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Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS)

CHIPTS is a collaboration of researchers from UCLA, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Friends Research Institute, and RAND working with the broader Los Angeles community toward a common goal: to enhance our collective understanding of HIV research and to promote early detection, effective prevention, and treatment programs for HIV. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, CHIPTS serves as a bridge among researchers, government, service providers, and people with HIV in responding to the changes in the HIV epidemic and in shaping sound public policy.

The UCLA Program in Global Health, in tandem with investigators from Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, serves as the International Core for CHIPTS. The International Core focuses on the following areas:

Science. Developing an international research agenda and projects centered on our key scientific themes (behavioral intervention agenda for new biomedical and technological advances in HIV identification, prevention, and treatment services; adaptation and adoption of effective interventions, disparities and their impact on disadvantaged populations; and, integration of detection, prevention, and care).

Networking. Fostering and sustaining collaborative relationships between CHIPTS and targeted developing-country investigators and institutions by convening multinational research teams on an annual basis to define emerging issues of significance for the U.S. and developing-countries related to the Center’s key scientific themes.

Capacity Building. Mentoring investigators entering the field of international HIV research; enhancing the utility and quality of international grant submissions and scientific publications, including addressing ethical issues of HIV research in international settings.

Dissemination. Disseminating the research results to impact HIV practice and policy in the U.S. and in developing countries.

UCLA PGH is also involved in CHIPTS' Policy Core, which works to support sound policy making relevant to HIV by developing and disseminating information about how public and private policies affect HIV service delivery and the outcomes for persons infected with and at risk for HIV. It also seeks to elucidate the links between policies and health outcomes and to disseminate these findings to policy makers and develop cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses of prevention and treatment programs and assist collaborators and community partners in including a cost dimension in their evaluations.