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Professor, Educator Track
Director of Public Health Education
Executive Director of the Florida Node Alliance of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN)
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Biography
Viviana E. Horigian, MD, MHA, is a Professor, Educator, in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is currently serving as the Director of Public Health Education, director of the Americas Initiative for Public Health Innovation, and directs the Masters in Public Health and Masters in Science in Public Health.
Dr. Horigian is also the Executive Director of the Florida Node Alliance of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) housed at the University of Miami. The Florida Node Alliance is a partnership between scientists and program leaders at the University of Miami with scientists and practice leaders from community treatment agencies located in Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico. As partners, scientists and practitioners design, implement, and train in interventions for alcohol and drug abuse treatment.
Dr. Horigian’s career has been committed to improving practice through the implementation of clinical trials in real-world settings, and in creating the local capacities that would allow the implementation of such trials. She was the Principal Investigator of a technology transfer project that aimed to develop the research infrastructure for the implementation of rigorous randomized clinical trials in Mexico. In this role, she mentored investigators from the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico on the design, implementation, safety, and interpretation of the results of RCTs in real-world treatment settings. She has used the same methodology for technology transfer to develop research capacity in Ecuador and Chile. Due to her international leadership, she was honored with the 2015 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Program Award of Excellence.
Together with Drs Daniel Feaster and Sannisha Dale, she directs the CHANGE training program, an interdisciplinary, innovative, and timely approach to train the next generation of HIV behavioral scientists with skills to address persistent health disparities in HIV treatment and prevention in Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ communities.
She currently serves in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and represents the MSOM in its Academic Affairs Section. She is an advisory council member of the Hispanic and Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center & of the National Latino Behavioral Association since 2019.
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