UCLA CFAR CORES

Biostatistics Core

Director:
William Cumberland, Ph.D.
310.206.9621
wgc@ucla.edu

The Biostatistics Core of the UCLA Center for AIDS research is designed to serve as a centralized resource for biostatistical expertise to support AIDS research at UCLA. The aims of this core are to enhance HIV/AIDS research and to establish and foster long-term collaborations between clinical, basic and behavioral researchers and biostatisticians at UCLA. This collaboration improves the biostatistical aspects of the AIDS research undertaken at UCLA and ensures that AIDS investigators have access to expert statistical consultation and support, and that the most appropriate and up-to-date methods are used. The kinds of support range from simple consultations to long-term collaborations and grant writing. The core provides support to AIDS research in the following areas: statistical modeling and expertise to researchers in basic science departments, survey designs and analysis of observational data to social science departments, design of experiments and analysis for interventional studies, and data modeling and analysis for clinical departments. Further, it fosters the development of biostatistical methodology for immediate use by researchers in these groups. The primary activity of the core involves long-term scientific research collaboration between faculty members in the department of Biostatistics and AIDS researchers at UCLA. In addition, staff consulting on AIDS research problems under faculty supervision is provided. A number of these long-term collaborative interactions lead to grant submissions and funding from other sources, allowing the Biostatistics Core to focus on establishing new collaborations and supporting new research.