El-Bassel is a Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Director of the Social Intervention Group (SIG), which was established in 1990 as a multi-disciplinary research center on HIV and drug abuse. She is the Director of the NIMH HIV training program for racial ethnic m...
El-Bassel is a Professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Director of the Social Intervention Group (SIG), which was established in 1990 as a multi-disciplinary research center on HIV and drug abuse. She is the Director of the NIMH HIV training program for racial ethnic minority researchers.
She is also the Director of the recently established Columbia University Global Health Research Center (CUGHRC) in Central Asia. Over the past 17 years, El-Bassel has designed and tested HIV prevention strategies in clinical trials for women, men, and couples recruited from drug-treatment programs, primary care, criminal justice and international settings. In the past eight years , El-Bassel has been studying the co-occurring problems on of HIV, violence/trauma, and drug abuse among women and men.