Torsten Brian Neilands, PhD
Assistant Professor
My current research activities fall into four distinct domains: (1) quantitative data analysis methods and survey scale development, (2) directorship of the CAPS Methods Core, (3) identifying the precursors and effects of childhood sexual abuse in men who are at risk for contracting HIV, and (4) advanced quantitative methodological, statistical, and data analytic support for epidemiological and behavioral HIV prevention research efforts.
Research interests
Scale development, scale reliability, longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modeling, multivariate statistics, factor analysis, dyadic data analysis, influential case diagnosis, behavioral statistics, behavioral HIV/AIDS research.
Current research
- The Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
- Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute (Reversing Tobacco Market Research on Young Adults)
- Collaborative HIV Prevention in Minority Communities
- HIV Risk Reduction for Women with Incarcerated Partners
- Testing of a Model of HIV Risk in Gay Couples
- Test of an HIV Treatment Side Effects Intervention
- A Mindfulness Approach to HIV Treatment Side Effects
- Relationship Factors and HIV Treatment Adherence
- A Longitudinal Study of Gay Couples
Education
- 1993, PhD (Psychology), University of Texas at Austin
- 1990, M.A (Quantitative Methods), University of Texas at Austin
- 1988, B.A. (With Honors, Psychology), University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1988, B.A. (English Literature), University of California, Santa Cruz
Publications
Articles by Torsten Brian Neilands.
Contact
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)
University of California , San Francisco
50 Beale Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco , CA 94105
Voice: (415) 597-9236
FAX: (415) 597-9213
email: tor [at] ucsf.edu
