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In a recent article in Bustle, Dr. El-Bassel draws from her deep knowledge of couple-based therapies to describe how women in abusive relationships face unique challenges in the opioid crisis.
SIG is now hiring for two positions for the new HEAL grant: Associate Research Scientist and Study Administrative Coordinator. Read more and apply below.
SIG Director Nabila El-Bassel discusses the $86 million grant that Columbia's School of Social Work received from the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the work that she and her team from Columbia will be doing to reduce opioid deaths in New York State.
Columbia’s School of Social Work, along with partner universities, will work in 15 counties across New York State to address the opioid epidemic. The $86 million grant was awarded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to reduce opioid deaths in New York State.
Investigators based in the U.S., Jordan, and Turkey will present findings from the ASPIRE Project's first two studies, Women ASPIRE and Providers ASPIRE, on the health concerns of Syrian refugees.
A new study from Columbia University’s Social Intervention Group confirms the success of couple-based intervention in reducing risky sexual behaviors in criminal justice settings: Effectiveness of a Couple-Based HIV and STI Prevention Intervention for Men in Community Supervision Programs and Their Female Sexual Partners A Randomized Clinical Trial
Dr. Nabila El-Bassel received Columbia University’s highest academic honor when appointed to the rank of University Professor. Dr. El-Bassel is the first School of Social Work faculty member to be named a University Professor.
The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote an in-depth feature about our HIV Intervention Science Training Program for Underrepresented Scholars (HISTP).
Dr. Nabila El-Bassel explores how violence impacts women in the opioid epidemic by sharing the voices of women she and her research teams have interviewed over the past three decades in her latest article.
The Global Health Research Center of Central Asia was awarded funding from the Elton John AIDS Foundation to launch “BeOnline” to provide free HIV self-tests and increase HIV and STI risks awareness among men who have sex with men and the trans* communities.
Peers have always played an important role in disseminating health tips that, when adopted, could enhance the quality of life, and -- beyond boosting morale of participants -- even save lives. One project in Kazakhstan plans to do just that.
On World AIDS Day 2018, “Know Your Status” really is a matter of status -- particularly among this group of individuals.
The Social Intervention Group (SIG) -- Dr. Nabila El-Bassel and her colleagues Drs. Louisa Gilbert, Elwin Wu and Tim Hunt -- are excited to announce the creation of a cross-university multidisciplinary collaboration to bring different perspectives and approaches to address the opioid epidemic. Dr. El-Bassel, a leading expert on the opioid epidemic, recently assembled this group of scientists from different disciplines to address the opioid epidemic in New York State, which has the second highest increase in heroin and prescription opioid-related deaths.