Project Summary Over the past 40 years, dramatic advances in the understanding of HIV infection and its therapy have transformed HIV into a highly treatable, chronic disease. Along with this evolution, critical questions have arisen about how basic research and clinical trials can best be linked to clinical epidemiology and outcomes research, both in the U.S. and internationally. The goal of the Program for AIDS Clinical Research Training (PACRT) — which has successfully trained multiple generations of leading HIV clinical investigators for the past 30 years — is to provide training in quantitative research methodologies with a focus on HIV clinical research to pre-doctoral PhD students and physician investigators at the most formative stages of their careers. This training has prepared both groups to conduct clinical research of the highest quality and of direct relevance to the prevention and treatment of HIV infection. These young investigators have made important and substantive contributions to the scientific literature and to HIV clinical care and policy, and a large majority have developed into successful independent investigators. In the next grant cycle, the PACRT trainees will receive two years of research training under the close supervision and mentorship of one or more of the 14 diverse and experienced program faculty members. Trainees will receive didactic training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health or other Harvard University sites. Primary performance sites for the five post- doctoral fellows will be the Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School. The primary site for the two pre-doctoral fellows will be the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This program has three specific aims for its trainees: 1) To acquire a sufficient body of knowledge of quantitative methods to conduct independent research in: clinical epidemiology, outcomes research, implementation science, cost-effectiveness analysis, and/or clinical trials in HIV. 2) To foster the creation of important scientific contributions with the close and longitudinal mentorship of program faculty. 3) To develop a primary research focus and broad understanding of the various aspects of HIV disease for novel interdisciplinary investigation, leading to a successful career focused on HIV research.