Emerging Research Interests

DESPR supports the full range of drug abuse epidemiology, prevention, and services research. Within these domains, current areas of emphasis include, but are not limited to the following:

Division's Major Goals:

• Promote the development of new theoretical approaches to epidemiology, services and prevention research
  Program Contact: Meyer Glantz


• Determine how intrapersonal and environmental factors interact with each other and with genetic factors, across development in the course of drug abuse/addictions
  Program Contact: Kay Wanke

Epidemiology Research Branch (ERB) Goals:

• Maximize Return on Investments by promoting secondary data analysis
  Program Contact: Marsha Lopez


• Rapid assessment of emerging trends
  Program Contact: Moira O'Brien


• Expand Translation Research to address:
  
  • Interactions of intrapersonal and environmental factors, across development
    Program Contact: Jessica Campbell Chambers
  
  
  • Translation of epidemiology research into clinical interventions
    Program Contact: Kathy Etz
  
  
  • Linking dynamics of HIV/AIDS transmission and disease progression to prevention intervention and services
    Program Contacts: Elizabeth Lambert, Peter Hartsock
  
  

Services Research Branch (SRB) Goals:

• Improve the quality of care, through research on:
  
  • Financing
    Program Contact: Sarah Duffy
  
  
  • Service Technology
    Program Contact: Dionne Jones
  
  
  • Service Workforce
    Program Contact: Tom Hilton
  
  

Prevention Research Branch (PRB) Goals:

• Develop and maximize use of high quality preventive interventions in real world settings through research on:
  
  • Individual risk and protective factors in interaction with the social context over time
    Program Contacts: Aria Crump, Eve Reider
  
  
  • Drug abuse prevention as HIV prevention
    Program Contacts: Richard Jenkins, Eve Reider
  
  
  • Environmental strategies for reducing the incidence and prevalence of drug abuse
    Program Contacts: Augusto (Augie) Diana, Elizabeth Ginexi
  
  
  • Science to practice that promotes community-based participation
    Program Contacts: Shakeh Kaftarian, Belinda Sims