Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research (CBAR)
CBAR’s mission is to foster statistical science in clinical trials and other research studies in infectious diseases particularly HIV. CBAR pursues this mission by promoting innovative strategies for the design, data monitoring, analyses, and reporting of research studies, and by providing education and training relevant to statistical aspects of infectious disease research.
FXB Building
651 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115-6017
Welcome to CBAR
CBAR was founded as a Center within the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1995. CBAR provides statistical leadership and expertise to collaborative research networks in HIV and other infectious diseases in the United States and internationally.
The CBAR mission is:
To provide leadership and expertise in the design, data monitoring, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials and observational studies in HIV and other infectious diseases
To develop and implement innovative approaches for the design, monitoring, analysis, and reporting of studies evaluating interventions to treat and prevent infectious diseases
To provide education and training relevant to statistical and epidemiological aspects of infectious diseases research.
CBAR is comprised of more than 100 doctoral- and master’s-level biostatisticians, epidemiologists, and associated professional staff at the forefront of statistical research in clinical trials and observational studies in HIV and other infectious diseases.
CBAR is located in the Longwood Medical Area (LMA) of Boston, a unique and flourishing combination of undergraduate and graduate students, administrative professionals and healthcare professionals. LMA serves as home to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard Medical School, as well as several Harvard affiliated medical, academic and research facilities. As the healthcare epicenter of Boston, LMA is an academically rich environment in which individuals have the ability to collaborate with some of the world’s top-ranking medical and research institutions. The LMA also includes several restaurants, retail venues and museums.
For a map of the Longwood Medical Area, please visit the MASCO website at the following link: http://map.masco.org/.
In March 2024, CBAR celebrated the success of over 30 abstracts accepted at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) with an internal conference “CBAR goes to CROI”. The purpose of this conference was to share information across studies and promote collaboration.