Nursing Professor Receives NIH Grant to Help Study Latino HIV Risk in New Orleans

      Michele Shedlin, a medical anthropologist and professor in NYU’s College of Nursing, and Patricia Kissenger, professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, recently received a $275,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their study “The Epidemiology of Drugs and HIV Sex Risk Among Latino Migrants.” The goal of this research is to identify and explore factors affecting drug use and drug-related HIV sexual risk behaviors among Latino migrant workers who have migrated to New Orleans.
       In 2007, the Tulane research team assembled a cohort of 125 newly arrived Latino migrant workers and followed them every three months to examine HIV risk. A multi-disciplinary team from Tulane and NYU will employ mixed methods and continue to follow the cohort for a total of 30 months of evaluation in all.