Jim Aizire | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Departmental Affiliations

Epidemiology

Primary

Division

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

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Contact Info

615 N. Wolfe Street, Room E7132B

Baltimore

Maryland

21205

410-502-8988

jaizire1@jhu.edu

Research Interests

Infectious Diseases; HIV; HBV; Clinical Trials; Epidemiology

Experiences & Accomplishments

Education

Makerere University

1999

PhD

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2017

MHS

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

2003

Overview

Dr. Aizire is committed to improving public health through advancing medical and infectious disease research, and teaching epidemiology. He has more than 15 years experience conducting multi-center international collaborative research studies including clinical trials and epidemiological studies. Dr. Aizire's current collaborative research relates to HIV: prevention; ART; reproductive health; HIV-exposed-uninfected (HEU) child morbidity and survival; and co-infections such as HBV, TB among others. He is a Co-investigator and the Coordinator of the JHU-Blantyre Clinical Trial Unit (CTU); the multi-country PEPFAR PROMOTE Cohort Study; and the HIV and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Uganda: the H2U Consortium.

Honors & Awards

2015 - Dr. Charlotte Ferencz Innovation Research Award, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) 2015 - Teaching Assistant (TA) Students' Assembly Recognition Award (2015-16), JHBSPH 2015 - Dr. Abraham Lilienfeld Teaching Assistant Fellowship Award (2015-16), Department of Epidemiology, JBSPH 2014 - Dr. and Mrs. Roscoe M. Moore, Jr., Scholarship’, Department of Epidemiology, JHBSPH 2014 - Dr. Robert Dyar Award for outstanding contributions to maternal and child health, Department of Epidemiology, JHBSPH 2013 - International Scholarship Award, 20th Conference on Retroviruses & Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Atlanta, Georgia 2009 - Early Investigator Award, US National Institutes of Health (NIH), International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network 2008 - International Scholarship Award’, 15th Conference on Retroviral & Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Boston, Massachusetts 2001 - US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fogarty International Fellow’, AIDS International Training and Research Program, JHBSPH, Baltimore, MD 2000 - Outstanding Intern-Doctor Award (Honors), Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Mulago National Referral hospital, Kampala, Uganda 1994 - Government of Uganda Scholarship Award, Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda

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Select publications which represent Dr. Aizire's research interests.

Aizire J, Brooks KM, Mirochnick M, Flynn PM, Butler K, Kiser JJ, Siberry GK, Fenton T, Cababasay M, Fowler MG; PROMISE Study Team. Antenatal Intracellular Concentrations of Tenofovir Diphosphate and Emtricitabine Triphosphate and Associations Between Tenofovir Diphosphate and Severe Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: IMPAACT-PROMISE (1077BF) Trial. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2020 Feb 1;83(2):173-180. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002247. PMID: 31929405
Aizire J, Sikorskii A, Ogwang LW, Kawalazira R, Mutebe A, Familiar-Lopez I, Mallewa M, Taha T, Boivin MJ, Fowler MG; PROMISE-NEURODEV study team. Decreased growth among antiretroviral drug and HIV-exposed uninfected versus unexposed children in Malawi and Uganda. AIDS. 2020 Feb 1;34(2):215-225. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002405. PMID: 31634154
Aizire J, Dadabhai S, Taulo F, Makanani B, Gadama L, Sun J, Tsui A, Taha TE. Use of effective family planning methods and frequency of sex among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected African women. Contracept Reprod Med. 2018 Jul 9;3:10. doi: 10.1186/s40834-018-0063-z. eCollection 2018. PMID: 30002871
Aizire J, McConnell MS, Mudiope P, Mubiru M, Matovu F, Parsons TL, Elbireer A, Nolan M, Janoff EN, Fowler MG. Kinetics of nevirapine and its impact on HIV-1 RNA levels in maternal plasma and breast milk over time after perinatal single dose nevirapine. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2012 Aug 15;60(5):483-8
Aizire J, Fowler MG, Coovadia MH. Operational Issues and Barriers to Implementation of Prevention of Mother-to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Current HIV Research. 2013 Mar;11(2):144-59. Review

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Projects

HIV and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Uganda: H2U Consortium

PEPFAR PROMOTE Cohort Study

JHU-Blantyre Clinical Trials Unit (CTU)

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