Please join us in congratulating DC CFAR Clinical and Population Sciences Core Senior Advisor and Global HIV Scientific Interest Group Co-Lead Dr. Natella Rakhmanina (Children's National), on becoming a PI for the Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Children’s National site consortium within the Westat-led ATN Operations and Collaborations Center (OCC). The ATN is sponsored by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), develops and conducts innovative behavioral, community-based, translational, therapeutic, microbicide, and vaccine trials in youth ages 13-24 at risk for HIV and living with HIV, with a focus on the inclusion of minors. Westat recently received the $70,000,000 7-year award to facilitate transdisciplinary research through organizational leadership and collaboration support for the ATN-specific agenda that addresses substantial and disproportionate gaps in health outcomes across the HIV prevention and care continuum for youth. The new OCC is the hub of nine site consortiums that work within the ATN structure to implement studies that address youth-focused scientific priority areas across the HIV prevention and treatment continuum.

Below you will find several resources of interest developed and gathered by DC CFAR partner institutions and community-based organizations. We encourage you to send information that may be of interest to our DC CFAR community to CFARinDC@gmail.com.