Behavioral/Social Sciences & Community Outreach Core (BSSCOC)

行为/社会科学和社区外展（BSSCO）核心将提供资源和工作人员： (1)促进积极参与南佛罗里达社区代表和组织在UM D-CFAR; (2)为D-CFAR调查人员提供咨询和资源，帮助他们制定和 实施程序，加强招募和挽留社区和诊所为本的研究参与者;以及 (3)扩大行为和社会科学家与临床和实验室科学家合作的能力。 在这个D-CFAR应用中，BSSCO核心将专注于进一步提高质量的特定领域。 行为/社会科学艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究在UM，也期待刺激新的发展 艾滋病毒调查人员，研究计划和行为/社会科学家，临床 科学家和实验室科学家。这一核心工作的一个特别重点是协助D-CFAR调查人员， 发展和维护有意义的社区伙伴关系。我们的三个目标代表了 在我们的需求评估和我们以前的批评中已经确定的改进 提交CFAR申请。

The Behavioral/Social Sciences and Community Outreach (BSSCO) Core will offer resources and staff to: (1) promote active involvement with South Florida community representatives and organizations in the UM D-CFAR; (2) provide D-CFAR investigators with consultation and resources that will aid them in developing and implementing procedures to enhance recruitment and retention of community- and clinic-based study participants; and (3) expand the ability of behavioral and social scientists to collaborate with clinical and laboratory scientists. In this D-CFAR application, the BSSCO Core will focus on specific areas that will further enhance the quality of behavioral/social science HIV/AIDS research at UM and also look to stimulate the development of new HIV investigators, research initiatives and collaborations among the behavioral/social scientists, clinical scientists and laboratory scientists. A special emphasis of this core will be to assist D-CFAR investigators in developing and maintaining meaningful community partnerships. Our three aims represent areas for improvement that have been identified in our needs assessments and in critiques from our previously submitted CFAR applications.