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
Projects
Opioid addiction treatment rollout in Pakistan
·2021 - 2022The 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
Criminal subculture in Moldovan and Kyrgyz prisons
·2021 - 2022Council 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
Transgender community care practices during COVID-19
·2020 - 2021Yale School of Public Health
Qualitative study researching communal informal healthcare practices among trans Berliners during COVID-19 lockdowns
Burden of infectious diseases among people in post-Soviet prisons
·2012 - 2015United 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
Identity politics in contemporary Ukrainian literature
·2009 - 2011U.S. Fulbright Fellowship
Analyzed Ukrainian and Russian political relations through the lens of surzhyk--a hybrid Ukrainian/Russian langauge--in contemporary Ukrainian texts