District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR)

About Us

The mission of the DC CFAR is to expand our multi-institutional effort to support research aimed at ending the HIV epidemic in Washington, DC and beyond in partnership with local government and community.

Meet Our Investigators

Natella Rakhmanina, MD, AAHIVS, PhD, Director of HIV Services, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's National Health System

New NIH CFAR Ending the HIV Epidemic Supplement Recipient: Sarah Henn, MD, MPH

Pilot Award Recipient: Nicole Angotti, PhD

Natella Rakhmanina, MD, AAHIVS, PhD, Director of HIV Services, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's National Health System

Dr. Natella Rakhmanina’s career has taken her from Moscow, Russia to Little Rock, Arkansas to Columbus, Ohio to Washington, DC. She has studied pediatrics, toxicology, pharmacology and pharmacogenetics, but the common threads connecting her work has been a passion for the health of children and adolescents and HIV research. This passion has been evident in her pursuit to optimize HIV treatment for pediatric patients for nearly two decades in her clinical research, and respected voice for HIV pharmacology and care for children and adolescents. Today, Dr.

New NIH CFAR Ending the HIV Epidemic Supplement Recipient: Sarah Henn, MD, MPH

Sarah Henn, MD, MPH (Whitman-Walker Health) has been awarded an NIH CFAR Administrative supplement titled, “A City-Wide Approach to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Scale-Up in Multiple High-Risk Communities in Washington D.C.” This project will address the “Prevent” pillar of the nationwide Ending the HIV (EHE) initiative.