Doctoral student recognized for research exploring barriers to PrEP
Kirsten Paulus, a second-year PhD student in social and behavioral sciences, has won the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Health Decision Making SIG Student/Trainee Abstract Award. This national award recognizes exceptional abstracts that lend significant contributions to the fields of health decision-making and behavioral science.
Paulus’s research examines how women who inject drugs understand pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a medicine found to reduce the chances of contracting HIV. She won for her abstract titled "The relationship of PrEP beliefs to perceived personal,...