Community Outreach and Engagement

Partnerships between community groups and health behavioral scientists are crucial both to the development of relevant, effective research programs and to capacity building in those communities. The HIV Center has fostered and advanced these partnerships since its beginnings and has built up a strong and diverse network of community partners in the last 16 years, especially within ethnic and racial minority communities in the Greater New York City area. HIV Center investigators are also partners in multisite trials, cooperative agreements, networks, national committees, and international initiatives, and active participants in a wide range of national and international conferences.

The HIV Center promotes information exchange with both community and academic partners. Grand Rounds have been held every week since the establishment of the Center in 1987, drawing representatives of community-based organizations and colleagues ranging from basic scientists to clinicians to care givers. The HIV Center Website, has enabled us both to reach out to scientific and service communities and the public and to share information among HIV Center collaborators.

In spring 2007, a new HIV Center E-newsletter replaced the former hard-copy newsletter, bringing information about developments and activities at the HIV Center via the Web. Click here to subscribe to the HIV Center E-Newsletter.