Robert S. Broadhead , Ph.D. is a Professor of Sociology, Community Medicine, and Health Care at the University of Connecticut. His research has focused on developing a "peer-driven intervention" outreach model for injection drug users (IDU's) to prevent HIV/AIDS. He is currently the Principal Investigator of a four -year demonstration research project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse entitled " Increasing drug users' adherence to HIV therapeutics" (RO1 DA12112). He has served as the co-editor of Symbolic Interaction, the review editor of Contemporary Sociology , and the Associate Editor of The Sociological Quarterly . He is the outgoing chair of the "Health, Health Policy and Health Serivces" division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at San Francisco (1978) , and a Post-Doctoral Certificate from the University of California, Los Angeles (1979) .

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