Deborah Weiss MA, PhD

Deborah L. Jones Weiss a Clinical Psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UM), co-director of the Center for HIV Research on Mental Health (CHARM), co-director of the HIV & Women Program of the UM Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and PI/MPI of the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS). She has been PI and Co-PI on national and international grants conducting cohort-based research on HIV/AIDS for over two decades. She has extensive experience in community-based recruitment and has worked with underrepresented minority men and women with and at risk for HIV domestically and internationally since 1985. She has been PI and collaborator on large biobehavioral cohort studies in Miami FL on HIV and COVID, and HIV, mental health, substance use, and sex/gender-based disparities (e.g., PI Jones/Kumar, R01DA034589; PI: Jones; K18DA031463; R01MH110242-S1).

Deborah has conducted research using qualitative/mixed methods (R01HD078187-S, R01MH110242 – S1), implementation science and dissemination methodologies (R01HD078187, PI Weiss, R01MH095539), and community-based translational strategies (PI Weiss, R01MH55463, PI Weiss R18PS000829). She has collaborated with senior and early-stage and new investigators on developing HIV-related projects addressing health disparities, behavioral research, comorbidities, and basic science in Miami, Argentina, Zambia, and India. She has advanced training in Motivational Interviewing and has led several MI studies (community health workers (CHWs), R01HD078187; physicians, R34 MH097609; R01MH110242, peers, R01DA034589) and has an excellent foundation in MI training and implementation.