Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research
The Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research (CAHDR) conducts research and other scholarly activities designed to identify and understand the factors responsible for the profoundly disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS among the most vulnerable populations. Under the leadership of Executive Director Dr. Chandravanu Dash, the center is embarking on a vision to transform the CAHDR into a Premier Center that leads the charge to eliminate the disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS. This vision is strategically aligned with the mission of Meharry Medical College that “Service to Mankind is Service to God.”
The strategic plan for this transformation has four interconnected areas.
- Promote cutting-edge and collaborative research in basic, translational, clinical, and community and public health aspects of HIV/AIDS.
- Build a Minority Health Focused “HIV/AIDS Data Science Research HUB” to understand, identify and eliminate the adverse social, economic, and racial burden of HIV/AIDS.
- Train the next generation of leaders (scientists/physicians) in HIV/AIDS from underrepresented minority background.
- Lead a socially and culturally integrated outreach program in HIV/AIDS.
Administration
Chandravanu Dash, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Professor and Chair,
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Physiology
cdash@mmc.edu
Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research Team
Affiliated Faculty Members
James E.K. Hildreth, Sr., Ph.D., M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
jhildreth@mmc.edu
Vladimir Berthaud, M.D., MPH
Professor and Division Chief of Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine
vberthaud@mmc.edu
Leah Alexander, Ph.D., MPH
Associate Professor, Public Health Practice
Co-Director, Meharry Community Engagement Core
