Institutional Awards
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board – Grants for Reducing Underage and Dangerous Drinking. $50,000. (Missy Stine and Lauren Strunk, Wellness Center) “Alcohol Prevention for High-Risk Drinking and Harm Reduction at Dickinson College” The Wellness Center has implemented a comprehensive alcohol prevention program via funding from the PA Liquor Control Board (PLCB). This program is comprised of an alcohol peer education program whose primary goals are to facilitate programs that educate Dickinson students about ways to prevent high-risk drinking and harm reduction, enhance professional competency of staff and peer educators, and to administer an electronic survey that evaluates students’ alcohol/other substance use and related health concerns. Results of the survey will be utilized in a Social Norming campaign that corrects students’ misperceptions about alcohol/other substances.
Faculty Awards
National Program for Scientific Research and Advanced Studies (PROCIENCIA). (Amalia Pesantes Villa, Anthropology) “Gemas: Género, Masculinidades y Salud en el Perú (Gender Masculinities and Health in Peru)” The main objective of the study “Gemas: Gender, Masculinities and Health in Peru” is to generate evidence that allows health policies to adopt a gender approach that considers masculinities, and how these can generate barriers to access to health care. Health services. By doing this, the study hopes to contribute to a field of research that has been neglected in Peru, and in general in the world, studies of masculinities and health. To achieve this objective, this study will focus on a disease, Tuberculosis, a disease of high incidence and prevalence in Peru, which is considered a poverty trap, despite having free and effective treatments for most cases. In Peru and the world, the majority of infections occur in young men, and it is men who tend to have worse adherence and treatment results. The study will be carried out in one of the areas with the highest incidence of Tuberculosis in Peru, San Juan de Lurigancho in Lima, and will include a qualitative component (interviews with users of Tuberculosis services), and health workers. The quantitative study includes an analysis of the records of the National Tuberculosis Control Program and the National Death Registry (SINADEF) to explore sex differences in relation to treatment outcomes, type of Tuberculosis, comorbidities and related deaths. with Tuberculosis. The results will be discussed in workshops with National Tuberculosis Control Program staff, and in a course on masculinities and health aimed at National Tuberculosis Control Program staff.