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 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. Her international experience includes research in Cambodia, Vietnam, Mali, Ghana, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Peru.