Current Research Projects:

To get more information about the current research projects of Core Faculty Members, please use the links below. Faculty bios and completed research are available by selecting the faculty member's name. Information about mentored research projects, if applicable, are also available.

Core Faculty

Michele Andrasik, PhD
Primary Appointment: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Acting Assistant Professor

Current Research Projects:

• Ethnic Minority Student recruitment, retention, and training in Psychology
• Reducing HIV Disparities: Sexual Concurrency Communication for HIV Prevention among African-American and African-Born Populations
• Women's HIV Risk: Alcohol intoxication, victimization history & partner factors

Lisa Manhart, MPH PhD
Primary Appointment: Department of Epidemiology, Assistant Professor

Current Research Projects:

• Principles of STD and HIV Research
• Reducing Risk & Enhancing Protective Factors in Children
• University of Washington STI TM Cooperative Research Center: Project 4
• Ureaplasmas in acute and persistent urethritis: clinical implications

Martina Morris, PhD
Primary Appointment: Department of Sociology and Statistics, Professor

Current Research Projects:

• A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing interdisciplinary science for HIV prevention
• Collaborative Research: Modeling Interaction between individual behavior, social networks and public policy to support public health epidemiology
• Multicomponent, Targeted HIV Prevention for Sub-Saharan Africa: PreventionRX
• Transmission Behavior in Partnerships of Newly HIV Infected Southern Californians

Jane M. Simoni, PhD
Primary Appointment: Department of Psychology, Professor

Current Research Projects:

• A Pilot Test of an Online HIV Medication Adherence Intervention
• Addressing Depression and ART Adherence in HIV+ Latinos on the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Developing an Antiretroviral Adherence Program in China
• Healthy hearts across generations
• Multi-site Collaborative Study for Adherence, Virologic and Clinical Outcomes. National Institute of Mental Health
• Optimal assessment of HAART adherence in routine clinical care

Robert Wood, MD
Primary Appointment: HIV/AIDS Control, Director

Current Research Projects:

Research Fellows

Susan Cassels, PhD
Primary Appointment: Center for AIDS Research; Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, Research Associate

Current Research Projects:

• Migration to Urban Slums, Sexual Networks, and HIV in Ghana