Nadia Abdala, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Research Scientist in Epidemiology,
Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Dr. Abdala’s research focus lies in the field of applied clinical virology. Her past research and professional experience focused on vaccine production and disease diagnostics. In the past five years, Dr. Abdala has been using her expertise to answer epidemiological questions regarding HIV transmission among injection drug users. She has investigated how long HIV remains viable inside syringes, how cooking or heating drugs prior to injection might affect HIV transmission and has assessed the effectiveness of bleach and other disinfectants in reducing HIV transmission risks via contaminated syringes. Most recently, her research has been directed toward the factors that affect HIV transmission in the Russian Federation.
Dr. Abdala’s investigated in the laboratory the viability of HIV in the context of home preparation of illicit drugs according to practices observed in Russia and has been involved in several HIV and STD prevalence studies conducted in St. Petersburg, Russia, which provided the infrastructure and grounds for a recently awarded intervention program to reduce the spread of HIV in STI clinics in St. Petersburg.
Education
D.V.M., Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil
Ph.D., Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Selected Publications
Abdala, N., Grund, J., Tolstov, Y.L., Kozlov, A.P., Heimer, R. (2006). Home–made opiate solutions and HIV–1 transmission risk. A laboratory study. Addiction, 101: 731–737.
Heimer, R., Kinzly, M.L., He, H., Abdala, N. (2007). The effect of acids on the survival of HIV during drug injection. J. Acquir. Immune. Defic. Syndr. Jun. 1:45(2): 144–50.
NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial (Abdala, N., Biologic Outcomes Workgroup) (2007). Challenges and processes of selecting outcome measures for the NIMH collaborative HIV/STD prevention trial. AIDS 21(Suppl. 2): S29–36.
NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial (Abdala, N., Biologic Outcomes Workgroup) (2007). Formative study conducted in five countries to adapt the community popular opinion leader intervention. AIDS 21(Suppl. 2): S91–8.
NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial (Abdala, N., Biologic Outcomes Workgroup) (2007). Methodological overview of a five–country community–level HIV/sexually transmitted disease prevention trial. AIDS 21(Suppl. 2): S3–S18.
NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial (Abdala, N., Biologic Outcomes Workgroup) (2007). Selection of populations represented in the NIMH collaborative HIV/STD prevention trial. AIDS 21(Suppl. 2): S19–28.
NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial (Abdala, N., Biologic Outcomes Workgroup) (2007). Sexually transmitted disease and HIV prevalence and risk factors in concentrated and generalized HIV epidemic settings. AIDS 21(Suppl. 2): S81–90.
Abdala, N., T. V. Krasnoselskikh, Durante, A.J., Timofeeva, M.Y., Verevochkin, S.V., Kozlov, A.P. (2008). Sexual transmitted diseases and risk behaviors among IDUs in St. Petersburg, Russia: The risk of heterosexual spread of HIV among and beyond IDUs. Eur. Addict. Res. 14:19–25.
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