A submission by Yale Child Study Center Assistant Professor Uche Aneni and team members Deepa Camenga and Mahnoosh Sharifi of the Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and Benjamin Oldfield at Fair Haven Community Health Care, has been selected as one of the winners of the 2023 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Substance Use Prevention Services in Primary Care Challenge.
The title of the winning submission is Making Substance Use Prevention as Easy as Vaccination! Leveraging Machine Learning to Deliver Personalized Substance Use Prevention Interventions in Primary Care.
NIDA, one of the components of the National Institutes of Health announced the challenge in February 2023, seeking “creative, visionary, and actionable plans to implement substance use prevention interventions in primary care” as noted on the challenge website. Winners receive prizes of up to $25,000, and NIDA encourages the winners to utilize the awards to support the implementation of substance use prevention services in those primary care practices.