Dr. Eknath Naik is the Director of the USF-India Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Training, better known as CHART-India. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine and the Department of Global Health at the University of South Florida. He is one of the core faculty of the AIDS Education Training Center (AETC) for the USF Center for HIV Education. He is board certified in Preventive and Social Medicine from India and has a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Naik's areas of expertise are in HIV/TB care and support, surveillance, epidemiology, computer applications, and research methodology. He has conducted several HIV training programs in India and has experience working in both urban and rural India. Dr. Naik has several research publications, book chapters and presentations at both antional and international meetings, and also serves on the advisory boards of HIV related organizations both in USA and in India.

Dr. Naik's areas of expertise are in HIV/TB care and support, surveillance, epidemiology, and research methodology.

HIV/AIDS Adherence in India; 2004-2006
Funding Agency: USF College of Public Health
Role: PI

Closed/Completed Research Support

HIV/STI Training of Physicians and Health Professionals from Maharashtra, India 2004-2005
Funding Agency: Government of Maharashtra, India, through World Bank
Role PI

A Comparative Study of Socio-economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Caribbean Nations. 2002-2003
Funding Agency: Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
Role PI

Training and establishment of Perinatal HIV Database in Mumbai, India 2002-2003
Funding Agency: Scientific award, Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Foundation, California.
Role: PI

Role of Cable television in HIV prevention in India 2002
Funding Agency: USF Research and Creative Scholarship Grant Program.
Role: PI

CHART-India Center 2000-2005
Funding Agency: TGH Foundation
Role: PI

UAB AITRP: Adolescent Risk Reduction Training in India 2000-2002
Funding Agency: AIDS International training and research program, NIH, Bethedsa
Role Co-PI; PI: Sten Vermund

Sinnott JT, Naik E, Larkin JA, Houston SH, Degryse A, Somboonwit C, Poklepovic A, Irvine L. Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, in: APIC Text of Infection Control and Epidemiology 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: Association for Professionals in Infection Control, Chapter 90 pp.90-1-90-11, 2005.

Pujari S, Dravid A, Naik E, et. al. Lipodystrophy and dyslipidemia among patients taking first line, World Health Organization (WHO)- recommended highly active antiretroviral therapy regimes in western India. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2005 Jun 1;39(2):199-202

Naik E, Karpur A, Taylor R, Ramaswami B, Ramachandra, et al. Rural Indian tribal communities: an emerging high-risk group for HIV/AIDS. BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2005 Feb 21;5(1):1

Pujari S, Patel A, Naik E, Patel K, Dravid A et.al. Effectiveness of generic fixed dose combinations of HAART for treatment of HIV infection in India. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2004;37:1566-1569.

Wills TS, Nadler JP, Somboonwit C, et al. Anemia prevalence and associated risk factors in a single-center ambulatory HIV clinical cohort. AIDS Read. 2004 Jun;14(6):305-10, 313-5.

Eknath Naik, Susan LeBlanc, Jianming Tang, Lisa Jacobson, Richard Kaslow, The complexity of HLA Class II (DRB1, DQB1, DMA, DMB) associations with disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infections among HIV-1 seropositive subjects. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2003 Jun 1;33(2):140-5.

Salihu HM, Naik EG, Tchuinguem G, Bosny JP, Dagne G. Weekly chloroquine prophylaxis and the effect on maternal haemoglobin status at delivery. Trop Med Int Health. 2002 Jan;7(1):29-34

Eknath Naik and Amanda Persad. HIV/AIDS in New Millennium: The Role of Mass Media for HIV/AIDS education in India. The Indian Practitioner. March 2001;54(3):199-202

Eknath Naik, Susan LeBlanc, Jianming Tang, Lisa Jacobson, Richard A Kaslow. Combinations of HLA-DMA, DMB, DRB1 and DQB1 Polymorphisms Associated with Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection HIV-1 Seropositive Caucasians. Clin Exp Immun.

Eknath Naik and Amanda Persad. HIV/AIDS in New Millennium: The Role of Mass Media for HIV/AIDS education in India. The Indian Practitioner. March 2001;54(3):199-202

Salihu HM and Naik Eknath. Are Women Smokers more susceptible to Tobacco Carcinogens than men smokers? Florida Journal of Public Health. 2001,13(1&2):9-11.

Salihu HM, Naik E, O'Brien WF, Dagne G, Ratard R, Mason T. Tuberculosis morbidity in the State of North Carolina: trends across two decades, 1980-1999. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2001, 7(3):570-574.

Tang J, Naik, E, Costello C, Karita E, Rivers C, Allen S, and Kaslow RA. Characteristics of HLA class I and class II polymorphisms in Rwandan women. Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics, 2000, 17:185-198.

Susan B. Leblanc, Eknath Naik and Richard A. Kaslow. Association of DRB1*15011, but not DQB1*0503, with disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex in North American AIDS patients. Tissue antigen 2000, 55, 17-23

Eknath Naik and Richard Kaslow. HLA associations with Mycobacterium avium complex infection in HIV-1 positive subjects. Dissertation accepted by University of Alabama at Birmingham for Doctor of Philosophy degree in Epidemiology, 1999.

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