This workshop will cover the NIH peer review process and provide tips on best practices for putting together a grant application. In addition, the presenters will conduct mock peer reviews of NIH proposals by two early stage investigators.
Speaker Info
Marya Gwadz is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Dean for Research and Professor at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. Dr. Gwadz is an Associate Director of the Transdisciplinary Research Methods Core of the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, in which she has played a leadership role since 2005. The main focus of Dr. Gwadz’s research is the development and evaluation of potent, innovative, multi-level culturally salient interventions to address racial/ethnic and socio-economic disparities in HIV. Her work with populations in high-risk contexts spans over two decades and has focused on sub-groups such as runaway/homeless youth, young men who have sex with men (YMSM), heterosexuals at high risk for HIV, substance-using populations, low socioeconomic status populations, and persons of color living with HIV/AIDS.
Lloyd Goldsamt is a Senior Research Scientist at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and an adjunct professor in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He has conducted NIH-funded research and community-based evaluations for the past 20 years. His primary research area is HIV and STI prevention among high-risk youth populations, including men who have sex with men, male sex workers and injection drug users. Dr. Goldsamt has conducted training and program evaluations locally and nationally, focusing on drug courts and community-based organizations working to prevent HIV and drug abuse. He is currently the Evaluator for the Brooklyn Treatment Court and an evaluator on an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention project developing nationwide Juvenile Drug Court Learning Collaboratives. Dr. Goldsamt is also on the faculty of the Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute and a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State.