Project Description

CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) promotes health and quality of life by preventing HIV infection and reducing HIV illness and death in the United States.
Our project involves all aspects of the guideline development process and provides the opportunity to gain hands on experience with the development of HIV prevention guidelines and related products. The activities encompass completion of literature searches in collaboration with a librarian, conducting systematic or scoping reviews to synthesize evidence for HIV prevention as well as translation of public health/scientific data into guideline related materials. The project requires reviewing and critically evaluating a variety of evidence to support each guideline recommendation following agreed upon methodology by using Distiller, a systematic review software that manages, tracks, and streamlines the screening, data extraction, and reporting processes of systematic reviews. The findings of our research are summarized in guideline documents and/or papers that we publish in scientific journals. We also present our findings at local and national conferences. This position will primarily assist with screening and coding of studies with exposure to the other steps in our process including developing presentations and manuscripts.

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Additional Information

This position will be on the Guideline Development Team in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. DHAP promotes health and quality of life by preventing HIV infection and reducing HIV illness and death in the United States and provides leadership in helping control the spread of HIV/AIDS by working with community, state, national, and international partners in surveillance, research, and prevention and evaluation activities. More information on DHAP is available at: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap/about.html. The mission of our team is to improve transparency, validity, reliability, and applicability of DHAP guidelines by ensuring that they follow CDC’s guideline development standards. The team coordinates, monitors, and guides the Division’s activities related to the development, adaptation, dissemination, implementation, and evaluation of guidelines and supporting material. In its work, the team collaborates with DHAP staff, DHAP senior leadership, the Office of Science Quality, other CDC Divisions, as well as external federal and non-federal partners. To learn more about us, please go to: http://intranet.cdc.gov/nchhstp/dhap/offices/oppc/guidelines.shtml