Required Courses/Experiences for AIDS Training Program Fellows

Trainees are required to complete the following courses/experiences:

1) Sociology 288, Psychosocial Issues and Mental Health Services for Persons with AIDS. (Grusky) This seminar meets throughout the year and focuses on current research on psychosocial issues and mental health service systems for persons with HIV/AIDS. This is the organizing seminar for the training program. The latest social and behavioral science research on HIV/AIDS is evaluated. Trainees are also exposed to HIV research conducted by local and visiting researchers. It also serves as a vehicle for presentation of working papers prepared by staff and trainees.

2) Sociology 284, Topics in Mental Health: Ethical Issues in Mental Health, HIV/AIDS, and Health Services Research (Grusky). This course identifies and explains ethical issues and issues of scientific responsibility and integrity in mental health, HIV/AIDS, and health services research. It is designed to foster sensitivity and understanding of biosocial ethical issues.

3) Epidemiology 227, AIDS: A Major Public Health Challenge (Detels).

4) Epidemiology 200 ABC, Epidemiology I, II, and III.

5) Health Services 422, Practices of Evaluation in Health Services: Theory & Methodology (Andersen/Bastani).

6) Research Project With Community-Based HIV/AIDS Organization. Trainees must spend at least one quarter (ten weeks) working under faculty supervision on a research project of mutual interest with a community-based HIV organization. The program, in cooperation with CHIPTS, has established a list of CBO’s interested in these linkages. Trainees enroll in individual study courses in their department, such as Health Services 596. Directed Individual Study or Research (4 units) or Sociology 595. Directed Individual Study and Research (4 units).

7) Oral presentation at the annual CHIPTS “HIV:The Next Generation” Conference.