Broadening Substance Use(r) Research and Intervention Efforts to Address Context

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Sherry Deren

Sherry Deren, Ph.D., US, is the Director of the NIDA-funded P30 Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), located at the New York University (NYU) College of Nursing. Dr. Deren is a social psychologist, and has been Principal Investigator for many NIDA-funded research projects related to drug use and HIV. Her recent research interests have focused on multilevel influences on HIV risk behaviors among Puerto Rican drug users in Puerto Rico and NYC. CDUHR, focused on the socio-behavioral study of drug use-HIV/AIDS, has been funded since 1998, and provides a research infrastructure to support over 60 research projects, at NYU and affiliated institutions, related to the Center's theme: “Discovery to Implementation & Back: Research Translation for the HIV/Substance Use Epidemic.”

Susan Tross

Susan Tross, Ph.D., US, is a psychologist with expertise in developing, delivering, and evaluating intervention programs in substance abuse, HIV risk behavior, and psychological adaptation to HIV. Her research has focused on work with poor, disenfranchised people, at highest risk for HIV or living with HIV, and proceeded directly from her close partnerships with community collaborators, in agencies that serve them. She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. There, she is Co-Director of the Intervention Science Core of the NIMH-supported HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and in the Greater New York Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN).