Thomas J. Coates, PhD
Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute
Professor, Department of Medicine

Dr. Coates joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 2003. His areas of emphasis and expertise are HIV prevention, the relationship between prevention and treatment for HIV, the relationship between biological and social/behavioral prevention strategies, and HIV policies. His domestic work has focused on men who have sex with men, and he has recently completed a nationwide clinical trial of an experimental HIV-preventive intervention focused on this population. He is also finishing domestic trials of post-exposure prophylaxis. In addition Dr. Coates is directing a community-randomized clinical trial in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Thailand to determine the impact of strategies for destigmatizing HIV on HIV incidence community-wide; leading a prevention clinical trial in South America as part of a five-country effort; and has initiated work in China to conduct studies of prevention with HIV-infected individuals. He is co-principal investigator of the NIAID-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network, and has been proposed as the Director of the Behavioral and Social Science Core of the HPTN. He was cited in Science in 2002 as the fourth highest-funded scientist in the clinical, social, and behavioral sciences, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2000.