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 Grant recipents for the Spring 2010 Cycle:

Jeffrey Kuvin, MD: Racial Differences in Vascular Function in HIV

Aadia Rana, MD: Evaluating Factors that Impact Loss to Follow-up Among Postpartum HIV-Infected Women in Mississippi

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.

Research-In-Progress Seminar Series

No Research-In-Progress Seminars are scheduled for July/August. Presentations will resume in September.

View a complete listing of CFAR events

The CFAR Prisoner Health & Human Rights Program

The CFAR Prisoner Health and Human Rights Program 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 Program was created in 2007 to further promote quality medical care for inmates, as well as research and education about correctional healthcare. In addition, the program 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 program 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 program 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).