UMass Scholar to Conduct HIV-Prevention Research at the University of California, San Francisco

Louis F. Graham, an assistant professor of health education in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will be spending the summer as a visiting professor at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. The visiting professor program is designed to assist scholars who already are conducting research in HIV prevention within minority communities with opportunities to refine their research projects and obtain additional funding. Participants in the visiting professor program are mentored by senior faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. Up to $20,000 in research funding is provided for each visiting professor.

Dr. Graham is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. He holds a master of public health degree from the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta and a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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