Kenneth Mayer

Professor of Medicine and Community Health, Brown; Director, Brown AIDS Program; Attending ID Physician, Miriam Hospital; Adjunct Professor, Harvard University's School of Public Health; Medical Research Director, Fenway Community Health. Conducted studies of HIV's natural history and transmission. One of the first clinical researchers in NE to care for patients living with AIDS. Director, Brown/Tufts/Lifespan Fogarty (NIH) AIDS International Research and Training Program. Has worked increasingly in India. Participant, lecturer and presenter at regional conferences and symposia on biological and behavioral approaches to prevention research and the development of community-based clinical research. Co-edited The Emergence of AIDS: Impact on Immunology, Microbiology, and Public Health, American Public Health Association Press. Has served on Data Safety and Monitoring Board of the NIH's AIDS Clinical Trials Group. Sits on several editorial boards of scientific publications. Has co-authored more than 350 articles, chapters and other publications on AIDS and related infectious disease topics.

Research

Research Overview

Kenneth H. Mayer has studied the natural history of HIV and the biological and prevention aspects of HIV acquisition and transmission since the start of epidemic. He led research teams that documented the first cases of HIV in New England. He studied the heterosexual spread of HIV and viral HIV expression in the male and female genital tracts. He led prevention research studies, including behavioral interventions, microbicides, and vaccine trials. He is also the principal investigator of an international training grant funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Research Statement

Kenneth Mayer has studied the natural history of HIV, as well as the biological and prevention aspects of HIV acquisition and transmission since the start of the epidemic. He has led research teams that have documented the first cases of HIV in New England, studied the heterosexual spread of HIV and viral HIV expression in the male and female genital tracts, and has led prevention research studies, including behavioral interventions as well as microbicide and vaccine trials. He has also been the principal investigator of an international training grant funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has led to new collaborations to define the natural history of HIV in India and to develop cost effective monitoring strategies for people living with HIV as they access generic antiretroviral therapy.

Background

Education and Training

• 1977 MD Northwestern University
• 1972 BA University of Pennsylvania

Honors and Awards

• 2001 Dean's Teaching Excellence Award, Brown Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI
• 2001 Paul J. Galkin Lecturer for Distinguished Leadership in HIV/AIDS, Brown University, Providence, RI.
• 2002 Honorary life membership of The Indian Medical Association, Chennai Central Branch, India
• 2002 Medical Achievement Award, AIDS Project Rhode Island Annual Meeting, Warwick, RI
• 2003 Listed in: Best Doctors in America 2003-2004
• 2004 Dean's Teaching Excellence Award, Brown Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI

Teaching Overview

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• 1987-present Director, Brown University AIDS Program
• 1993-present Professor of Medicine and Community Health Brown University School of Medicine
• 1989-present Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
• 1994-present Executive Committee, Brown University AIDS International Training Program Grant (Fogarty Center, NIH)
• 1996-present Fellowship Director; Principal Investigator: Brown University, International Training Grant in AIDS Epidemiology (Fogarty Center, NIH)
• 1997-present Foreign Studies Fellowship Jury, Brown University School of Medicine
• 1998-present Executive Committee, Lifespan-Brown-Tufts Center for AIDS Research; Director, Prevention Science & Education Core
• 1999-present Executive Committee, Brown University International Health Institute