The Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) is a research center housed at Rutgers University with a data collection center at New York University. CHIBPS is a leading HIV, substance abuse and mental health behavior research is focused on the well-being of all people, including sexual, racial, ethnic and other cultural minorities and other marginalized populations. We train the future generation of behavioral and public health researchers and work with community partners to conduct research that resides on the hyphen between theory and practice.