Assistant Professor Henry Luan was recently awarded the seed grant through the Data Science Initiative’s Seed Funding Program at UO (read about here at Around the O). Luan and his PhD student, Insang Song, along with two professors from Yale University and Johns Hopkins University, respectively, will investigate how the newly diagnosed HIV cases and late-stage HIV diagnosis vary over space and time in Philadelphia, using Bayesian statistical modeling. This research project also explores whether social capital helps explain the space-time variations in HIV prevalence.