Doctoral candidate, Laurenia Mangum, has been selected as a Brown University Clinical and Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research Training (CCRT) Fellow for the 2021 cohort. This educational and mentoring program in clinical and community-based research trains new investigators in HIV research who are from or who conduct practice-oriented research in geographic hotspots of HIV infection. This program is led by Dr. Amy Nunn, with support from many other mentors around the United States.
The CCRT program aligns with the US Plan to End the HIV Epidemic (EtHE). The program prioritizes training the next generation of investigators from communities historically underrepresented in the sciences, with emphasis on training investigators from or conducting practice-oriented research in geographic hotspots of HIV infection, with a focus on the South. This mentoring program trains scholars in HIV disparities and health equity research, community-engaged research, geographically circumscribed interventions, implementation science with health departments, and novel delivery of HIV prevention and care interventions.