International AIDS Society, NIDA Select New Postdoctoral Fellows
August 25, 2011
The International AIDS Society (IAS) and NIDA have awarded postdoctoral fellowships to scientists from China and Indonesia. IAS and NIDA cosponsor the fellowships, which provide 18 months of training with an expert in drug abuse-related HIV to advance scientific understanding of the linkages between drug use and HIV while fostering multinational research. The 2011 fellows are:
- Former NIDA INVEST Fellow Huaihui Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatrist at the Shanghai Yangpu District Mental Health Center, China, will carry out a brief assessment and a modular, education-based intervention for methadone maintenance treatment patients who are at risk of HIV infection in Shanghai, China. Her INVEST fellowship mentor, Richard S. Schottenfeld, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine, also will serve as her mentor for the IAS/NIDA Fellowship.
- Working with Scott Burris, J.D., Temple University School of Law, Jinmei Meng, Ph.D., of China will work on HIV, drug use, and the law in China, investigating the penalization of drug use and HIV risks of injecting drug users.
- Iko Safika, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Unit in Indonesia, will study depression, drug use, and high-risk sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men and transgendered individuals in Jakarta, Indonesia. Timothy Johnson, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), will be her mentor. Dr. Safika received her doctorate from UIC as a Fogarty International Center AIDS International Training and Research Program trainee.
IAS-NIDA Fellowship Award recipients, left to right: NIDA Director Nora Volkow, Huaihui Zhang, Iko Safika, IAS President Elly Katabira, Jinmei Meng, Scott Burris, and Richard Schottenfeld. ©IAS/Marcus Rose/Worker's Photos
Important Dates
NIDA International Forum
June 14–17, 2013
Online Registration Deadline:
May 6, 2013
FELLOWSHIPS
IAS/NIDA Fellowships
Application Deadline:
February 10, 2013
NIDA International Program Fellowships
Application Deadline:
April 1, 2013
Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars
Application Deadlines: Vary
GRANTS
Brain Disorders in the Developing World: Research Across the Lifespan
(Non-AIDS)
R01 PAR-11-030and R21 PAR-11-031
Application deadline:
February 14, 2013
MEETINGS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
February 14–18, 2013
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
International Drug Abuse Research Society (IDARS)
April 15–19, 2013
Mexico City, Mexico
2013 International Conference on Global Health: Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse and HIV
April 17–19, 2013
Taipei, Taiwan
Yih-Ing Hser, Ph.D.