Areas of Interest

Division on Substance Use Disorders

  • Human Behavioral Pharmacology
    • Opioids
    • Cannabinoids
       
  • Basic science
    • Non-human primate behavioral models of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), alcohol, and opioid use 
       
  • Biomarkers of drug use and drug-related decision making
    • fMRI – functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    • TMS – Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
    • fNIR – functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
       
  • Experimental models of central sensitization and pain
     
  • Treatments for Substance Use Disorders 
    • Opioid Use Disorder
    • Cannabis Use Disorder
    • Alcohol Use Disorder
    • Cocaine Use Disorder
       
  • Opioid overdose
    • Patient education
    • Consequences (i.e. cognitive decline) 
       
  • Comorbidities between substance use disorders and mental health diagnoses
     
  • Implementation science
    • Telehealth
    • Community work
    • Clinical support for Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)
    • Efficacy and effectiveness trials
    • Development and testing of individual and program level interventions for substance use disorders, co-occurring mental health disorders, and HIV prevention and treatment
    • Large-scale training and technical assistance initiatives to disseminate evidence-based practices
       
  • Data Science in Substance Use Disorders
    • Harmonization, casual inference, methodology development
    • Wearable devices and densely sampled human substance use disorder behavioral data
    • Predictive modeling of substance use disorder clinical trial outcomes
    • Electronic health records (EHR) and biomedical informatics
    • Insurance claims and other regulatory datasets
       
  • Disparity and Improving Equity in Substance Use Disorder treatment across race/ethnicity/gender
    • Culturally tailored psychotherapeutic intervention for transgender and gender non-binary individuals
       
  • Research Training
    • NIDA T32 in Addiction Psychiatry
    • NIDA R25, Translational Research Training on Addictions for Racial/Ethnic Minorities
       
  • Clinical Trials Network

 

Social Intervention Group

  • Adolescent Responses to COVID-19
     
  • Advancing Solutions in Policy, Implementation, Research, and Engagement for Refugees
     
  • Building Social Service Workforce Competencies in Europe and Central Asia
     
  • Researching reoccurring bacterial vaginosis (BV)
     
  • HIV/STI Awareness and Prevention Education, Implementation and Dissemination
    • Sexual and gender minorities
    • People who inject drugs
    • MSM
    • Transgender couples
    • HIV discordant couples
    • High-risk women/female sex workers in Kazakhstan
    • Male and female drug-involved offenders in NYC
       
  • Criminal Justice
    • Societal impacts of incarceration
       
  • Advancing global health and mental health
     
  • HEALing Communities Study
    • Aimed to reduce opioid overdose deaths
       
  • Urban-based violence
    • Approaches to detection, prevention and mitigation on social media
    • Intimate partner violence
       
  • Identifying Novel Behavioral Targets for Improving Sleep
     
  • Couple-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence
     
  • Developing social work field in Uzbekistan

 

The Irving Institute

  • The Opioid Crisis Response
     
  • Community Engagement Core Resource
     
  • Implementation Science Initiative