Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Training Program

CAIR's postdoctoral research fellowship training program is a National Research Service Award (NRSA) training program that is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. Two postdoctoral fellows are accepted annually for a two-year period of training. Candidates for CAIR's postdoctoral fellowship program must receive their doctorate prior to beginning training, and individuals with postgraduate experience who now wish to focus their research in HIV prevention areas are encouraged to apply. It is anticipated that postdoctoral fellows will hold doctorates in the behavioral or social science, public health, nursing, or medical fields.

CAIR's postdoctoral research fellowship training program includes the following elements:

• Supervised and independent research preceptorship experiences with CAIR faculty members. A close, ongoing research mentorship experience with a senior faculty investigator is the "heart" of CAIR's training program. This research relationship is expected to begin with a period of supervised trainee research and develop as increasingly independent research projects are initiated by the fellow. In addition to working closely with a primary mentor, CAIR fellows have the opportunity to collaborate on multiple projects with CAIR's internationally-known faculty.
   
• Fellowship training conferences and seminars. Postdoctoral fellows participate in weekly seminars on HIV behavioral research and in foundation areas important to the development of successful careers in HIV prevention research. Fellows also participate in a research ethics seminar and in CAIR's conference series which brings to the center nationally-respected AIDS behavioral researchers.
   
• Availability of enrichment courses. Fellows may elect to take advantage of advanced courses and seminars offered at the Medical College and at other institutions in areas related to their scientific enrichment.
   
• Development of research papers and grant applications. Each fellow is expected, and will be guided, to establish a record of scholarly activity in an area of research interest reflected by the authorship of scientific research papers and the preparation of an NIH-format grant application during the period of training.

CAIR's Research Team
CAIR is a multidisciplinary HIV prevention research center. Based in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine of the Medical College of Wisconsin, CAIR brings together a team of investigators from a variety of disciplines including community, clinical, health, social, quantitative, and educational psychology; public health and epidemiology; biostatistics; psychiatry, infectious disease, and community medicine; anthropology; and other fields. Faculty members devote their full effort to HIV prevention research at CAIR; other investigators devote partial effort to CAIR projects. CAIR's work is also supported by a research team of 45 full-time project coordinators, research associates, and other experienced personnel.

CAIR faculty and staff have offices near downtown Milwaukee and overlooking Lake Michigan. CAIR's facilities include conference and meeting rooms; an on-site HIV behavioral research library; and excellent computer resources. The main campus of the Medical College of Wisconsin, located about eight miles from CAIR's offices, has all of the facilities and specialty resources that one would expect to find at a large medical school.