Subject
Expertise
Health
SONA Consulting staff have extensive training and work experience
in the areas of delivery of health services, health services research and
evaluation and health promotion and disease prevention.
Examples of Health related project
activities include:
Chlamydia Project funded by CDC
Healthy Lifestyle: Chlamydia outreach and
evaluation project funded by the City of
Project Lead: A breast cancer education and
evaluation project for at risk women in the City of
Physicians for Social Responsibility: A
domestic violence training and evaluation project for health care providers in
the City of
HIV/AIDS
The staff at SONA Consulting had post doctoral training and
experience in the areas of HIV/AIDS.
Examples of the HIV/AIDS project related
activities include:
Wrote and submitted a grant proposal entitled "Self Disclosure of Serostatus
by HIV Infected Drug Injectors" to National Institute of Drug Abuse
(NIDA).
AIDS
Out- Reach Project.
Published
a paper entitled "Using Retrospective Behavioral Data to determine HIV
Risk Factors among Street Recruited Drug Injectors in
Published
an abstract entitled Risk Factors for HIV-1 Infection
among Street Recruited Drug Users" in Problems
of Drug Dependence, 1992. NIDA
Research Monograph, 132,
Organized
a poster session on Risk factors for HIV-1 Infection Among Street Recruited IV
Drug Users" at the Annual Scientific Meeting of college on Problems of
Drug Dependence,
Develop
training curriculum and provide training to health care workers in
Substance Abuse
SONA Consulting staff have training and experience in the areas
of substance abuse.
Examples of the substance abuse project
related activities include:
Was part of a team to
write a project proposal on Drug Treatment for Female Offenders for submission
to National Institute of Justice.
Organized and chaired a session on Drugs,
Minority Women and Crime, served as a discussant in a session on drug abuse and
criminalization of pregnancy and chaired a session on Alcohol abuse at the
annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology.
Project
to analyze criminal histories of probationers and parolees in the drug
treatment programs for the State of
Maternal and Child Health
SONA Consulting staff have wide range of experience in the areas
of maternal and child health.
Examples of maternal and child health
related project activities include:
Title X project: A need-assessment and reproductive
health service project in South
Healthy Start project: A maternal and child health service and
evaluation project for women in the
TALENT project: A pregnancy prevention demonstration
and evaluation project for TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families)
clients
Abuelas
project: A pregnancy and substance abuse prevention demonstration and
evaluation project for at risk teenage women in the City of
Crime and Justice
SONA Consulting staff have taught Criminology and Criminal
Justice courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Examples of crime and justice related
project activities include:
Analyzed data on Female Victims of Murder‑Suicide
in the state of
Project
to analyze criminal histories of probationers and parolees in the drug treatment programs for the State of
Was part of a team to
write a project proposal on Drug Treatment for Female Offenders for submission
to National Institute of Justice.
Organized and chaired a session on Drugs,
Minority Women and Crime, and served as a discussant in a session on drug abuse
and criminalization of pregnancy.
Served as Chair of a task force on minority women
and crime organized by the Division of Women and Crime of the American Society of
Criminology.
Women, Minorities, Immigrant and
special Population.
SONA Consulting staff
have been involved in
studying the needs, communities and experiences of women, minorities, immigrant
and special populations for almost two decades.
Examples of project activities include:
Technical Assistance
for HIV/AIDS Prevention among Gay Men of African Descent.
Technical assistance,
site assessment and program evaluation for minority youth serving community
agencies in the city of
Published a book entitled On the Trail
of an Uncertain Dream - Indian Immigrant Experience in the United States (AMS
Press, 1989)
Published an article entitled “Conjugal
Roles and Social Network in Indian Immigrant Families: Bott
Revisited" in a peer reviewed journal.
Presented a paper entitled "Indian immigrant
women in an Isolated Nuclear Family, A Burdensome Proposition" at the
annual meeting Eastern Sociological Society
"Asian Indian Community in the U.S.:
Cultural - Reaffirmation within an Ethnic Enclave" Paper presented t the
World Congress of International Sociological, Association.