Dr. Delroy M Louden, FRSH Principal Investigator

Professor Delroy M Louden has held academic appointments at universities in Nigeria, The West Indies, Canada, and the United States. His distinguished awards include:

1996            Fellow of the Royal Society of Health (UK)

1995            United States Public Health Service - Bureau of Primary
                    Health Care Policy Fellowship

1985-1987   Distinguished Fulbright Scholar National Institute of Mental
                   Health Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division - Maryland

1986-1988   Post-Doctoral Fellowship The Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health

Dr. Louden has training in epidemiology, psychology and public health, over thirty years' executive and international experience in academic settings and the non- profit community. He has worked in Nigeria, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America. His non-profit experience includes - Director of Epidemiology and Surveillance, New York City,Department of Health, Bureau of Tuberculosis; Vice President for Research and, later, Executive Director-Center for Research in Nursing Education and Community Heath at the National League for Nursing in New York were he developed a Memorandum of Understanding on Nursing Education Research with the Spanish Nursing Association, and also with Madigol University in Thailand.

His international experience includes conducting a KAP (Knowledge Attitudes and Practices) survey, and conducting Peer Health Educator Training regarding HIV/AIDS with the Armed Forces Program on AIDS Control (AFPAC) in Nigeria; Lead Investigator for the Harambee Foundation in Toronto, Canada (a community-based prevalence and incidence study on drug abuse in metropolitan Toronto); The Organization of American States (family planning attitudes in adolescents parents in the English-speaking Caribbean); served as a member of the Government of Jamaica Task Force on Work Attitudes; and Vice-Chairperson of the Medical Committee and the Clinical Records Quality Assurance Committee at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica.

While at the University of the West Indies Mona (1980-85), Dr. Louden was involved with the faculty of Medicine in the preparation of several papers to the Caribbean Ministers of Health, notably the mental health needs of smaller Caribbean states. In addition as a UWI faculty member he was involved in the Kellogg Foundation Establishment of the Primary Care Center in St. Lucia as well as coordinating UWI - Mona activities in the development of Mount Hope Medical Complex in Trinidad. A former Fulbright Scholar, he has held academic appointments at universities in England, Canada, Nigeria, and in the USA.

He has provided consultation in a variety of settings, more recently with the US government federal agency, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA); Associate Administrator for HIV/AIDS, Project Integration of HIV/AIDS Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Hepatitis; as Track Co-chair at CDC 2002 National HIV Prevention Conference; monitoring and evaluation including conducting site visits; the development of chart review instruments for primary medical care, case management, and client satisfaction surveys of CBOs providing services to HIV/AIDS clients in Washington DC and the surrounding metropolitan areas; Grant reviewer for SAMHSA and HRSA, on SPNS (special projects of national significance), early intervention services and the Office of Minority Health - DHSS Bilingual/ Bicultural Service Demonstration Program; the Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP) Project - Benchmark for Excellence in Home Care; and the National Institute for Drug Abuse Special Population Research Training Seminar.

Dr. Louden is a member of the American College of Epidemiology, American Public Health Association and the Society for Epidemiological Research.