Current HIV/AIDS Research Activities:

• Evaluating changes in syringe exchange policies and their impact on HIV prevention efforts for injection drug users
• Examining the impact of structural factors (such as housing availability) on access to services among injection drug users
• Examining linkage to and retention in HIV care among individuals returning to communities following incarceration
• Examining the sociocultural trajectories of substance use and addiction and how these factors increase HIV risk

Current HIV/AIDS Educational Activities:

• Instructor, PubH 6559: Interdisciplinary Approaches to HIV Prevention

Current HIV/AIDS Service Activities:

• Ad Hoc Racial and Ethnic Minority Committee, Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health
• Scientific Advisory Board for the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco.
• Syringe Access Working Group, District of Columbia