Features

Distinctive features of our program include its interdisciplinary nature and focus on training in early intervention and treatment along a continuum, with attention to crucial health disparities. It offers highly individualized opportunities to develop competitive grant applications and by doing so, contribute new knowledge to the base of alcohol- and other substance-related dysfunction and treatment.

Goals

The goals of our training program are:

1. To recruit a diverse group of early-career behavioral, medical, and social scientists, as well as health care professionals who want to conduct high quality research in the early intervention and treatment of alcohol and other drug problems
2. To provide fellows with rigorous interdisciplinary training in addiction science and grant writing through a combination of didactic and practical training and individualized mentorship from leading researchers and clinical scientists
3. To ensure fellows reach their own individual scientific career objectives by tailoring training opportunities to their unique goals and needs

Mentorship

While at CAAS, our postdoctoral trainees receive mentorship from expert mentors who are members of the Brown community. Postdocs develop skills in research project development; author and co-author scholarly publications; and engage in hands-on research learning from experienced investigators, including submission of their own grant research proposals. They participate in interdisciplinary curricula in such fields as social work, public health, psychiatry, biostatistics, genetics, and economics. They also attend national addiction, social work and public health conferences as learners and presenters.

Our training faculty are drawn from CAAS, and various departments and teaching hospitals affiliated with Brown University. They are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competencies in conducting research related to alcohol and substance abuse and their enthusiasm for mentoring early career scientists.