The Global Community Core (GCC) provides leadership and expertise to ensure that HIV Center research is meaningful and relevant, reflecting actual "needs on the ground" in terms of both the US and international epidemics. The Core ensures that HIV Center researchers identify and engage all relevant stakeholders in the research process, participate in genuinely constructive partnerships, and produce research knowledge that will have a sustainable impact on the global AIDS epidemic.

The GCC supports ongoing development of interdisciplinary research conducted by HIV Center investigators by fostering and sustaining collaborative relationships with partners at multiple levels (e.g., community, institutional, governmental) in every location where the Center conducts research and by identifying emerging issues of significance in international and collaborative research. The Core builds upon existing partnerships and promote new ones to facilitate rigorous collaborative HIV behavioral research. The work of the GCC draws heavily on the community-based participatory research (CBPR) model, because community-based research is more effective and sustainable when all stakeholders are involved.

A particular emphasis is on the large new programs that are transforming the landscape of HIV treatment, care, and prevention in the developing world, many of which are active at our home institution of Columbia University and elsewhere in New York City. In the context of widespread "scale-up" of treatment with new opportunities for prevention, the GCC also facilitates collaborations among scientists, policymakers, funders, health practitioners, community members, and other stakeholders in all settings, be they domestic or international. Further, the GCC enhances the expertise of investigators as they move into new and more diverse settings cross-nationally and cross-culturally.

Core Members

Robert Remien, Ph.D.: Core Director
Laurie Bauman, Ph.D.: Core Co-Director
Richard Parker, Ph.D.: Core Co-Director

Elaine Abrams, M.D.
Carlos Allende-Ramos (VIP Community Services)
Elizabeth Begier, M.D. (NYC DOHMH)
Alma Candelas, M.P.H. (NY State DOH AIDS Institute)
Jessica Justman, M.D.
Raymond Ganoe, M.S.W. (AIDS Community Services of Western New York)
Joyce Hunter, D.S.W.
Susan Klein, M.S. (NY State DOH AIDS Institute)
Beatrice J. Krauss, Ph.D. (Hunter Center on Community and Urban Health)
David Lounsbury, Ph.D. (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Ph.D.
Joanne Mantell, Ph.D.
Mary McKay, Ph.D. (Mt. Sinai, Psychiatry/Community Medicine)
Eleanor Preston-White, Ph.D. (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Bruce Rapkin, Ph.D. (Cornell University Medical College)
Raymond A. Smith, Ph.D.
Veriano Terto, M.D. (ABIA, Brazil)
Patrick Wilson, Ph.D.

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