The Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is a joint research effort between Tufts and Brown Universities and their affiliated hospitals and centers. The CFAR is part of a national program begun by the National Institutes of Health in 1988. There are currently 20 Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs) located at academic medical centers throughout the U.S.

The CFAR Developmental Grants Program is announcing a request for applications for the Spring 2010 cycle. Applications are due to the CFAR office by April 1, 2010.

Donna Akiyoshi, PhD: Molecular Epidemiology of the Microsporidium Enterocytozoon bieneusi

Traci Craig Green, PhD: Initiation of Heroin Use and Injection in a National Sample of Drug Users

Tao Liu, PhD: Methods to Optimize Use of Limited Resources for Monitoring Treatment of HIV/AIDS in the Developing World

Amy Nunn, ScD: Exploring Prevalence of Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among African Americans: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach

Other past awardees and approved projects

Additional information and application instuctions.

CFAR Minority Travel Scholarships are available to minority faculty members or trainees in the area of HIV/AIDS research. Click here for more information.

CFAR Special Presentation

"Cost-per-HIV Infection Averted in Africa: Couples’ Testing vs. ‘Test-and-Treat’
with ART"

Susan Allen, MD, MPH
Professor, Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Emory University School of Medicine

March 18, 2010
3:00 - 4:00 PM
The Miriam Hospital - Steven Baron Lecture Hall

Research-In-Progress Seminar Series:

3/5/10 - CANCELLED

3/19/10 - "Double Jeopardy: The Impact of Mental Illness on Parenting and Adolescent Sexual Risk Taking" presented by Wendy Hadley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Research) at Brown University

View a complete listing of CFAR events

The CFAR Prisoner Health & Human Rights Working Group

The CFAR Prisoner Health and Human Rights Working Group is a collaboration of doctors, social workers and allied health staff from a variety of medical disciplines with the common mission of preserving the basic rights and needs of individuals detained in correctional systems, both in the United States and abroad. The Working Group was created in 2007 to further promote quality medical care for inmates, as well as research and education about correctional healthcare. In addition, the Working Group is also committed to advocacy for prisoners, in particular towards securing basic protections such as access to care, safety and humane treatment.

Members of the Working Group have published over sixty articles specific to correctional healthcare in peer-reviewed journals, and have been recognized as leaders in the field of correctional medicine. In addition, they have published hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals in the overlapping areas of infectious diseases and mental health. Subsequently, they have helped set the national standard for HIV and hepatitis diagnosis and treatment, and continue to explore innovative approaches in the management of substance abuse and harm reduction.

In addition to expanding research and education about correctional healthcare, the Working Group will also be used as a means to articulate policy recommendations and promote advocacy on behalf of prisoner health and human rights issues.

To extend the awareness across the country, an inter-CFAR collaborative effort was established in 2009 -Collaboration on HIV in Corrections (CFAR-CHIC).

Dr. Rich is Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Alpert Medical School at Brown University and Attending Physician at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a practicing internist and an infectious disease specialist. He completed medical school at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Internship and Residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He subsequently received his MPH from Harvard School of Public Health, and completed HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He provides medical care both at The Miriam Hospital Immunology Center and at the Rhode Island State Correctional Facility where he provides infectious disease sub-specialty care. He also serves as Medical Director for the Whitmarsh House, the State of Rhode Island's only STD Clinic. Dr. Rich's research is on the overlap between infectious diseases and illicit substance use. He is the Principal or Co-investigator on several research grants involving the treatment and prevention of HIV infection. Dr. Rich has advocated for public health policy changes to improve the health of people with addiction, including improving legal access to sterile syringes and increasing drug treatment for incarcerated populations. He is Director and Co-Founder, along with Dr. Scott Allen, of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital Immunology Center, www.prisonerhealth.org and is the co-Leader of the CFAR-CFAR Collaboration on HIV in Corrections (CFAR-CHIC).