The Administrative Core

The Administrative Core provides scientific and programmatic leadership that ensures that the unifying scientific mission of the HIV Center guides the Cores and our affiliated research projects and creates an environment in which research can flourish without the pressures of routine administrative tasks and interruptions. Center leadership has ultimate responsibility for strategic planning; quality control through scientific review and program evaluation; monitoring of assurances for research participants; initiation of inter-institutional collaborations that would not exist without the Center; and participation in international, national, and local activities.

To fulfill its mission, the Administrative Core sustains an organizational structure that ensures that HIV Center investigators make innovative, multidisciplinary contributions to HIV/AIDS research while maintaining the Center's standards of scientific excellence. The Core obtains external review from the Senior Advisors, the Community Advisors, and the Performance and Safety Monitoring Board and integrates recommendations into the HIV Center strategic plan. It continually shapes the HIV Center's research agenda in response to critical evolving challenges posed by the epidemic by convening a Strategic Planning Group of US and international leaders in HIV/AIDS and by catalyzing and supporting new research partnerships at Columbia University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and other academic institutions and research centers in the New York metropolitan area.  The Administrative Core also promotes the HIV Center as a resource to constituencies including academicians and students, policy makers and government representatives, public health officials, community-based service providers, and HIV-affected populations on local, national, and international levels.  The Core also provides structure for centralized administration and coordination of fiscal and organizational management of HIV Center-affiliated projects and Center Cores.
 

Core Members

Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D.: Center Director; Core Director
Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Dr. rer. nat.: Associate Director
Alex Carballo-Diéguez, Ph.D.: Associate Director
Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D.: Associate Director
Susan Tross, Ph.D.: Associate Director
Patricia A. Warne, Ph.D.: Associate Director
Theo Sandfort, Ph.D.: Training Director
Masud Rahman, M.S., M.B.A.: Associate Director, Finance and Administration
Melissa White, M.S.W.: Scientific Coordinator
Darren Carter, M.D.: Core Investigator
Barbara Muller: Deputy Director, Special Projects

Senior Advisors

Rafael Díaz (San Francisco State University);
Martin Fishbein, (University of Pennsylvania);
Cynthia Gomez (San Francisco State University)
Marjorie Hill, Chief Executive Officer of Gay Men's Health Crisis
Jeffrey Kelly (Medical College of Wisconsin); 
Sten Vermund (Vanderbilt University).

Strategic Planning Group

Salim Abdool-Karim (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Francine Cournos (New York State Psychiatric Institute) 
Wafaa El-Sadr (Columbia Mailman School of Public Health)
Geeta Rao Gupta (International Center for Research on Women)
Scott Hammer (Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons)
Joseph Lau, (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Richard Parker (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health)
John Santelli (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health)
Zena Stein (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health)
Ezra Susser (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Beatrice Were (ActionAid, Uganda)

Performance and Safety Monitoring Board Members

Patrick Shrout, Chair, New York University
Frank Carbone, New York, NY
Bette Crigger, Veterans Health Administration, Washington DC;
Patricia Hawkins, Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc., Washington, DC.;
Nina Regevik, Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ.

Community and Government Advisors

Carlos Allende-Ramos (VIP Community Services)
Elizabeth Begier (NYC DOHMH)
Alma Candelas (NY State DOH AIDS Institute)
Susan Klein (NY State DOH AIDS Institute)
 Eleanor Preston-White (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Veriano Terto (ABIA, Brazil)