1999 NIDA
Research Trainees
For three summers, the School of Public Health has hosted visiting undergraduate students who serve as trainees in research methods under the Minority Scholars Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The program recruits and matches outstanding students to an existing NIDA-funded project, providing them the opportunity to observe and participate in the on-going activities of a large-scale research study.
This year, the program welcomed six students: Nyree Whittaker (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania); Melissa Tamburo (Delaware State University); Omega Aquisap (Palomar College, California); Shuntae Williams (Tennessee State University); Kimya Jackson (Spelman College, Georgia); and Milton Armston (Illinois School of Professional Psychology). Chyvette T. Williams, who recently completed her MPH at the school, served as the trainees’ graduate mentor and was responsible for overseeing their research participation while at SPH._The trainees joined Maribel Valle, a doctoral student in CHS, under similar NIDA sponsorship. All seven scholars served their traineeships with the Partners in Community Health Project, a NIDA-funded study directed by Dr. Judith Levy that examines HIV partner notification among injecting drug users.
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