Staff

James Wiley, Ph.D.
Program Director
Director, Public Research Institute

 

James Wiley was appointed Professor of Sociology and Director of Public Research Institute (PRI) at San Francisco State University in 2002. He is Project Director on the new Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions Grant from NIH’s National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. His current research focuses on two topics: interconnections between social science and public health and building bridges between quantitative and qualitative methods. From 1974 to 1980 he conducted research on life style and longevity as Research Director of the Human Population Laboratory of the California Department of Health Services. In 1980 he became Assistant Director and Research Sociologist at the Survey Research Center (SRC) of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served for 19 years as Principal Investigator on a variety of large-scale survey projects and taught graduate courses on methods of research in the Sociology Department. While at SRC he was, from 1984 until 1996, Co-Principal Investigator with Warren Winkelstein of the NIAID-funded San Francisco Men’s Health Study of the natural history and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in homosexual and bisexual men. In 1999, Dr. Wiley assumed the position of Vice President for Research and Evaluation at the non-profit Public Health Institute (PHI) of Berkeley. PHI specializes in research, training and action programs in public health.