2014 Articles

Letting HIV Transform Academia — Embracing Implementation Science

El-Sadr, Wafaa Mahmoud; Philip, Neena M.; Justman, Jessica E.

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic has had an extraordinary global impact. Even as it has devastated societies, it has also inspired community empowerment, motivated impressive scientific discoveries, and provoked an unprecedented mobilization of vast resources for a single health condition. Not yet fully realized, however, is the epidemic's potential for expanding the core mission of academic institutions to include the pursuit of a wider range of research.