Core Services

The Developmental Core facilitates the Center’s mentoring, training, and supplemental funding programs designed to enlarge, strengthen, and diversify the cadre of HIV investigators in the region. Fred Ssewamala, Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, and Richard Grucza lead these efforts. 

The Advanced Technology Core, led by Liang Shan and George Kyei, supports innovative and collaborative HIV research through services and scientific infrastructure to assist investigators with the technical expertise and laboratory resources to advance their work.

The Clinical Science Core administers programming and services that bring researchers from different institutions, centers, and disciplines into a community and connects them to clinical investigation resources. Beau Ances and Rachel Presti direct the Core.

The Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) Science Core works to optimize evidence-based HIV interventions to advance adoption and sustainability. Virginia McKay, Juliet Iwelunmor and Anne Sebert-Kuhlmann direct these efforts.