Dr. Aadia Rana is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and an Associate Scientist with the UAB Center for AIDS Research. Dr. Rana's primary research area focuses on disparities in access and adherence to medical treatment among people living with HIV, and implementation of evidence-based interventions to improve engagement with HIV care. Her work incorporates health services research, behavioral sciences, social sciences, and clinical medicine. She has a career developmental grant from the National Institute of Mental Health evaluating postpartum retention in HIV care in Mississippi, and is co-chair of a AIDS Clinical Trials Group randomized control trial testing a strategy of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy with conditional economic incentives in HIV-infected patients with a history of non-adherence. She is also co-director of the UAB CFAR’s Ending HIV in Alabama Scientific Working Group which includes a broad range of clinical, epidemiologic, socio-behavioral researchers as well as community and public health partners catalyzing Birmingham and Alabama’s progression toward the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goals (https://www.uab.edu/medicine/cfar/core-facilities/90-90-90-initiative).
