Carol Camlin, PhD, MPH

Carol Camlin, PhD, MPH, is Professor in Residence in the Department of Medicine, Division of Prevention Science and Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at UCSF, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences. Collectively, her research program crosses the disciplines of demography, behavioral sciences and public health, and has focused on the study of human mobility and HIV outcomes. She led a recently-completed five-year intervention study that used a social network approach to improve HIV testing and linkage to treatment and prevention among fishermen in Kenya (‘Owete’), and was found to be an effective method for increasing HIV self-testing and linkage to services among highly mobile men. A second area of focus is on applying behavioral and social theory and using qualitative and mixed research methods to design interventions, and to understand the pathways of intervention action in implementation studies and pragmatic clinical trials in health systems and communities in sub-Saharan Africa. She enjoys mentorship and holds a K24 Midcareer Investigator Award that supports her time to devote to mentoring outstanding early career investigators; she also co-leads a Behavioral and Social Science Research training center at Makarere University in Uganda.