The Core will provide state-of-the-art behavioral research consultation and facilitation to students, fellows, junior and senior investigators and CBOs in areas specifically identified because of their importance in understanding HIV and AIDS. The core is new and will promote collaborations between both basic and behavioral scientists; encourage HIV related research, treatment, and clinical trials; and help to recruit diverse populations for all of these endeavors. The Core faculty is comprised of researchers with expertise in studying behavioral aspects of HIV treatment, prevention, and assessment with HIV positive and negative men, women, and children from a variety of ethnic groups in the US and abroad. All members of this Core have worked with multidisciplinary teams and will work together with faculty from the basic and clinical science cores to ensure integrated research consultation.

The mission of the Core is to promote behavioral science HIV/AIDS research at UCLA and to encourage multidisciplinary and community collaborations in basic, behavioral, and clinical research with a goal of benefiting the larger Los Angeles community.