2025 Quantitative Summer Internship in HIV/AIDS Program

2025 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.

Orientation Week Schedule:

Monday, May 12th
10:00 – 12:00: Welcome and introduction
12:00 – 1:00: Break
1:00 – 2:00: Gaining the Skills needed to work as a Quantitative Team Scientist with Gina-Maria Pomann
2:00 – 2:30: Team building
2:30 – 3:00: Baseline survey
3:00 – Visit visa office, trainings, project meetings

Tuesday, May 13th
9:30 – 11:30: HIV/AIDS Primer with Marina Tuyishime
11:30 – 1:00: Break
1:00 – 2:00: Tips for Effective Data Visualization with Eric Monson
2:00 – 5:00: 
DCC, Git, and Reproducible Analysis with Josh Granek and Janice McCarthy

Wednesday, May 14th
10:00 – 12:00: R Workshop with Janice McCarthy and Richard Barfield
12:00 – 1:00: Break
1:00 – 2:30: Lived experience with HIV: reflections from D3C members
2:30 – Trainings, project meetings

Thursday, May 15th
10:00 – 12:00: Developing cross-disciplinary communication competence with the Team Science Core
12:00 – 1:00: How to give a scientific presentation with Steve Grambow
1:00 – 2:00: Break
2:00 – 3:00: HIV/AIDS Trivia
3:00 – Trainings, project meetings

Recordings can be found here!

Week

Dates

In Person (Wednesday)

Speakers

Intern Presentations (1pm)

1

5/12/25 - 5/16/25

Orientation week

5/12/25 - 5/14/25

See above

None

2

5/19/25 - 5/23/25

5/21/25

(10am) John Bartlett: A History of Clinical HIV/AIDS

None

3

5/26/25 - 5/30/25

5/28/25

(10am) Tonia Poteat: Addressing Drivers of Health in Populations Impacted by HIV

 

(11:15am) Lauren Howard: Statistical analysis plans

Chibuike Okekeogbu

Tahmina Begum

Noah Couch

4

6/02/25 - 6/06/25

6/4/25

(10am) Amy Corneli: Beyond Numbers: Using Qualitative Research to Advance Clinical Research and Care

Garrett Scapellato

Jingyan Zhang

Nigar Sultana

5

6/09/25 - 6/13/25

6/11/25

(10am) Valerie Yelverton: How telehealth can help decrease disparities in the care of people living with HIV

Swarna Chowdhury

Alysia Yan

Christine Bui

Drew Taylor

6

6/16/25 - 6/20/25

6/18/25

(10am) Sadie Wilson: TBD

None – lab tour

7

6/23/25 - 6/27/25

6/25/25

(10am) Thuy Le: Overview of the HIV epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention with clinical presentation on common HIV opportunistic infections.

Chibuike Okekeogbu

Christine Bui

Drew Taylor

8

6/30/25 - 7/04/25

7/2/25

(10am) Avi Kenny: Joint modeling of HIV seroconversion and mortality processes in the presence of interval censoring

 

(11:15) Erin Monson: How to make a research poster

Garrett Scapellato

Jingyan Zhang

Nigar Sultana

Swarna Chowdhury

9

7/07/25 - 7/11/25

7/9/25

(10am) Jacqueline Hodges:

Community-partnered low barrier care models for HIV prevention and treatment among people who use drugs

Noah Couch

Tahmina Begum

Alysia Yan

10

7/14/25 - 7/18/25

7/16/25

(10am) Charlie Burns: Improving access to HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the South

(11:15am) Lizzy Knippler: How to make an infographic

(2pm) Laura Coutts: Resume Prep

Chibuike Okekeogbu

Christine Bui

Drew Taylor

11

7/21/25 - 7/25/25

7/23/25

(10am) Michael Relf: HIV and Stigma: Conceptualization, Measurement & Intervention

(11:15) Cliburn Chan: How to write an abstract

Garrett Scapellato

Jingyan Zhang

Nigar Sultana

12

7/28/25 - 7/31/25

7/30/25

(10am) Lance Okeke: AI/ML to Improve the HIV Care Continuum

(11am) Focus Group

Noah Couch

Swarna Chowdhury

Tahmina Begum

Alysia Yan

 

To attend by Zoom:

https://duke.zoom.us/j/93087188791?pwd=wijUX4CVoDiOCJj7oGEkRhcP8guKFn.1