The Central Africa IeDEA (CA-IeDEA) project is part of the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)– an international research consortium established in 2005 by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to address high priority HIV/AIDS research questions.
The CA-IeDEA network includes 15 partners in Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda, who are utilizing implementation science to identify effective strategies for optimizing HIV care outcomes, including timely diagnosis and care enrollment, care retention, ART initiation and viral suppression. CA-IeDEA partners are also conducting clinical epidemiologic investigations of co-morbidities among people living with HIV, including non-communicable chronic diseases, mental health and substance use disorders, cancer, and tuberculosis. Members of the CA-IeDEA team lead IeDEA technical working groups on mental health and substance use, tuberculosis and lung health, and site assessment surveys, contribute to multi-regional IeDEA studies, and maintain updated policy and population-based data from various sources for use in examining contextual determinants of HIV outcomes.
CA-IeDEA research is jointly led by Dr. Denis Nash (CUNY ISPH), Dr. Marcel Yotebieng (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) and Dr. Gad Murenzi (Research for Development – Rwanda), in partnership with investigators from the Centre National de Reference en Matière de VIH/SIDA (Burundi); the Centres de Traitement Ambulatoire de Pointe Noire and Brazzaville (Republic of Congo); the Clinical Research Education, Networking and Consultancy (CRENC) and Douala General Hospital(Cameroon); the Kinshasa School of Public Health and Kalembelembe Pediatric Hospital (DRC); Data Solutions LLC; Vanderbilt University; Columbia University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Virginia Commonwealth University and Wake Forest Health.
Additional projects have been funded that also partner with the CA-IeDEA network.
- IeDEA WEATHERing HIV supplement
- Understanding and mitigating the influence of extreme weather events on HIV outcomes: A global investigation
Project Investigators
Denis Nash CUNY PI
ISPH Executive Director
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology
Ellen Brazier
ISPH Investigator
Heidi Jones
Professor of Epidemiology
Director of Doctoral Program in Epidemiology
Elizabeth Kelvin
Associate Professor
Department Chairperson
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Angela Parcesepe
Assistant Professor Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chloe Teasdale
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Hongbin Zhang
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
