Mohammad Mousavi
Mohammad Mousavi is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware and a Research Assistant in the Stigma & Health Inequities Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Valerie Earnshaw. Mohammad holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology and a Bachelor in Psychology. As a research assistant, Mohammad is involved in several national and international NIH-funded projects, including: 1) examining the longitudinal impact of stigma mechanisms on treatment engagement in emerging adults, 2) developing a disclosure intervention to reduce social isolation and facilitate recovery among individuals in treatment for opioid use disorder, 3) implementing stigma reduction tools via a popular teletraining platform to decrease clinician stigma and improve HIV testing, prevention, and linkage to care in Malaysia, 4) evaluating the effectiveness of the enCompass and responding to addiction interventions in improving knowledge of addiction in collaboration with the Addiction Policy Forum, and 5) conducting a statewide needs assessment to identify the met and unmet needs of individuals who could benefit from HIV prevention services, in collaboration with the Delaware HIV Planning Council. In all these research projects, his mentor, Dr. Valerie Earnshaw, is a principal investigator.
