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The Baker Center Receives National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Grant to Pursue Drug Prevention Strategies for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Youth

Principal Investigator: Dr. Kelsie Okamura

https://www.bakercenter.org/IRD

https://piko.jabsom.hawaii.edu/dr-kelsie-okamura-piko-pilot-year-1-awardee-receives-the-nih-directors-pioneer-dp1-award-from-the-nih-institute-on-drug-abuse-nida/

 

 

 

Achieving Equity in Patient Outcome Reporting for Timely Assessments of Life with HIV and Substance Use (ePORTAL HIV-S)

Principal Investigators: Drs. Jessica Ridgway and Neda Laiteerapong

https://www.thirdcoastcfar.org/2023/12/14/hiv-substance-use-disorder-ridgway-laiteerapong-nida-grant/

 

 

 

Kipiyecipakiciipe "coming home": Establishing clinical cultural neuroscience as a tool for understanding the role of traditional cultural engagement in mitigating substance misuse and disorder

Principal Investigator: Dr. Evan White

https://www.laureateinstitute.org/news/dr-evan-j-white-receives-nih-directors-pioneer-award-for-innovative-research-collaboration-with-the-shawnee-tribe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Integrating Community Based Participatory Research and Machine Learning Methods to Predict Youth Substance Use Disorders for Urban Cities in New Jersey

Principal Investigator: Dr. Ijeoma Opara

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/opara-receives-dollar35-million-grant-to-curb-urban-drug-use-involve-youth-in-research/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A mixed-method study to investigate the impact of neighborhood-level structural racism on neurocognition and substance use in adolescence

Principal Investigator: Dr. Marybel Gonzalez

https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pressreleaselisting/medtips-dec-2023

 

 

 

 

 

Racial Equity in Systems to Treat Opioid Use Disorder for Everyone (RESTORE): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sabrina Smiley

https://www.sdsu.edu/news/2023/10/sdsu-researcher-awarded-5-2-million-grant-tackle-racial-inequity-opioid-treatment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding Health Inequities at the Intersection of the HIV and substance use epidemics across racial/ethnic and other underserved populations

Principal Investigators: Drs. Heidi Crane, Rob Fredericksen, and Andrew Hahn

  https://mednews.uw.edu/news/health-inequities/HIV-substance-use