Hunter Professor Denis Nash to Help Track New York's End of AIDS Initiative

Hunter College Professor Denis Nash was awarded $750,000 over three years by the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH) as part of the Cuomo administration's statewide End of Aids initiative. The funding will be used to create an epidemiologic data dissemination system that will help track the state's progress toward achieving its goal of reducing the number of new HIV infections to below epidemic levels by 2020.

Nash, who joined the Hunter faculty in 2010, is a professor in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the Hunter College School of Urban Public Health and Executive Officer of the Doctor of Public Health Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Nash and his research team, in collaboration with the NYS DOH, will gather, analyze and disseminate data to help the public health community throughout New York State to assess the impact of the End of AIDS initiative and identify gaps in order to optimally target the program. The system is similar to one Nash developed to measure HIV/AIDS-related outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In addition to his work with the state's End of AIDS initiative, Nash currently leads large NIH-funded studies on HIV/AIDS in New York City, Central Africa and Eastern Africa, and serves as Co-chair of the Site Assessment Working Group of the NIH International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS network, and as a member of the trans-NIH Planning Committee on the Epidemiology and Natural History of HIV Infection.