Dr. Tyrel Starks Awarded 5-Year Grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse
Dr. Tyrel Starks, an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and faculty investigator of the Hunter College Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST), has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), totaling $4,701,017, to test an individually-delivered intervention intended to reduce drug use and HIV incidence among HIV negative men in relationships with other men. Doctoral students from the Health Psychology and Clinical Science PhD program at CUNY will be trained to deliver the intervention, and the project will involve many students and interns from Hunter College.