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An article by SIG Director Dr. Nabila El-Bassel was just published in The Conversation, a rigorous news site featuring articles from the academic research community. 

To honor World Health Day this April 7th, and World Health Worker Week, we asked a few of our researchers what this year's theme #HealthforAll means to them.

Ted Talk, Science Friday Interview, and New Publication Explore.

How can social workers advance a continuum of evidenced-based harm reduction policies and multi-level interventions to address opioid overdose and misuse in key affected communities?

SIG is pleased to honor both the women leading the research studies as well as the women participants.

How do arrests, jail time, and conviction for drug crimes influence retention in a behavioral HIV prevention intervention for PWID and their intimate partners?

Columbia University President Bollinger has just approved Dr. Gilbert's tenure.

New findings from Project Renaissance, a couple-based HIV and overdose prevention for people who inject drugs

ASPIRE aims to examine secondary trauma that providers face in working with their clients. The findings from this research would inform training of the mental health providers.

Members of the Columbia University School of Social Work, the Social Intervention Group, and the ASPIRE project will be leading a symposium at the 22nd annual Society for Social Work and Research conference on Friday, January 12th.

In 2018, we look forward to working with our communities here in New York City at Columbia University, and globally!

It was a full house for our World AIDS Day event this year, with four leading scientists presenting on the topic "Political, Social, and Structural Forces Driving the HIV Epidemic."

Though tremendous progress has been made toward ending the HIV epidemic, we still have a very long way to go to achieve the UNAIDS goal of ending the epidemic by 2030.

What if the social and behavioral research being conducted causes harm to the very people the research is trying to help?

Dr. Hunt shared SIG's work on couples-based HIV/STI prevention and mediators impacting implementation of SIG's evidence-based intervention CONNECT HIP.