CMHRA Office of the Director
Overview
The CMHRA Office of the Director includes programs that address issues pertinent to all of the programs within the Center.
Director
Ellen L. Stover, Ph.D.
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6217, MSC 9621
301-443-9700, estover@mail.nih.gov
Areas of Emphasis
- Clarify the impact of new biomedical technologies (e.g., microbicides, vaccines, rapid tests, genetic advances) on HIV risk behaviors.
- Foster dissemination, translation, and operational research on ways to implement and enhance long-term maintenance behavior change.
- Promote the global adoption of primary preventive interventions.
- Identify molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying HIV-associated dementia, and develop therapeutic agents to prevent or treat the dementia.
- Identify host and HIV viral genetics that render susceptibility or protection to neuronal dysfunction.
- Identify/characterize HIV-associated cognitive or motor dysfunction and assess it in the context of mental illness and HIV-associated comorbidities.
