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Robert Heimer to Study AIDS Epidemic in Russia as a 2009 Fulbright Scholar
Robert Heimer, a professor in the division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases in the Yale School of Public Health, will work and lecture in Russia with support from a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship. Designed to promote “mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world,” the Fulbright Scholarship program provides grants to approximately 1,000 U.S. scholars annually to travel overseas and an equal number of international scholars to travel to the United States—Fulbright Scholars take part in a variety of educational activities—from conducting research to lecturing and teaching. Heimer will conduct a research project titled “Delphi analysis to explore the origins of the HIV epidemic among Russian drug users,” at Kazan State Medical University in Kazan, Russia, from March through July. The Yale scientist’s major research efforts include scientific investigation of the mortality and morbidity associated with injection drug use. He is director of the Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core at Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and director of the Yale office of the Connecticut Emerging Infections Program. Over 279,500 scholars have participated in the program since it was established in 1945 by Sen. J. William Fulbright. The program is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. |
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