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Infectious Diseases & Substance Use Disorders

Frederick Altice, MD

Yale infectious diseases researchers investigate the interface of infectious diseases and substance use disorders using implementation science strategies for integrating addiction and HIV treatment into primary care settings.

Current projects include:

  • Ukraine (R01 DA043125) – 36-site Cluster RCT in primary care
  • West Virginia (R01 DA054703) – 20-site stepped wedge trial in primary care
  • Five state implementation trial to scale-up medications for opioid use disorder for HIV prevention – emergency departments, hospitals, addiction treatment settings, prisons, and jails
    • The states participating are West Virginia, Kentucky, Connecticut, Maine, and Vermont
  • Trials of long-acting injectables for HIV prevention (cabotegravir) and for opioid use disorder (buprenorphine)
  • Transition from prison or jail in Malaysia (R01 DA041271) to continue preventative treatment for tuberculosis
  • Combination prevention in persons with HIV – pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) – at syringe services programs in three states
  • Studies examining the contribution of alcohol use disorder on dental disease in men who have sex with men in Peru

Research Team

  • Frederick Lewis Altice, MD, MA

    Director

    Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, Yale Center for Clinical and Community Research, Department of Medicine; Director, HIV in Prisons Program, Infectious Diseases; Director, Community Health Care Van, Intersection of Infectious Diseases and Substance Use Disorders/Addiction Medicine; Academic Icon Professor of Medicine, University of Malaya-Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), Faculty of Medicine , University of Malaya

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  • Gerald Friedland, MD

    Professor Emeritus; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health; Senior Research Scientist, Infectious Diseases

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  • Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH, FIDSA

    Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Core Faculty, Connecticut AIDS Education & Training Center; Associate Director, Office of Global Health, Yale Medicine; Co-Director, Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway, Medicine; South Africa Site Director, Global Health Scholars Program, Yale Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale School of Public Health; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science, Yale School of Public Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Co-Lead, Medicine; Associate Professor on Term, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

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