In this second workshop, Drs. Sherry Deren and Ellen Benoit will focus on developing specific aims, significance, and innovation for an NIH application.
The CDUHR Grant Development Workshop Series is intended to support investigators with the submission of their first NIH grant proposal. The workshops are open to all interested individuals at the four affiliated institutions. The six workshops are sequential in regard to topics covered and the development of an NIH application. Attendance at the complete series is recommended for optimal learning and application of the workshop content. However, for individuals unable to commit to the full series, each workshop will be offered as a freestanding session.
Sherry Deren, PhD, is the co-director of the NIDA-funded P30 Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR). Dr. Deren is a social psychologist, and has been Principal Investigator for many NIDA-funded research projects related to drug use and HIV. Her recent research interests have included multi-disciplinary studies on the impact of drug injection on immune activation, and multi-level influences on HIV risk behaviors among Puerto Rican drug users in Puerto Rico and NYC. Dr. Deren is a co-founder and steering committee member of the New York HIV Research Centers Consortium, comprised of over 25 HIV Research Centers in the New York tri-State area, and serves on the scientific advisory boards of several HIV-related research centers. She has served on numerous NIH research review committees, and is an author of over 150 articles related to HIV/AIDS among high-risk substance users.
Ellen Benoit, PhD, is a Principal Investigator and Director of the Center for Community and Health Disparities Research at the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. She is currently Principal Investigator with Dr. Liliane C. Windsor of the University of Illinois on a study funded by NIMHD that employs community-based participatory research methods to test an intervention aimed at reducing substance use among men returning to Newark, NJ communities after incarceration. With Dr. Martin J. Downing, Jr., of Public Health Solutions, Dr. Benoit is a PI on an NICHD-funded study investigating the impact of childhood abuse on risk behavior among Black and Latino gay and bisexual men. Dr. Benoit is also a PI with Dr. Eric Schrimshaw of Columbia University on an NIMHD-funded examination of sexual scripts and socialization in a diverse sample of young gay and bisexual men. Dr. Benoit’s previous independent work focused on HIV risk among substance-using Black men who have sex with men and women (MSMW) but do not identify as gay or homosexual and do not disclose their same-sex activity to their female partners. Before joining NDRI, Dr. Benoit taught sociology at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. She was also a postdoctoral research fellow in the Behavioral Sciences Training Program in Drug Abuse Research at PHS/NDRI from 2001 to 2003.
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