Vanderbilt Projects in Latin America

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Daniel Masys, MD Professor of Biomedical Informatics; Professor of Medicine Office location: 416 Eskind Biomedical Library (Mail: 2209 Garland Ave 37232 (8340)) Phone: (615) 936-1556 Email: dan.masys@Vanderbilt.Edu

Daniel Masys, MD, is the PI for the Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet), which brings together the expertise and resources of Vanderbilt University and clinical and research sites in Latin America. Collaborating sites are the Huesped Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Facultad de Medicina at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile; the GHESKIO centers based in Port-au-Prince, Chile; the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru; and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

The goal of the CCASAnet project is to create a shared repository of HIV data from Central and South America and the Caribbean, and use the combined data to answer questions about the characteristics of the regional HIV epidemic. CCASAnet researchers develop and test new biostatistical methods for HIV epidemiology and conduct a program of education to assist participating sites in improving the quality and consistency of their clinical research activities.

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