Mission of the Personalized HIV Care Scientific Working Group (SWG)
The Scientific Working Groups (SWGs) comprise Tennessee CFAR members with diverse expertise in scientific discovery, clinical care, public health, biostatistics, informatics, and community engagement. The two SWGs ("Disparities and HIV" and "Personalized HIV Care") have synergistic and overlapping goals to improve HIV care at the population and individual level, respectively. These SWGs will drive research and implementation strategies to deliver on the Tennessee CFAR mission to reduce the burden of HIV/AIDS.
Specific Aims of the Personalized HIV Care SWG
- To connect clinical investigators, laboratory scientists, and public health practitioners with interest in addressing personalized HIV care.
- To nurture trans-institutional and trans-disciplinary protocol teams that implement and complete collaborative research addressing critical questions relevant to personalized HIV care.
Personalized HIV Care initiatives to address these Aims will include:
- Regularly scheduled Personalized HIV Care SWG meetings, including joint meeting with the CC-SWG, to:
- Review local, national, and international data in the field of personalized HIV care;
- Encourage engagement of new HIV researchers in community engaged research (CEnR), health disparities, quantitative methods, and other areas directly related to personalized HIV care;
- Identify ways to fill gaps in resources and expertise.
- Leveraging resources from TN-CFAR and institutional Cores, and developing a collaborative, high-priority research agenda that competes for pilot funding through the TN-CFAR DC, Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR), and/or Meharry Clinical and Translational Research Center (MeTRC).
- Submitting multi-investigator grant applications to NIH to support innovative personalized HIV care projects.
Contacts
Tennessee-CFAR (TN-CFAR@vumc.org)
Phone: 615-343-8776