2026 Quantitative Summer Internship in HIV/AIDS Program

2026 Quantitative Methods in HIV/AIDS Summer Internship Meeting Schedule

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Note: All in-person activities will be held in Hock Plaza 10089 unless otherwise specified.

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Orientation Week Schedule:

Monday, May 11th 
10:00 – 12:00: Orientation slides
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 2:00: Gaining the Skills needed to work as a Quantitative Team Scientist with Gina-Maria Pomann
2:00 – 3:00: Team Building; Baseline survey
3:00 – Trainings, project meetings

Tuesday, May 12th 
10:00 – 12:00: Reproducibility with Josh Granek
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 3:00: History of HIV/AIDS at Duke with John Bartlett and Kent Weinhold
3:00 – Trainings, project meetings

Wednesday, May 13th
10:00 – 12:00: Git setup with Janice McCarthy
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 3:00: HIV/AIDS Primer with Marina Tuyishime
3:00 – Trainings, project meetings

Thursday, May 14th 
10:00 – 12:00: Movie screening
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 2:00: Lived experience with HIV: reflections from D3C members
2:00 – 3:00: HIV/AIDS Trivia
3:00 – Trainings, project meetings

Recordings can be found here!

Week

Dates

Wednesday Training Activity

(10am)

Wednesday Speaker

(11am)

Wednesday Intern Presentations (1pm)

1

5/11/25 - 5/15/25

See above

See above

None

2

5/18/25 - 5/22/25

Team Science Training

Team Science Training

(1pm) Eric Monson: Effective Data Visualization

(2:15pm) Steve Grambow: Scientific Presentations

3

5/25/25 - 5/29/25

QuanTS - Reproducibility

Charlie Burns: Exploring new ways to access Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in 2026

Skyler Prowten
Bobby Zhang
Lou Lindsley

4

6/01/25 - 6/05/25

QuanTS – Effective Meeting Strategy

Tom Carpino: HIV & Mpox: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges

Biz Mullen
Regan Richardson
Timothy Boakye Aderonke Adetunji

5

6/08/25 - 6/12/25

QuanTS – Strong Quantitative Voice

Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein: HIV at the Margins: Quantitative Methods for Health Justice in Carceral Settings

Shanti O'Neil
Joanne Hwang
April Boyd

6

6/15/25 - 6/19/25

QuanTS – Team Dynamics

Amy Corneli: Beyond Numbers: Using Qualitative Research to Advance Clinical Research and Care

Lab tour

7

6/22/25 - 6/26/25

TBD

Dorothy Dow: Sauti ya Vijana (The Voice of Youth) a mental health and life skills intervention for youth with HIV in Tanzania: Results of a mutli-site individually randomized group treatment clinical trial

Skyler Prowten
Bobby Zhang
Lou Lindsley

8

6/29/25 - 7/03/25

Research Posters

Justin Pollara: Introduction to retroviruses

Biz Mullen
Regan Richardson
Timothy Boakye Aderonke Adetunji

9

7/06/25 - 7/10/25

Scientific Communication and Infographics

Nrupen Bhavsar: TBD

Shanti O'Neil
Joanne Hwang
April Boyd

10

7/13/25 - 7/17/25

Abstracts

Thuy Le: Overview of the HIV epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention with clinical presentation on common HIV opportunistic infections.

Skyler Prowten
Bobby Zhang
Lou Lindsley

11

7/20/25 - 7/24/25

Resumes

Tonia Poteat: Addressing Drivers of Health in Populations Impacted by HIV

Biz Mullen
Regan Richardson
Timothy Boakye Aderonke Adetunji

12

7/27/25 - 7/31/25

Focus Group

Sarah Wilson: TBD

Shanti O'Neil
Joanne Hwang
April Boyd