Associate Professor
UAB Heersink School of Medicine
Dr. Aadia Rana is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Heersink University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine and Associate Scientist with the UAB Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) where she serves as Director of the Ending HIV in Alabama Scientific Working Group. She received her medical degree from UAB, completed internal medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University, and a fellowship in infectious diseases and HIV health services research from Brown University. Her NIH funded research focuses on assessing inequities in HIV outcomes and care utilization, and development and implementation of clinic and community based interventions to improve outcomes among people with and at risk for HIV. She is Chair of AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 5359, a randomized control trial testing a strategy of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy with conditional economic incentives in people with HIV with a history of non-adherence and instrumental in the development of key community and public health partnerships critical to achieving the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) goals and is PI or Co-I on numerous HIV outcomes and effectiveness, hybrid, and implementation science grants conducted in collaboration with public health agencies across the Deep South.