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Fall 2012 -The Network Issue

HIV spreads though social/sexual networks. To end the epidemic, researchers must understand how the virus moves within a community and use that knowledge to prevent new infections. In this issue of Spotlight, we look at how the Botswana Combination Prevention Project is taking an innovative, community-wide approach to AIDS prevention.

From Terrorist Cells to Sexual Networks:
Modeling Complex Systems

Fresh out of the University of Pennsylvania, Ravi Goyal was recruited by the National Security Agency (NSA) for its rapidly expanding Counter-Terrorism Unit. The year was 2002. Continue…

Cell Phones & Sexual Networks

Harvard AIDS Initiative researchers are hoping to use data from cell phones to better understand sexual networks in Botswana villages. Continue…

President of Liberia Visits BHP

Pepin

Profile: Victor DeGruttola

Molly Pretorius Holme

Ask most people, “Do you have a purpose in life?” and they’ll pause or stammer. Ask Victor DeGruttola and he answers Continue…

Q&A with Victor DeGruttola

Dr. Victor DeGruttola, Chair of the Dept. of Biostatistics at HSPH answers questions about the Botswana Combination Prevention Project (BCPP). Continue…