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Kenneth Mayer, MD
Kenneth Mayer, MD, is an expert in the field of HIV prevention
and the natural history of the disease. Mayer was one of the first
clinical researchers in New England to care for patients living
with AIDS and in 1983 co-authored The AIDS Fact Book, one
of the first books about AIDS to be written for the general public.
Mayer's primary research focus, supported by grants from the Center
for Disease Control and National Institutes of Health, is the dynamics
of heterosexual HIV transmission and the natural history of HIV
in women, as well as HIV prevention interventions, ranging from
vaccines to microbicides to behavioral methodologies and other strategies.
He has been the principal investigator of four Phase I microbicide
trials, including the first human trial of Tenofovir gel.
Mayer is active in training international physicians and researchers
on HIV as the director of the Brown and Tufts Universities' Fogarty
AIDS International Research and Training Program, which has trained
more than 75 laboratory and clinical investigators from East Asia.
Mayer has worked increasingly in India and participated in many
regional conferences on biological and behavioral approaches to
prevention research and the development of community-based clinical
research activities in Asia.
Mayer received his doctorate from Northwestern University Medical
School and served his internship and residency at Beth Israel Hospital
in Boston. He performed clinical and research fellowships at Harvard
Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Mayer
is a professor of medicine and community health at Brown Medical
School and the medical research director at Fenway Community Health
in Boston.
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