Queer sexualized drug use
·2021 - 2022Yale University Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Explore the evolving sexualized drug use practices among queer people in Berlin during COVID-19 lockdowns
Yale University Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Explore the evolving sexualized drug use practices among queer people in Berlin during COVID-19 lockdowns
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Islamabad, Pakistan
Design and coordinate research on the feasibility of implementing a methadone maintenance program to treat opioid dependence in Pakistan
Council of Europe
Led a team of 15 researchers to conduct first ever sociological study of criminal subculture in Ukrainian, Moldovan, and Kyrgyz prisons and its impact on health
Yale School of Public Health
Qualitative study researching communal informal healthcare practices among trans Berliners during COVID-19 lockdowns
United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime – Central Asia
Implemented the first representative biobehavioral health survey in the prisons of Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan surveying 1,000+ people in prison to determine drivers of the HIV epidemic
Developed a protocol for transition from prison to community addiction care for people in prison
U.S. Fulbright Fellowship
Analyzed Ukrainian and Russian political relations through the lens of surzhyk--a hybrid Ukrainian/Russian langauge--in contemporary Ukrainian texts