Cross-Cluster Seminar with Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson

The USC School of Social Work’s Behavior, Health, and Society research cluster and the USC Immigrant Health Initiative proudly present a colloquium featuring presentations from Drs. Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson, two distinguished researchers from the University of California, San Diego.

Strathdee is associate dean of global health sciences and director of the UC San Diego Global Health Initiative. She is a Harold Simon Professor and chief of the Division of Global Public Health in the Department of Medicine, where she leads a research and training program focusing on infectious diseases of global health importance. She is also the co-director of the International Core of the UCSD Center for AIDS Research. She will give a presentation titled "Studies of HIV and related infections among substance users: Highlights from a research and training program on the Mexico-U.S. border."

Patterson is professor of psychiatry at UCSD. He has been the principal investigator on several NIH-funded grants to test the efficacy of theory-based behavioral interventions to increase condom use and decrease HIV and STI transmission risk in various populations, including methamphetamine users in the United States, female sex workers in Mexico and India, and male clients of female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico. He has collaborated extensively with Strathdee in her studies of emerging infectious disease patterns along the U.S.-Mexico border, with emphases on the overlap between drug use, sex work and infection with HIV and other STIs. He will give a presentation titled "Development to implementation: Interventions to reduce HIV risk among high risk populations in Mexico."

A light lunch will be provided.