Torsten Neilands
University of California-San Francisco, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Health research is only as trustworthy as its methods: how a study is designed, what data it collects and how those data are analyzed. As study designs, data sources and statistical tools multiply, researchers struggle to choose the right ones.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Mathematics & Statistics
Social Science
- Topics
HIV prevention
health disparities
health equity
- Grants
- 2 known grants, through Jun 2028
What they work on
- Promote rigorous study designs in HIV prevention research at CAPS through training, consultation and pre-submission review of grant proposals and manuscripts.
- Encourage HIV researchers to use emerging technologies, multiple data sources, advanced statistics and mixed methods, and share best practices for de-identifying data to protect participants.
- Train early-career aging researchers in established health disparities methods, publicly available datasets and NIH policies through group-based sessions.
- Create customized, team-based methods training plans for each scientist's pilot study of aging-related health disparities, and disseminate methodological resources through publications and a website.
More about the research
The PI leads two methods cores that help scientists studying HIV prevention and health disparities in older adults use rigorous designs and analyses. These are service and training cores, not single experiments.
Why it matters
By raising the rigor of HIV studies, this work aims to support research that could help end the HIV epidemic. Its training and resources on aging could also improve understanding of why health disparities arise among older adults from diverse communities. That knowledge could, in turn, support interventions designed to achieve health equity.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Laneshia Conner
University of Kentucky, KY·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Revise the Woman to Woman (W2W) HIV prevention program for older adults by identifying key themes from reproductive health histories and building them into the program.
Anne Fehrenbacher
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Model barriers and facilitators for adopting a digital PrEP implementation strategy within India's National AIDS Control Organization Targeted Intervention programs, guided by the EPIS implementation science framework.
Sanjay Shete
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX·Mathematics & Statistics
Provide study design, hypothesis refinement and statistical planning for the Center's clinical and laboratory projects on risk factors for obesity-related cancer.
The school
University of California-San Francisco: 89 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 164 research doctorates a year.
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