Co-director
Dean, School of Nursing, Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology
Welcome to the Yale-UPR Administrative Core (AC), which provides overall scientific and organizational leadership, management and infrastructure to support the Y-UPR mission and integration of efforts and processes across all Cores/SWGs of the HIV Initiative. A major goal of the AC is to expand scientific exchange by fostering relationships across Yale and UPR and developing ties with key partners outside of the two universities.
The structure of Y-UPR is designed to support HIV/AIDS researchers at Yale and UPR in developing stronger interactions with and across the two institutions, as well as with key partner organizations, to promote collaborations that serve Y-UPR aims. Leadership will assist in creating additional linkages to foster relevant HIV/AIDS research, in collaboration with Yale’s CIRA, and UPR’s CCHDR/RCMI, along with a new nursing science network.
New Haven, CT is riven with complex social determinants of HIV in minority communities. In the CDC’s most recent HIV Surveillance Report, New Haven’s metropolitan area has a prevalence of diagnosed HIV infection of 375.5/100,000. Nearby Hartford (35 mi) and Bridgeport (16 mi) have rates >270/100,000. UPR, in the San Juan area, has prevalence of diagnosed HIV infection of >400/100,000, higher than the rates in some of the hardest hit areas in the states. San Juan is one of the 50 venues (48 counties, the District of Columbia, & San Juan municipality) targeted by the White House initiative: Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America.
Co-PIs/AC co-Directors, Drs. Vermund, Kurth, Zorrilla, and Rabionet, are highly cognizant of the local contexts for scientific research, and the need for local impact of our mission on behalf of PR and CT. This Yale-UPR HIV initiative endeavors to reduce PR isolation as a resource-limited US territory, strengthening HIV research capacity in both venues.
The goals of the Yale-UPR administrative core are as follows:
Co-director
Dean, School of Nursing, Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology
Director
Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health
Adminstrative Director