In the November 20, 2018 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, an editorial titled, “Learning ‘Known Unknowns’ and ‘Unknown Unknowns’ to Cure HIV” was written by Dr. D’Aquila, director of the Third Coast CFAR and an NIH-funded program project aimed at learning how to achieve a sustained remission of HIV after stopping antiretroviral therapy [...]
Bridges Program Staff Position Opening Research Study Coordinator, Senior (Job ID: 34935) The Bridges Program is housed in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine (www.bridges.northwestern.edu). Bridges develops innovative implementation research methods to foster partnerships between community, service delivery, and research expressly addressing health and equity. The Research [...]
The University of Mississippi’s Department of Economics in the College of Liberal Arts and the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center invite applications for one associate or full professor position beginning August 2019. A primary research specialization in health economics is required, as is a PhD in [...]
NYU’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab is searching for a postdoctoral fellow to work collaboratively on one of our new R01 projects. The project investigative team includes Dr. Ichiro Kawachi (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Dr. Asa Radix (Callen-Lorde Community Health Center) as well as Dr. John Schneider (University of Chicago School of Medicine), among other leading scholars [...]
The Third Coast CFAR congratulates Judd Hultquist, PhD, for his recent appointment as an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Hultquist was a postdoctoral fellow in systems biology at the J. David Gladstone Institutes at UCSF and earned a PhD in molecular biology and virology from the University of Minnesota. [...]
Dr. John Schneider, director of the Third Coast CFAR Developmental Core, and CFAR director, Dr. Richard D’Aquila, would like to congratulate Inger Burnett-Zeigler, PhD Emily Miller, MD, MPH, Ann Carias, PhD, Jia Chen, PhD, Amy Johnson, PhD, Danijela Maric, PhD and Darnell Motley, PhD, who were selected for CFAR pilot awards. These high impact projects [...]
POSITION SUMMARY: The Social and Behavioral Research Project Coordinator will work closely with the Director of Social and Behavioral Research to implement and supervise several research studies across multiple medical sites. Individual should have a successful track record of meeting recruitment goals, working with multiple stakeholders, and adapting to different research protocols to ensure compliance. [...]
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of NIAID, and Tara A. Schwetz, PhD, chief of NIAID Strategic Planning & Evaluation Branch, recently published an article in The Journal of Infectious Diseases discussing the impact advancements in HIV research have had on the broader landscape of infectious diseases research. The article states that scientists have gleaned critical insights [...]
The HIV Implementation Science Workshop was held in Chicago, IL on April 10-11, 2018. A collaborative group, led by Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University, was awarded funding from an administrative supplement for an Inter-CFAR meeting focused on advancing the methods and measures of HIV-related implementation science. The meeting gathered implementation science experts, HIV implementation researchers, [...]
DEADLINE: January 8, 2019 The HIV Vaccine Trials Network, in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is investing in a young generation of HIV prevention researchers by providing African-American and Latinx medical students with opportunitiesto conduct independent research while receiving mentoring, project and [...]