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        Michael D. Sweat, Ph.D.

Michael Sweat, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Family Services Research Center, with expertise and experience in behavioral prevention science applied to developing country settings. His primary research focus is on HIV prevention, and he is currently the PI on three major studies with funding from from NIH, including: (1) a NIMH funded community-randomized trial examining the efficacy of community-based voluntary counseling and testing for HIV in reducing HIV incidence in rural Tanzania; (2) a NIMH-funded study conducting systematic reviews, meta-analysis, mathematical modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis using data from HIV behavioral prevention studies from developing countries, and being conducted in collaboration with the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization; and (3) a NIDA-funded study examining the effectiveness of a multi-phased buprenorphine-based intervention among a cohort of injecting drug users in New Delhi, India.  Dr. Sweat recently joined MUSC, and was previously an Associate Professor and Director of the Social and Behavioral Interventions Program in the Department of International Health at The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.