How Structural Violence & Structural Disempowerment Undermine Biomedical Interventions and Shape Infectious Diseases Among People Who Inject Drugs

The Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Applied Studies (IDEAS) Initiative and the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) invite you to a hybrid seminar featuring Dr. Ricky Bluthenthal, Flora L Thornton Chair, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences along with Dr. Sid Ganesh, a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Dr. Bluthenthal is a Distinguished Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Chair of the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is also the Flora L. Thornton Chair in Preventive Medicine. His research has established the effectiveness of syringe exchange programs, tested novel interventions and strategies to reduce HIV risk and improve HIV testing among injection drug users and men who have sex with men, documented how community conditions contribute to health disparities, and examined health policy implementation.

Dr. Ganesh got her doctorate in Health Behavior Research at USC, and her work sits at the intersection of (in)equity in healthcare systems, physician moral injury, and institutional interventions that improve patient health outcomes among people with overlapping structural vulnerabilities such as homelessness and immiseration.

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Register for ZOOM link: March 25 IDEAS Initiative Seminar Registration Link