Adaora Alise Adimora

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• In memoriam
  January 1, 2024 - 10:15 AM
  
  It is with great sadness that we report that after a long illness, Dr. Ada Adimora, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, and Epidemiology has passed.
  
  Ada worked at UNC as a national and international leader for more than three decades. She was committed to improving the care of underserved populations and she was a tireless and fearless advocate for women living with HIV and at risk for HIV.
  
  Ada was loved and admired by all those she touched, and her loss leaves a gap that cannot be filled.
  
  We will miss Ada and her creativity, warmth, passion, and courage.
  
  We will update you about local arrangements, and we will celebrate Ada and her contributions more broadly in the spring.
  
  With heavy hearts,
  Mike and Joe
  
  Myron S. Cohen, MD
  Yeargan-Bate Eminent Professor
  Director, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
  
  Joseph J. Eron, MD
  Herman and Louise Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine
  Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
• "Do what you like, what's important, and what's right." (36 mn)
  Giselle Corbie interviews Adaora Adimora, as part of the podcast A Different Kind of Leader. December 6, 2022
• *2020 Thomas Jefferson Award
  Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor Adaora Adimora received the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Award.
• 2010 World AIDS Day at the White House
  The December 1, 2010 event featured remarks from President Barack Obama, Jeffrey Crowley, Rev. Kimberly Brown Barnes, Melody Barnes, Rajiv Shah, Anthony Fauci, and Eric Goosby, followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Eric Goosby, with Adaora Adimora, Jennifer Kates, Christopher Collins, Rupali Das, and Anthony Fauci.
  
• 2010 World AIDS Day conversation with Dr. Ada Adimora (3 min)
  UNC Epidemiologist Dr. Ada Adimora as she shares her perspective on the importance of social factors in disparities in HIV infection. She was invited by the White House to participate in a panel discussion with Secretary of State Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius.
• 2020 Edward H. Kass Lecturer at IDWeek
  IDWeek is the joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the HIV Medical Association (HIVMA), the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP). The 2020 Edward H. Kass Lecture is scheduled for 10:00am-10:30am ET on Thursday, Oct. 22.
• 2020 Edward H. Kass Lecturer at IDWeek (32 min recording)
  The IDWeek 2020 Edward H. Kass Lecture was given by Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina. Her lecture, titled “All Policy Is Health Policy: Pathways to HIV (and COVID-19),” focuses on how social and political forces contribute to the distribution of HIV (and COVID-19) among Black Americans. She also explores the pathways between these forces and racial inequities in the U.S.
• Adaora Adimora On Capitol Hill
  UNC CFAR Co-Director Adaora Adimora joined the HIV Medicine Association and Infectious Diseases Society of America members on Capital Hill to advocate & educate members of Congress on federal funding & policy issues. In HIViews CFAR E-bulletin / UNC CFAR Spotlight, 3/24/2023
• Adimora elected to National Academy of Medicine
  Adaora Adimora, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
• Adimora Recognized for Contributions to COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
  December 15, 2021
  The NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines are considered a gold standard for their accuracy and have received more than 27 million page views since launching.
  National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, MD, recognized Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, on Dec. 8 for her contributions to the NIH’s COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines.
• Characteristics of multiple and concurrent partnerships among women at high risk for HIV infection.
  Characteristics of multiple and concurrent partnerships among women at high risk for HIV infection. Adimora AA, Hughes JP, Wang J, Haley DF, Golin CE, Magnus M, Rompalo A, Justman J, del Rio C, El-Sadr W, Mannheimer S, Soto-Torres L, Hodder SL; HPTN 064 Protocol Team. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2014 Jan 1;65(1):99-106.
• Dr. Adaora Adimora On How HIV Impacts Women and Minorities
  April 7, 2022
  For National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, AIDSVu spoke with Dr. Adaora Adimora about increasing the rate of PrEP use among women and minorities impacted by HIV.
  
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  Includes many lovely photos.
• Fauci Commends Adimora For COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines
  May 20, 2020
  Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has commended Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, for participating in a panel that has developed a set of treatment guidelines for COVID-19.
  “You responded in an exceptional way and worked tirelessly to develop an outstanding initial set of guidelines in two weeks,” Fauci said in his letter to Adimora. “In the first week after their release on April 21, 2020, there were more than one million page views, highlighting the importance of your work.”
• Focus Carolina: Ada Adimora
  Transcript of interview for Focus Carolina, a WCHL program hosted by UNC Provost Bob Blouin and sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (courtesy of the Internet Archive)
• HIVMA names Adimora 2020 clinical educator of the year
  October 29, 2020
  The HIV Medicine Association, or HIVMA, has honored UNC infectious diseases professor Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, with its 2020 Clinical Educator Award. The award, presented during the annual IDWeek conference, recognizes Adimora’s “extraordinary contributions to advancing clinical education, with a focus on disseminating her research on the drivers of HIV-related racial disparities.”
• HIV prevention for women - questions regarding PreP (5 min)
  2015 National Summit Afternoon Plenary Session: The Current State and Future Prospects for Bio-Behavioral HIV Prevention on Friday June, 5th 2015.
• HIV-Related Challenges Facing Women & Minorities – with Dr. Adaora Adimora
  Women and minorities often face extra challenges related to preventing and treating HIV, especially for those in a high-risk environment or who have difficulty accessing medical care. Dr. Adaora Adimora describes specific ways to help these individuals have better outcomes. Dr. Adimora is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
• OvercomingBarriersToDiversifyingClinicalTrials
  Dr. Adaora Adimora was a panelist in this National Academies virtual workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Diversifying Clinical Trials. On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual event to inform its consensus study report, Improving the Representation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Clinical Trials and Research.
• Policies and politics that promote HIV infection in the Southern United States.
  Policies and politics that promote HIV infection in the Southern United States. Adimora AA, Ramirez C, Schoenbach VJ, Cohen MS. AIDS. 2014 Jun 19;28(10):1393-7.
• Preventing HIV infection in women.
  Preventing HIV infection in women. Adimora AA, Ramirez C, Auerbach JD, Aral SO, Hodder S, Wingood G, El-Sadr W, Bukusi EA; HIV Prevention Trials Network Women at Risk Committee. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2013 Jul;63 Suppl 2:S168-73.
• Professor Adaora Adimora named to "The Root 100" list of top African-American leaders
• Public Health in a Hostile Environment: Racial Inequality and STD/HIV in the US (62 min)
  Presentation for the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, 2019?
  
• Remarks at Vic Schoenbach Retirement Party (2:40)
  Ada Adimora spoke most graciously at a gathering in the lower atrium of the Michael Hooker Research Center, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health on the occasion of Victor Schoenbach's retirement party, November 1, 2018
• Sex ratio, poverty, and concurrent partnerships among men and women in the United States: a multilevel analysis.
  Sex ratio, poverty, and concurrent partnerships among men and women in the United States: a multilevel analysis. Adimora AA, Schoenbach VJ, Taylor EM, Khan MR, Schwartz RJ, Miller WC. Ann Epidemiol. 2013 Nov;23(11):716-9. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.08.002. Epub 2013 Oct 5.
• Testimony on Price Spikes in Prescription Drugs
  Testimony for the Record, Submitted to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging for the Hearing on Sudden Price Spikes in Decades-Old Prescription Drugs. March 17, 2016
  Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, Immediate Past Chair, HIV Medicine Association; Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
  at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• U.S. House Oversight Committee, U.S. HIV/AIDS Infection, Sept 16, 2008
  Rep. Henry Waxman, presiding. Presented by C-SPAN.
  Dr. Adimora's testimony occurs in panel 2, at about 1 hour 42 minutes.
  A hearing was held on the report released the previous month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which announced that there were 56,300 new HIV infections in the United States in 2006. This figure, using new methods, was forty percent more than estimated. Topics included challenges to effective intervention programs such as budget, policies that restrict evidence-based programming, and apparent political and ideological interference. The transcript is available at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110hhrg56578/html/CHRG-110hhrg56578.htm
• UNC School of Medicine Announces Three New Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professors
  March 8, 2018
  Three exemplary physician-scientists at the UNC School of Medicine – David Margolis, MD, Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, and Janet Rubin, MD – have been named Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professors. (Archived page courtesy of the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.)
• US failing to reach those most in need of HIV prevention, treatment services in South and rural areas
  February 23, 2021
  Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, co-authored a six-paper series in The Lancet focused on racial, sexual, and gender minorities continuing to be affected by HIV at significantly higher rates than white people, a disparity also reflected in the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Who Is Rochelle Walensky, Biden's Pick For CDC Director?
  Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR All Things Considered, December 9, 2020
• Why Should Black Women Participate in Research?
  March 18, 2021
  A new UNC Health video encourages Black women to participate in research and features Ada Adimora, MD, MPH, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. https://news.unchealthcare.org/2021/03/why-should-black-women-participate-in-research/
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• With $19.4M, UNC researchers will combat chronic illnesses linked with HIV
  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) selected UNC-Chapel Hill as one of the 13 Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study / Women’s Interagency HIV Study Combined Cohort Study (MACS/WIHS-CCS) sites after a competitive application process. Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, is the principal investigator of the UNC site.