Thomas J. Coates, director of the Program in Global Health and the Michael and
Sue Steinberg Endowed Professor of Global AIDS Research within the Division
of Infectious Diseases in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, will
deliver the seventh annual lecture of the Center for Health and Behavior (CHB)
at Syracuse University on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. in Room 001 of the Life
Sciences Complex.
Coates will speak on "HIV Prevention Local and Global: How to Make it Work
Better." The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available for $2 in
the Booth Garage. Guests should alert the parking attendant that they are
attending the CHB annual lecture in order to take advantage of the discounted
rate.
Coates is an expert on HIV prevention, the relationship of prevention and
treatment for HIV, and public policies affecting HIV prevention and care. He co-
founded the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of
California, San Francisco, in 1986 and was the center's director from 1991-2003.
Coates was also founding executive director of the UCSF AIDS Research
Institute, leading the institute from 1996-2003. His domestic work has focused on
a variety of populations, and he is currently finishing a nationwide clinical trial
of an experimental HIV preventive intervention focused on high-risk men.
With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and
the World Health Organization (WHO), Coates led a randomized, controlled trial
to determine the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of HIV voluntary counseling and
testing for individuals and couples in Kenya, Tanzania and Trinidad. He is now
directing a 46-community randomized clinical trial in South Africa, Tanzania,
Thailand and Zimbabwe to determine the impact of strategies for destigmatizing
HIV on HIV incidence community-wide. He also directs the behavioral core of
the National Institutes of Health-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network and is
conducting policy research domestically and internationally. He was elected to
the Institute of Medicine in 2000 and to the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in 2004.
"We are deeply honored to host Dr. Coates, who is without a doubt the single
most influential behavioral scientist in the HIV-AIDS arena. His scientific and
humanitarian contributions date back to the early days of the pandemic. Over
the years, he has contributed to science, practice, education, administration and
policy-always at the highest levels of excellence. His unparalleled research
career, coupled with his visionary and courageous leadership, exemplifies the
principles of Scholarship in Action," says Michael Carey, CHB director and Dean's
Professor of the Sciences in the Department of Psychology in The College of Arts
and Sciences.
The CHB annual lecture brings to campus an outstanding scientist whose work
illustrates the very best in health research and is designed to appeal to students,
faculty, staff and the Syracuse community. For information about past lecturers,
visit http://www.chb.syr.edu/lecture.php. For more information on this year's
lecture, contact the CHB at (315) 443-3657 or bbbrooke@syr.edu.
The Center for Health and Behavior is an all-University center that facilitates and
supports research on the behavioral and psychosocial aspects of health,
including topics such as the health effects of aging, alcohol use, arthritis,
diabetes, heart disease, HIV, smoking and stress. Scientists in the center often
develop and evaluate programs to promote health in children, adolescents,
college students, adults and families. Research-in laboratories, hospitals,
schools and community-based agencies and in collaboration with colleagues in
the United States and abroad-is supported by grants from the National
Institutes of Health and public and private sponsors. For more information, visit
http://chb.syr.edu.
