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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:
Prevention Research Branch (PRB) Goals:
- Develop and maximize use of high quality preventive interventions in real world settings through research on:
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