Our Research
Our Interventions & Community-Academic Partnerships
POSSE Project
The Posse Project research study trained popular opinion leaders to conduct HIV prevention via peer to peer health education. This project was led by Christopher V. Balthazar, MA (Project Director), and Sybil G. Hosek, PhD (Principal Investigator) at Cook County Health and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, Chicago, IL, United States.
#ChopViolence/#ChopHIV
The #ChopViolence/#ChopHIV research study is training popular opinion leaders to conduct violence prevention via peer-led violence intervention. This project is led by Christopher V. Balthazar, MA (Project Director), and Sybil G. Hosek, PhD (Principal Investigator) at Cook County Health and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, Chicago, IL, United States.
CBPR with Black Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
The “Engaging Black Sexual and Gender Minority Youth to Advise Community-Based Participatory Research Focused on HIV” is a community-academic HIV research partnership between TaskForce and the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination at the University of Chicago. This project is funded by a Community Collaborative Award from the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research and is led by Christopher V. Balthazar, MA (Co-Principal Investigator) and Darnell Motley, PhD (Co-Principal Investigator).