The Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research supports both domestic and
international training programs. Those programs within New England consist
of the following:Training in Child/Adolescent Behavioral HIV Research targets specific learning objectives aimed at skills needed for the next generation of HIV research. Core areas of learning include models of behavior and its change behavioral assessment psychiatric/substance abuse disorders, bilology of HIV, and current antiretroviral treatments. Brown:NIDA training program which
provides additional opportunities for Infectious Disease Fellows to pursue
two years of clinical research training in a subject related to diagnosis,
prevention, or treatment of HIV, Hepatitis B and C, STDs, tuberculosis, or
bacterial infections related to substance abuse (DA13911); the HIV
Pathogenesis training program which provides structured
training in areas of metabolic disorders associated with HIV and HIV
therapy, the biology of HIV-associated neurologic diseases, and studies of
pharmacologic aspects attendant to HIV-related therapeutics (AI 07389); and
the Clinical Research on HIV which trains investigators in methods of HIV/AIDS clinical research with an emphasis on nutritional and metabolic issues in HIV, special populations in HIV including women, ethnic minorities, injection drug users, incarcerated populations, outcomes research and decision analysis, international AIDS research, and clinical studies in HIV/AIDS (AI07438).

We also support the training of clinical, laboratory, and public health
researchers from East Asia to slow down HIV spread for more than a decade,
through a direct collaboration with the NIH-funded Fogarty AIDS
International Research and Training Program (AITRP) at Brown University,
programs run through the Brown University International Health Institute
(IHI) and the Brown-Kenya Collaborative Medical Exchange Program.