Public Health Week: A Community Based Participatory Research Approach to Reduce HIV Risk among Heroin and Crack Users on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 4:00pm

Location: 

Williams Hall Roemmele Global Cmmons
“A Community Based Participatory Research Approach to Reduce HIV Risk among Heroin and Crack Users on the U.S.-Mexico Border” 
Julia Lechuga 
Assistant Professor of Education and Health, Medicine and Society
 
The presentation will highlight factors at multiple levels (structural, inter-personal, and individual) that place substance users, living on the U.S.-Mexico border, at heightened risk of contracting HIV and the Community Based Participatory Research Approach undertaken to curtail such risk. 

 

Department: 

Health, Medicine and Society