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1^st SAN Award for Career Contributions to the Sociology of HIV/AIDS

Awarded 8/12/07

Samuel R. Friedman

 

Congratulations to Sam Friedman, the recipient of the first Award for Career Contributions to the Sociology of HIV/AIDS from the Sociologists’ AIDS Network (SAN).  Sam earned his PhD at the University of Michigan, and is now a Senior Research Fellow and the Director of the Social Theory Core in the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research at National Development and Research Institutes here in New York City.  In addition, he was recently appointed as a Senior Associate in the Department of Epidemiology of Bloomberg School of Public Health, at Johns Hopkins University.  Sam has devoted his professional life for the last two decades to exemplary research and community politics related to HIV/AIDS.  His particular focus has been on epidemiology and prevention for injection drug users, and his research has gone a long way toward improving prevention strategies and reducing HIV transmission for this group.  He has published over 300 articles, paying particular attention to sexual and social networks, social and structural interventions, and collective organization and activities of drug users.  As a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the field, he has been an editor at major AIDS-related journals and has worked on key panels for the National Academy of Sciences and for International AIDS Conferences.