Welcome to Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership

Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through a cooperative agreement with the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), the CDC/ASPH Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership is a comprehensive, capacity building educational program designed specifically for HIV prevention program managers who work in community-based organizations (CBOs). The Institute capacity building is focused on a dual track curriculum that integrates principles of public health prevention and strategic planning and management.

Key prevention topics include:

Conducting community assessments

Intervention planning and implementation

Monitoring and evaluation

Behavioral and social theory

Key strategic planning and management topics include:

Strategic planning and management

Social marketing

Media advocacy

Organizational behavior

The curriculum is offered over a period of nine months and includes four weeks of on-site instruction provided approximately once a quarter. Instructional methods and techniques are modeled on adult learning theory and involve didactic presentations coupled with small group exercises, case studies, role-play, and group facilitation exercises. Importantly, the four on-site weeks of instruction are supplemented by distance learning support via the Internet.

Additionally, between on-site sessions, participants must complete an Integrative Learning Experience (ILE) by applying what they learn during each on-site week in their own CBOs. The ILE builds after each week and by the end of their course of study each participant produces a strategic plan to address one business/operational priority and a plan to implement and evaluate an HIV prevention intervention. It is expected that these plans will be used to enhance future funding opportunities. In addition to the distance learning support provided, participants are assigned an advisor who serves as a mentor throughout the entire course of study.

The 2009 Application is closed.

The Institute for HIV Prevention Leadership is no longer accepting applications for the Class of 2009.

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This site supported under a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the
Association of Schools of Public Health, grant number U36/CCU300430-23 awarded to
the University of South Carolina Research Foundation.