Faculty

Virginia Gonzales

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

My committment is to work with STD/HIV/AIDS in populations of women and underserved communities nationally and internationally.

EdD

Harvard University, 1988
Counseling, Consulting Psychology

MPH

University of California (Berkeley), 1974
Community Mental Health

MSW

University of California (Berkeley), 1971
Social Work

California State University, Los Angeles, 1969
Sociology

Senior Lecturer, Global Health (primary appt.)

Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
- Social and Behavioral Sciences Track, (MPH program)
- Health Care and Population Health Research Track, (MPH program)
- Department of Global Health, (MPH Program)

Virginia Gonzales is a Senior Consultant for International Projects for TVT Synergy at the UW Center for Health Education and Research. This 5 year USAID funded project focuses on HIV/AIDS control activities in developing countries. Professor Gonzales is also the Director of Education for a Fogarty Funded project with a mandate to train health providers on applications of computer technologies and information science in public health. She served as Co-Principal Investigator on a project that focused on STD/HIV/AIDS in high-risk women. She also served as the Health Education Specialist for the WHO Global Program on AIDS in South East Asia.

Contact Information

International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH)
901 Boren, Suite 1100
Box: 359932
Seattle, WA 98104
(voice) 206-616-1355 (fax) 206-221-4945
gonza@u.washington.edu

Teaching Interests

Training of trainers in STD/HIV/AIDS CounselingTraining of trainers in STD/HIV/AIDS prevention

Research Interests

Womens' health, national and international STD/HIV/AIDS prevention

Projects

Co-Director, Multicultural International Research Training Fellowship (MIRT)

NIH Funded Project

Senior Consultant to International Projects, TvT Synergy

TvT Synergy is a five year performance-based contract that provides technical assistance to the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) in the design, evaluation, and coordination of HIV/AIDS programs, and in the identification and dissimination of lessons learned from these programs. The Synergy Project is implemented by TvT associates, Inc., with support from the University of Washington Center for AIDS and STD (CFAS)

Committe Member for International Committe of the Lifelong AIDS Alliance

This committee focuses on HIV/AIDS actitivies in developing countries.

External Funding (sampling of current and past involvement)

International AIDS Education and Training Center

Health Resources Services Administration
PI: Holmes Dates: 04/2006 - 03/2011
IAETC will participate in a collaboration with UCSF to improve the care of people living with HIV/AIDS in heavily affected, low-resource areas outside the US by increasing the capacity for training of HIV/AIDS health care providers.

Guyana Training Centre Tech Support

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
PI: Downer Dates: 04/2005 - 03/2007
The primary goal of this project is to establish the Guyana Training Coordination Centre which will complement the HIV-training activities of other in-country partners by functioning as a coordinating unit.

International AIDS Education and Training Center

Health Resources Services Administration
PI: Holmes Dates: 04/2002 - 03/2006
The goal of this project is to implement a coordinated plan that will lead to long lasting improvements in the quality, composition, and scope of care given to people living with HIV/AIDS in designated priority countries around the globe.

USAID CHART Plus

USAID
PI: Downer Dates: 09/2003 - 09/2004
The purpose of this project is to assist USAID regional office for the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Network by providing technical assistance for the development of activities.

Prevention of Trade and Travel Related Emerging Infections in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

Association of Schools of Public Health
PI: Kimball Dates: 10/1996 - 09/2002
Promotes the prevention, surveillance and control of emerging infections in Asia and the Pacific.

Developing Appropriate Prenatal Materials for Spanish-Speakers in Managed Care

AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
PI: Gonzales Dates: 09/1998 - 09/1999
Improved prenatal care and practices for Spanish-speaking women.

Selected Publications

Van Devanter, N., Gonzales, V., Merzel, C., Fox, Margaretta., Parikh, N., Celantano, D., Greenberg, J. Effectiveness of an STD/HIV Behavior Change Intervention on Women's Use of the Female Condom. Accepted by AJPH for publication 2001.

Karras BT., Kimball AM., Gonzales V., Pautler NA., Alarcon J., Garcia P., Fuller SS. MedInfo2001 of the international medical informatics association (www.medinfo2001.org) 2001.

Smith, S., Gonzales, V. All Plans Need CLAMS: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Material for diverse Populations. HeathPlan. Sept/Oct. 2000.

Gonzales, V., Washienko, KW., Chapman, LI., Arredondo, EM., Huckeba, HJ., Krone, MR., Downer, A. Sexual and Drug Risk Factors for HIV and STDs: A Comparison of Women With and Without Bisexual Experiences. American Journal of Public Health. December, 1999.

Greenberg, J., Lifshay, J., VanDevanter, N., Gonzales, V., Celentano, D. Journal of Women's Health. Preventing HIV Infection: The Effects of Community Linkages, Time, and Money on Recruiting and Retaining Women in Intervention Groups. Journal of Women's Health, 7:587-596, 1998.

Dissertation, Thesis and Capstone Committees (recent graduates)

2007

Member, thesis committee for Harriet Dumba

Knowledge and attitudes around HIV/AIDS in an on-going conflict setting: Southern Sudan

2006

Member, thesis committee for Ira Stollak

Truckers, chavas, and cachimbas: Rapid evaluation of the HIV risk and social capital of long-haul truckers on the Mexico-Belize frontier

2005

Member, thesis committee for Brian Levack

Understandin Men's Low Utilization of HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Soweto, South Africa

2004

Member, thesis committee for Antoinette Angulo