PRB Mission:

DESPR's Prevention Research Branch will improve the nation's public health status through supporting a program of basic, clinical, and services research on the development, testing, and translation of prevention interventions that target the initiation of drug use, the progression to abuse and dependence, and the transmission of HIV infection among diverse populations and settings.

PRB Goals:

• Support high quality research on the development, testing, and implementation of prevention interventions in a variety of contexts across the course of development:
• Early intervention
  Program Contacts: Belinda Sims
• Preadolescent and adolescent drug abuse and HIV prevention
  Program Contacts: Belinda Sims, Jacqueline Lloyd, Aria Crump
• Drug abuse and HIV prevention in the transition to adulthood and in adulthood
  Program Contacts: Aria Crump, Jacqueline Lloyd, Rich Jenkins
• Drug abuse Prevention Services Research, Systems Research, and Methodology Research
  Program Contacts: Belinda Sims, Diana Augusto, Rich Jenkins

PRB Staff Biographies