What was the HIV/AIDS research culture like at Emory?
A. There were a number of investigators working on HIV/AIDS across Emory. Most of their work was domestic. There was little work globally. David Stephens, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine, and I formed an AIDS interest group. From there came a desire to grow and coordinate AIDS research more effectively and to recruit more expert faculty. In 1997, the RSPH, the School of Medicine, and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center formed the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), with funding coming from the NIH a year later. Q. What has CFAR enabled Emory to do? A. Emory is one of 21 federally funded Centers for AIDS Research in the United States. Our center is unusually broad in its vision and initiatives. Prevention is a central theme—health education, research on preventing transmission among adolescents, developing and testing of HIV vaccines, testing microbicides, and prevention and treatment of antiretroviral infections and tuberculosis to p
