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HIV and AIDS Prevention

Developing HIV and STI-related research activities to understand and modify behaviors to advance health among myriad at-risk populations in resource-limited settings.

Areas of Focus

  • Uptake and adherence to antiretroviral HIV medications
  • Prevalence, incidence, and determinants of HIV and STI 
  • Characterizing social, sexual and drug networks 
  • Integrated psychosocial treatment and HIV risk reduction interventions
  • Modifying behaviors that heighten vulnerability to HIV
  • At-risk populations in resource-limited settings

HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Rhode Island—there is both the need and opportunity to develop HIV-related research activities in Providence. Our faculty have a comprehensive HIV, STI and reproductive health research portfolio in collaboration with various domestic and international partners and funding agencies.

Current research focuses on uptake and adherence to antiretroviral medications for the prevention and treatment of HIV; documenting prevalence, incidence, and determinants (psychosocial, behavioral, biological and structural) of HIV and STI emergence and transmission in various at-risk populations; characterizing social, sexual and drug networks to better understand how connections (e.g., homophily, multiplexity), distributions (e.g., centrality, density), and segmentation (e.g., cohesion) potentiates HIV risk and infection; developing and testing integrated psychosocial treatment and HIV risk reduction interventions; development, evaluation, and implementation of interventions to modify behaviors that heighten an individual's vulnerability to becoming infected, or infecting others, with HIV; and research that advances health among myriad at-risk populations in resource-limited settings. A substantial body of research in CAAS focuses on addressing alcohol, drug, and tobacco use in HIV prevention and care.

Current studies in this topic are being conducted across several continents, including Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe.

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News from CAAS

Dr. Khanna Published in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

June 23, 2021
Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Dr. Aditya Khanna, recently published in the journal Mathematical and Biosciences and Engineering.
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News from CAAS

Dr. Cioe Published in AIDS Care

January 27, 2021
Dr. Patricia Cioe's manuscript titled, "Personalized feedback improves cardiovascular risk perception and physical activity levels in persons with HIV: results of a pilot randomized clinical trial" was recently published in AIDS Care!
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News from Brown

$6.2 million grant renews Alcohol Research Center on HIV funding for five years

July 22, 2020
The grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will fund the center, based at Brown’s School of Public Health, as researchers work to reduce the impact of alcohol misuse on the HIV epidemic.
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Faculty

CAAS faculty engaged in research on HIV/AIDS Prevention

  • Katie Biello

    Katie Biello

    Professor of Epidemiology, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    katie_biello@brown.edu
  • Patricia Cioe

    Patricia Cioe

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    patricia_cioe@brown.edu
  • Kahler

    Christopher Kahler

    Director, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    christopher_kahler@brown.edu
  • Monnig

    Mollie Monnig

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    mollie_monnig@brown.edu
  • peter monti

    Peter Monti

    Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    peter_monti@brown.edu
  • Jaclyn White Hughto

    Jaclyn White Hughto

    Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    jaclyn_hughto@brown.edu
  • tyler wray

    Tyler Wray

    Edens Family Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    tyler_wray@brown.edu

Affiliated Centers and Labs

Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH)

The Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH) is a multidisciplinary program project grant focused on reducing the impact of alcohol on the breadth and depth of the HIV epidemic. Funded by NIAAA in September of 2010, the ARCH comprises 3 major research components in addition to an Administrative Core and a Research Methods Core.
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