The student opportunities for AIDS/HIV research program: promoting public health leadership and transformation for undergraduate students through a principles-driven, cohort-based model

Approaches to developing cohorts were employed in addition to leveraging key critical, feminist approaches including embracing difference as key to cohort and leadership development, identifying key collective struggles to build cohesion, fostering a community of care, and embracing diversity across numerous social and developmental locations within the cohort. The SOAR program provides not only key ley lessons outlined, but also an example for future programs to follow and engage in early HIV and public health research leadership development at the undergraduate level.