About the HPTN | The HIV Prevention Trials Network

Our Mission

The HPTN is dedicated to the discovery and development of new and innovative research strategies to reduce the acquisition and transmission of HIV.

The HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) is a worldwide collaborative clinical trials network that brings together investigators, ethicists, community and other partners to develop and test the safety and efficacy of interventions designed to prevent the acquisition and transmission of HIV. HPTN studies and evaluates new HIV prevention interventions and strategies in populations and geographical regions that bear a disproportionate burden of infection. The HPTN is committed to the highest ethical standards for its clinical trials and recognizes the importance of community engagement in all phases of the research process.

The HPTN research agenda is focused primarily on the use of integrated strategies: use of antiretroviral drugs (antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis), interventions for substance abuse, particularly injection drug use, and behavioral risk reduction interventions with structural interventions.

The HPTN was established in 2000, building on the work of the HIV Network for Prevention Trials (HIVNET). HPTN’s Leadership and Operations Center (LOC), is based at FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina. The Laboratory Center (LC) is at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland and the Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) is housed within the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP) at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. The HPTN Modelling Centre, part of the SDMC, is a collaboration between the Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology at Imperial College London and SCHARP.

HPTN receives funding from three NIH institutes: the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Learn More:

HPTN Populations of Focus

HPTN Fact Sheet

The HPTN Leadership and Operations Center (LOC) – webinar

The HPTN Statistical and Data Management Center (SDMC) – webinar

Conversations with the HPTN

Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha

Dr. Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, an HPTN 084 and HPTN 104 study team member, is an assistant professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, research director at ICAP in Eswatini, and CRS leader at the Eswatini Prevention Center Clinical Research Site (CRS).

Russell Campbell

Russell Campbell is the director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC) at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle. Russell is a mentor with a career dedicated to supporting public health and racial injustice and has been involved in HIV, prostate cancer, diabetes treatment, and prevention research efforts for three decades. Russell is committed to addressing health disparities disproportionately impacting underrepresented communities in clinical research.

Lisa Haddad

Dr. Lisa Haddad, HPTN 104 protocol chair, is the medical director of the Center for Biomedical Research (CBR) at the Population Council and adjunct professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Nabila El-Bassel

Dr. Nabila El-Bassel, HPTN 094 study co-chair, is a professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work in New York. She is also director of the Social Intervention Group (SIG), director of the Columbia University Center for Healing of Opioid and Substance Use Disorders (CHOSEN), and director of the Columbia University Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (GHRCCA). Dr. El-Bassel has designed and tested many cutting-edge, multilevel HIV/AIDS and drug-use prevention and intervention models.