Services

The Sociobehavioral and Prevention Research Core provides Technical Assistance (TA) to CFAR investigators. Types of assistance available include the following:

• Consultation on questionnaire, study design, and analysis
  
  Core staff members of the SPRC have expertise in epidemiology and a wide range of sociobehavioral and prevention research methods.
  
  
• Transmission modeling assistance
  
  Our core is unique in the CFAR system in providing technical assistance in HIV transmission modeling to clinical, social and behavioral researchers. This assistance ranges from exploratory descriptive analysis of partnership network data to simulation models for the impact of network structure on transmission. These services enable our researchers to examine the relational contexts of HIV transmission and to investigate the population level impacts of individual level changes.
  
  To request assistance, please visit our TA referral page.

The Sociobehavioral and Prevention Research Core also supports HIV Prevention Research by organizing forums for interdisciplinary research community development. This includes…

• linking CFAR investigators to UW faculty with expertise in the social and behavioral sciences;
• offering consulting sessions and methodological workshops; and,
• organizing lectures, workshops, and seminars.

The SPRC has a new subcore on Community Outreach that works both locally, with our Community Action Board, and internationally to pursue community-based research priorities, stimulate collaborative research projects, and identify translational opportunities.

The core also maintains a close collaboration with the UW CFAR Scientific Program on Mathematical Modeling for HIV/STD Research. The goal of the scientific program is to develop the theory of and computational platform for the science of modeling. The goal of the SPRC is service—providing technical assistance with the application of existing methodology.