (YLH) and developing and testing behavioral interventions that have been scaled nationally by the CDC in the Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) program (CLEAR and Together Learning Choices).

Dr. Swendeman Co-Directs the CHIPTS Development Core and the Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment at the University of California Global Health Institute.  He is PI on a NICHD-funded Adolescent HIV Medicine Trials Network (ATN CARES) project testing text-messaging, online peer-support, and coaching interventions with a cohort of 1,500 HIV-negative high-risk youth in Los Angeles and New Orleans.  He is also Co-PI for the Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center (ETAC) for the Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Use of Social Media to Improve Engagement, Retention, and Health Outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum Initiative with Dr. Ron Brooks (PI). He was Co-Investigator on a recently completed R01 RCT testing daily automated, peer-educator mediated, and weekly diary interventions by text-messaging for methamphetamine using gay and bisexual men in Los Angeles with Dr. Cathy Reback (PI).  Dr. Swendeman also recently completed a R21 that developed and tested an interactive voice response (IVR) intervention with antiretroviral therapy patients in India targeting adherence and self-management.  Dr. Swendeman has also led and supported the design and evaluation of over a dozen other studies employing mobile phone, web-based, and social media technologies, both for primary research aims and interventions to support patients, community health workers (CHWs), substance abuse counselors, medical care coordination teams, and youth and parents.  Dr. Swendeman’s work also focuses on other alternative delivery modalities for intervention delivery and diffusion, such as market-place based family wellness centers (www.uclacommons.org), and soccer leagues and job training with young township men in South Africa.

Contact: dswendeman@mednet.ucla.edu

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Sheehan, D. M., Gwanzura, T., Ibarra, C., Ramirez-Ortiz, D., Swendeman, D., Duncan, D. T., Muñoz-Laboy, M., Devieux, J. G., & Trepka, M. J. (2024). Psychometric Properties of Measuring Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Young Latino Sexual Minority Men With HIV: Ecological Momentary Assessment and Electronic Pill Dispenser Study. Online journal of public health informatics, 16, e51424.


2. Swendeman, D., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Arnold, E. M., Fernández, M. I., Comulada, W. S., Ishimoto, K., Gertsch, W., Murphy, D. A., Ocasio, M., Lee, S. J., Lewis, K. A., & Adolescent HIV Medicine Trials Network (ATN) CARES Team (2024). Strategies to Facilitate Service Utilization Among Youth at Risk for HIV: A Randomized Controlled Trial (ATN 149). AIDS and behavior, 10.1007/s10461-024-04545-2. Advance online publication.


3. Timmons-Vendryes, R., Asca, J. C., Swendeman, D., Silva-Santisteban, A., Konda, K., Bazargan, S., Clark, J., Comulada, W. S., Cáceres, C., & Morris, F. L. (2024). The potential of a hygiene-based message, preferred learning modalities, and *iLubricarte, Liberarte, Lavarte+!” or L 3 + for the prevention of HIV/STI in Peru. Research square, rs.3.rs-4889345.

Last updated: 1/17/2025