Dr. Jason Farley is a Professor of Nursing at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. He is an infectious disease-trained nurse epidemiologist and a nurse practitioner in the Division of Infectious Diseases at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
His research develops strategies to optimize diagnoses, navigation, linkage, engagement, and retention in care for persons with infectious diseases. Dr. Farley is the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) site leader for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the lead investigator for a number of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 studies in collaboration with the COVID-19 Vaccine Prevention Network (CoVPN).
He is the lead investigator on a cluster randomized trial [R01AI104488] designed to tailor nurse case management for persons with drug-resistant Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in South Africa and a co-investigator on an adaptive, SMART trial [R01 NR016650], which involves an adaptive randomized evaluation of nurse-led HIV treatment retention interventions for female sex workers living with HIV, also in South Africa.
He leads The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing REACH Initiative, a Nursing Center whose mission is to design and improve care processes that improve outcomes for people with infectious disease. The Center works closely with the Baltimore City Health Department to improve HIV prevention, treatment and care services.
