Evaluating HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs (PDF)

multi-facility, multi-service agency with services located throughout California and Washington, DC. Dr. Brown has more than 30 years of experience developing innovative, communitybased services including Community Mental Health Centers and crisis intervention centers; residential, day treatment and outpatient drug abuse treatment services; HIV/AIDS outreach, prevention and interventions for women; specialized services for women, their children and their families;mental health treatment and specialized dual diagnosis interventions; trauma and domestic violence prevention and intervention services. Dr. Brown received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Southern California. She is an adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. She is also a member of numerous federal, state, and local advisory committees and was elected as a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academy of Practice Psychology. Trudy A. Larson, MD, Associate Editor, is Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean of Primary Care Research, Education and Service at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. In this role she oversees all state and national outreach activities of the School of Medicine, including rural health system development, communitybased medical education, public health program evaluation, continuing education for health professionals, health policy development, and the ongoing expansion and improvement of public health in Nevada through program innovation. Dr. Larson is the Medical Director of the Nevada Area AIDS Education and Training Center, the Principal Investigator of the Nevada AIDS Drug Assistance Program Comprehensive Evaluation Project, and a member of the Nevada State AIDS Advisory Board. A pediatric infectious disease specialist, she is the former Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Nevada School of Medicine where she has served since 1984. A. T. Panter, PhD, Associate Editor (1989, New York University), is Associate Professor of Psychology in the L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also a senior technical consultant at The Measurement Group. Dr. Panter's major research areas are measurement and test theory, multivariate data modeling, evaluation design, and individual differences. She has received several university-wide awards for her innovative approaches to teaching statistics and quantitative methodology to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Panter has been extensively involved in The Measurement Group's multi-site evaluation centers and has specialized in work with projects that provide technical assistance and/or health education/training to health care providers. She regularly consults with federal agencies on grant review, is a regular member of NIMH's grant panel on Risk, Prevention, and Health Behavior (RPHB-4), and serves on numerous national committees and editorial boards in the area of social/personality psychology and quantitative methods.