Dr. Fernando Montero Receives Three-Year NIH Grant

Anthropology alum, Dr. Fernando Montero and Dr. Nabila El-Bassel have received a 3-year R34 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop their concept of supply-side harm reduction, working with Puerto Rican and Black people who sell drugs in Philadelphia to design and pilot a drug overdose and HIV prevention intervention. With the study, they aim to reverse the historical exclusion of people who sell drugs from public health research and harm reduction interventions.