The NIDA Special Populations Office (SPO) aims are to:
SPO coordinates multiple activities across NIDA’s scientific programs, centers and divisions with assistance from the NIDA SPO/Lead Program Coordinating (LPC) Task Force comprised of the SPO staff, and NIDA program and review staff. The SPO/LPC Task Force has a major role in shaping, coordinating and implementing research training and promoting and conducting health disparities research. In addition, LPC staff from the Task Force work closely with the NIDA’s External Research and Scholars Workgroups, Network and Other Committees to meet NIDA’s diversity and health disparities research and training goals.
2012 Schedule
HIV and Drug Abuse from Lab to Clinic
Benjamin Chen, M.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
NIDA Conference Room, 3103
NSC, 6001 Executive Boulevard
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Translating Basic Research to Clinical Practice
Cynthia Crawford, Ph.D., M.A.
California State at San Bernardino
Conference Room A1/A2
NSC, 6001 Executive Boulevard
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Co-sponsored by DESPR
Methodological Challenges of Studying Minorities
C. Hendricks Brown, Ph.D.
University of Miami
Conference Room A1/A2
NSC, 6001 Executive Boulevard
2:00 - 3:00 PM
Co-sponsored by DESPR HIV/AIDS Workgroup
Drug Abuse in Minority Communities
Steffanie Strathdee, Ph.D.
University of California San Diego
NIDA Conference Room, 3103
NSC, 6001 Executive Boulevard
2:00 - 3:00 PM
For more information - Contact: Flair Lindsey
NIDA SPO Diversity Supplement Workshop
October 4-5, 2012
NSC Building
6001 Executive Boulevard
Bethesda, MD 20892-9581
For more information - Contact: Pamela Goodlow
Addressing Health Disparities through Neuroscience Seminar Series hosted by:
NIAAA, NICHD, NIDA, NIMH, and NINDS
2012 Series: April 12 (see below); Other Events TBA
NIDA established the Researchers and Scholars Work Groups for the purpose of providing guidance and recommendations to NIDA on drug abuse and addiction research development and training needs within four major diverse populations. Each Work Group and Network is currently comprised of established researchers and scholars with expertise in drug abuse and addiction and health concerns of the particular population it represents.
SPO staff and Lead Program Coordinators work closely with the SPO Director, NIDA staff, the Researchers and Scholars Work Groups, other NIDA groups/committees and the extramural community to identify research training opportunities and mentoring, as well as research gaps and opportunities in health disparities research. The primary groups and committees include:
Special Populations Office
National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH
6001 Executive Boulevard
Room 3105, MSC 9567
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9567
Telephone: 301-443-0441
Fax: 301-480-8179