CCEB Seminar- Matthew Mimiaga, ScD, MPH

"Enhancing Global HIV Prevention Science Among Marginalized and Disenfranchised Groups Using a Syndemics Framework" Matthew Mimiaga, ScD, MPH Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Epidemiology Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior The Fenway Institute, Brown University   Dr. Mimiaga completed the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program in Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; he received a Doctorate of Science from Harvard University, a Master of Public Health from Boston University, and a Master of Arts from Brown University (ad eundem). Prior to joining Brown in 2015, Dr. Mimiaga was Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mimiaga's research program focuses on interventions to decrease sexual risk in HIV primary and secondary prevention; biobehavioral interventions to enhance antiretroviral medication uptake and adherence for both HIV treatment and prevention; psychosocial treatment interventions for stimulant use disorder and concurrent HIV risk; infectious disease and psychiatric epidemiology; and global health research within 11 resource constrained countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. His funded studies involve a variety of populations at risk for HIV infection, including marginalized and disenfranchised groups with vulnerabilities to health disparities or stigmatized conditions, including sexual and gender minorities, racial/ethnic minorities, and other groups that experience social, political, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage.