Our research is focused on infectious disease epidemiology and prevention research.

Hong Van Tieu, MD, MS
Head, Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, New York Blood Center enterprises

Hong Van Tieu, MD, MS
Head, Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention


• Leader in HIV and infectious disease epidemiology and prevention research
• Part of the largest clinical trials program devoted to the development and testing of preventive HIV vaccines worldwide
• Participates in studies looking at long-acting injectable medications that work as pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV
• Design and test innovative prevention strategies to increase HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and reduce risk.
• Part of the NIH/NIAID-funded COVID-19 Prevention Trials Network (CoVPN) testing the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of vaccines to prevent COVID-19