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NaUKMA will implement its fourth project under the funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 October 2024 07:58
In collaboration with principal investigators from the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and experts of the International Charitable Foundation “Alliance for Public Health”, NaUKMA will contribute to the epidemiologic assessment of substance use and the development of approaches to prevent it among people recently displaced by the war in Ukraine.
This innovative project “Substance Use Prevention for Recently Displaced Adults (SUPRA)” will combine epidemiology and intervention evaluation under war circumstances in the framework of the subaward with Boston Medical Center under the financial support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And this will be the 4th big project implemented or co-implemented by NaUKMA under the funding of the National Institutes of Health.
Based on strong expertise at the community level, in particular extensive work with survivors of the military conflict in Ukraine, the NaUKMA Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support will take an active part in development and evaluation of interventions at the community level in Ukraine and will help with the integration and adaptation of interventions to the current context of Ukraine. Internationally renowned mental health expert Dr. Sergiy Bogdanov, the Head of the NaUKMA Center for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, who will represent NaUKMA in this project, in cooperation with Boston University Associate Professor Karsten Lunze and research scientist from Harvard University Dr. Kimberly Hook, will also help with the training of interventionists and will contribute to the preparation of manuscripts based on the results of the study. Junior NaUKMA researchers will also be involved in the work on manuscripts. Dr. Bogdanov has strong experience and successfully implemented projects in the field in cooperation with Johns Hopkins University (with funding from USAID), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (with funding from Wellcome Trust), as well as experience of being a mentor within the project of the National Institutes of Health under the funding of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) dedicated to the same issue.
“Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number 1R61DA059856-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”