Olga A Reznick

Olga Reznick has been a researcher at CAPS since 1990, first as a fellow in the Traineeship in AIDS Prevention Studies program and now as professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from UCLA in 1981, completed her internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and has been a licensed psychologist in California since 1983. After working as a clinician in community mental health, in student health, and for Kaiser Permanente, she left her clinical career to enter the TAPS fellowship program in 1990. She received her MPH in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 and earned a certificate in alcohol and drug abuse studies from UC Berkeley Extension in 1993. Dr. Reznick was one of the original faculty mentors for this program, returning to it in 2004 after an absence of several years. She directed the program in 2006. Her primary research interest is in the development and evaluation of HIV and STI prevention programs in communities of color. Her research has focused on interventions for incarcerated persons and their families. Initially trained in quantitative methods, Dr. Resnick has also conducted several qualitative interview studies and has published both quantitative and qualitative research findings. She also led the CAPS Technology and Information Exchange (TIE) Core, which is responsible for providing technical assistance to researchers and service providers wishing to apply HIV prevention science to the development of effective programs. The TIE Core is also focused on the development of methods to disseminate CAPS science and the development and support of community-academic research partnerships.