Vision

The Hope Clinic offers an innovative, community based, and scientifically grounded clinical trials program to address the need for safe and effective vaccines to prevent major global infectious diseases. Volunteers can participate in a variety of research studies to help understand the human immune system, find a safe and effective vaccine for HIV/AIDS, and prevent other important infectious diseases.

The Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Center is one of the vaccine clinical trial sites of the Emory School of Medicine. We work closely with the Emory Center for AIDS Research and other local and national research organizations to understand immune system responses to vaccines and to help bring safe and effective vaccines into clinical practice.

We create a bridge between laboratory investigation and society, in which basic science is linked to community concerns. The clinic is recognized for its excellent, innovative prevention studies, its high impact public health agenda, and its active strategic partnerships and service to the community.

Values

We have built a safe, respectful, volunteer-centered clinical environment for active investigation of vaccines and prevention technology that adheres to the highest ethical standards in clinical research.

We believe in community participation and their active involvement in research. Through collaboration with our Community Advisory Board, we solicit input from a wide variety of community groups and individuals, to ensure that our research is responsive to community needs and concerns.

We seek to educate the community at large and to increase awareness about the need to conduct vaccine research and clinical trials as a strategy to improve the wellbeing of humans around the world.

We strive to include in our research programs historically underrepresented minority populations as their active involvement is critical in addressing healthcare concerns in their communities.