TWO NEW GRANTS TO STUDY RISK-REDUCTION AND RELATED ISSUES
Sep 21, 2007
Scyatta A. Wallace, Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine and community health and member of the HIV Center for Women and Children at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, has received two grants addressing critical community health issues.
She has been awarded a four-year grant funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. The $961,049 award will elicit attitudes about HIV testing among young adult heterosexual Black men. In addition, the study will develop cultural and gender specific health education materials to promote HIV testing among this segment of the population.
Dr. Wallace also received a grant funded by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse in the amount of $117,000 that will test a conceptual model examining the relationship of neighborhood factors to substance use and sexual risk behaviors among African-American youth.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center is the only academic medical center in Brooklyn, Staten Island, or Queens, comprising Colleges of Medicine, Health Related Professions, and Nursing; a School of Graduate Studies; a Public Health Degree Program; the 376-bed University Hospital of Brooklyn; and a growing Advanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology Incubator.
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.