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| Pamina M.
Gorbach M.H.S, Dr.P.H. |
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 Pamina is a behavioral epidemiologist
whose research focuses on the risk behaviors that expose individuals
to sexually transmitted infections including HIV, measurement at
the sexual partnership level, and the social context of sexual
health. She is an Associate Professor In Residence at UCLA
in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and
in the Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine and
trained at Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and did a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the
University of Washington. Current research includes being a Project
PI on a U-19 grant entitled the Microbicide Development Program
to conduct an epidemiological study of men’s and women’s
rectal health and behaviors; on UCLA’s Network for AIDS Research
in Los Angeles Project PI of a study on barriers to enrollment
in a research registry for microbicides clinical trials; a longitudinal
study of behavior change among men recently infected with HIV;
and a community based epidemiological study of sexual and drug
using networks in Los Angeles. Dr. Gorbach has experience collaborating
with clinical epidemiology studies on sexually transmitted infections
and reported symptoms as well as on studies of sexual transmission
of STIs including HIV. She is the chair of the Behavioral
Research Committee of the Microbicide Trials Network and also a
member of a Community Prevention Leadership Group of the Adolescent
Trials Network. Her international experience includes research
in Cambodia, Vietnam, Mali, Ghana, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic
and Peru. |
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