Director: Bruce Walker, MD
bwalker@partners.org
Associate Director: Myron Essex, MD
messex@hsph.harvard.edu
Administrator: Mark Ingaciola
mark_ingaciola@hms.harvard.edu
The Administrative Core is responsible for overall management and administration of all CFAR activities, providing administrative and scientific leadership, fiscal support and oversight, communications and information services. This Core coordinates and manages all CFAR activities related to NIH-funded AIDS research conducted across the nine CFAR-participating institutions. These institutions are administratively, fiscally, and geographically distinct and diverse. The goal of the CFAR is to promote interactions among researchers at these institutions and to facilitate the transfer of new HIV/AIDS treatments from the laboratory into clinical testing and practice. Administrative activities that contribute to this goal and foster continued or new collaborations in AIDS research are reviewed in this section.
The Administrative Core provides organizational structure to facilitate communication between Cores and members and organizes and coordinates all CFAR functions and activities, including CFAR sponsored symposia and workshops, Executive Committee meetings, External Scientific Advisory Board meetings, Community Advisory Board meetings, and Core-focused meetings. Additionally, this Core is responsible for facilitating effective communication among CFAR Scientific Program members, Core members and users, the general CFAR membership and their colleagues, and the numerous other centers, institutes, and divisions within the Harvard system, such as the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center and the Harvard AIDS Institute .
Specifically, Core activities include the following:
- Provide services that link Cores to each other and other CFAR members and provide the means to communicate across cores and scientific programs.
- Provide administrative and fiscal oversight support to the Developmental Core in the notification, selection, processing, and monitoring of pilot project grants.
- Plan and coordinate collaborative events such as symposia, workshops, dinners and seminars.
- Collect quarterly reports from each Core and present them to the Executive Committee (Executive Committee).
- Oversee and direct the CFAR Strategic Planning process.
- Facilitate inter-institutional collaborations in AIDS research.
- Provide administrative and fiscal management support to each Core and Scientific Program.
- Electronically update CFAR Leaders and members on possible collaborations, funding opportunities, AIDS-related seminars, programs and services.
- Conduct regular evaluations and assessments of CFAR goals and objectives.
- Coordinate and implement reallocation of Core funding, per Executive Committee decisions.
- Ensure that CFAR Leadership and Core Leaders and users follow established policies and procedures and revise policies and procedures, as required.
- Provide scientific leadership that represents the disciplinary and institutional diversity in HIV research at HMS.
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