Pamina M. Gorbach M.H.S, Dr.P.H. 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 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 a NIDA funded longitudinal study of behavior change among men recently infected with HIV and their sexual partners; an epidemiological study of men’s and women’s rectal health and behaviors as part of the UCLA Microbicide Development Program (U19); a study of barriers to enrollment in a research registry for microbicide clinical trials on UCLA’s Network for AIDS Research in Los Angeles; a community based epidemiological study of sexual and drug using networks in Los Angeles; and a study comparing reporting of adherence on pictorially-based computer interviewing on handheld computers to face to face interviews in a microbicide clinical trial in Malawi as part of the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN). 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 teaches a class entitled Methods in STI/HIV Epidemiology, is a regular lecturer in the University of Washington Center for AIDS and STDS’ Principles of STD/HIV Research Annual Summer Course as well as lecturing in the STD and HIV courses in the Department of Epidemiology.  She is currently the advisor for 4 doctoral students and 3 Masters students.  Dr. Gorbach serves as a member of the Behavioral Research Committee of the MTN. Her international experience includes research in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic Peru, Cambodia, Vietnam, Mali, Malawi, and Ghana.