INTRODUCTION
Jeffrey Wickersham is assistant professor of medicine in the section of infectious diseases. He is the sole and hence principal investigator on a 5-year grant from the national institute on drug abuse examining combination biomedical and behavioral approaches to HIV prevention transgender women in Malaysia.
SUMMARY
Jeffrey Wickersham is an Associate Research Scientist in Infectious Diseases at Yale School of Medicine.. Wickersham’s research focuses on secondary HIV prevention among persons with substance use disorders in criminal justice settings. He seeks to understand the effect of gender differences in substance use etiology, drug and sex risk taking behavior, and to develop interventions sensitive to gender-specific needs to improve HIV and substance dependence outcomes.
Publications
Training in Drug Abuse & HIV Prevention for Female & Transgender Sex Workers
Azbel, L., Wickersham, J. A., et al. (2013). Burden of infectious diseases, substance use disorders, and mental illness among Ukrainian prisoners transitioning to the community. PLoS One, 8(3), e59643.
Wickersham, J. A., et al. (2013). Implementing methadone maintenance treatment in prisons in Malaysia. Bull World Health Organ, 91(2), 124-129.