Dr. Suzan Walters is a research assistant professor in the School of Global Public Health and an affiliated researcher at the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research and the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy at New York University. She is also a visiting professor at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of San Francisco and a Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice fellow.
Suzan’s expertise is in harm reduction, opioid and stimulant use, HIV prevention, and health equity. Her current K01 grant focuses on how intersectional stigma experiences affect health outcomes among people who use drugs and developing stigma reduction interventions to promote equity. She has worked as an ethnographer for the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, a program director for the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities, and a research fellow for AIDS Foundation Chicago. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes for Health, American Sociological Association, Sociologists for Women and Society, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Sociology AIDS Network, and Stony Brook University.
Suzan holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stony Brook University, an M.A. in Sociology from St. Johns University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Riverside, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California and New York University.
