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In honor of World AIDS Day, a coalition of caucuses and student groups from the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health present: HIV/AIDS 25 Years Later: How far have we come? Where are we going?
On Wednesday November 29, 2006, Dr. Nabila El-Bassel will provide a keynote address titled "Women and HIV: Gender-based approaches to HIV/STI prevention." Students, faculty and researchers from the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health will present their current work in the area of HIV/AIDS in the New York Community at an informational reception following the keynote address. Information about a wide range of World AIDS Day events being hosted throughout the New York community on December 1st will be provided at the reception. The event will last from 7pm - 9pm on the Concourse Level of the Columbia University School of Social Work.\
About our Speaker:
Dr. Nabila El-Bassel is a Professor at the Columbia University School of
Social Work and the Director of the Social Intervention Group (SIG), which
was established in 1990 as a multi-disciplinary research center on HIV and
drug abuse. She is also a director of the faculty training program on the
science of HIV prevention for drug-involved women funded by NIDA.
Over the past 16 years, Dr. El-Bassel has been involved in numerous clinical
trials designing and testing HIV prevention strategies for drug-using women,
men, and couples. One of her ground-breaking research areas has been HIV
prevention for at risk African American and Latino couples. She has been a
pioneer in this area of research and introduced a new scientific paradigm in
HIV prevention science.
For the last 6 years, Dr. El-Bassel has studied the intersecting epidemics
of HIV, partner violence, trauma and substance abuse among men and women in
methadone treatment in order to inform the design of gender-based HIV
prevention interventions.
Currently, Dr. El-Bassel is Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on
several NIH-funded R01 and multi-site studies.
For the past three years, Dr. El-Bassel has been conducting research on
gender based HIV prevention in Central Asia and provides HIV training to
research scientists from this region.
Professor El-Bassel has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed
papers. She has published in Science, JAMA, American Journal of Public
Health, and Social Science and Medicine, among others.
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