CDUHR Research Forum: Research with Puerto Ricans Who Use Drugs in Puerto Rico and in New York City

On behalf of CDUHR, please join us for a special morning of presentations focused on current research among Puerto Ricans who use drugs in Puerto Rico and NYC. Sherry Deren will initiate the day with a few words.

Scheduled presentations:

• Colonialism in times of climate change: Tales of HIV prevention and care among Puerto Ricans
  Carlos Rodríguez-Díaz, PhD, MPHE, MCHES - The George Washington University
• Crises Mode: Drug use in Puerto Rico
  Yesenia Aponte-Meléndez - PhD Candidate and Co-founder of a Puerto Rico-based syringe services program "El Punto en la Montaña"
• Designing Family Based Sexual Risk Reduction interventions for Puerto Rican and Dominican Youth
  Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, RN, LCSW, ANP-BC, AAHIVS - NYU Silver School of Social Work
• Puerto Rican PWID in the Bronx: The Crises that Persist
  Camila Gelpí-Acosta, PhD - LaGuardia Community College, CUNY