Events

The UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research will present the 2019 CFAR Symposium on Friday, May 31, 2019, in the Robertson Auditorium at the Mission Bay Conference Center. Organized jointly by the CFAR’s Administrative and Developmental Cores, the day will be a celebration of CFAR’s legacy in helping to catalyze the stellar HIV research happening here in San Francisco. We will be featuring the work of many former CFAR awardees/mentees who have gone on to be successful independent HIV researchers.

The 2019 Inter-CFAR Women and HIV meeting will include mentorship for early career investigators, networking opportunities, and competitively reviewed abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

Abstracts are due on July 16, 2019. Announcement for registration and call for abstracts will be released in June 2019.

Session Topics:

Al Liu - RAPID: Evaluating Gaps and Improving Rapid Linkage and ART initiation in the Bay Area

Andrew Kerkhoff - Update on the Inter-CFAR IS Training Program

WIP: Developing a racial equity indicator for enhanced prenatal care implementation

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Presenters will provide an overview of appropriate study designs for COVID intervention evaluations as well as how/whether to adapt these designs (both with respect to data collection and analysis) that were conceived for non-COVID research in response to the COVID-19 pandemic or other disruptions. Designs that will be discussed include: pre/post and interrupted time series, stepped wedge, SMART designs, preference designs, and others that focus on implementation.

Speakers: Margaret Handley, Starley Shade, Jean Digitale, and Kristefer Stojanovski

4-Part CAPS/PRC Town Hall Series -- Laying Foundations of Trust: Moving Towards Health Equity

This 4-part CAPS/DPS Town Hall series will explore core social and behavioral aspects of trust and engagement with public health measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an eye towards lessons from HIV work, in order to stimulate programmatic and research agendas that promote health equity.