Collaborative work between the West and Asia

Yih-Ing Hser ^a,e,*, Gavin Bart ^b, Li Li ^c, Le Minh Giang ^d

a Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences,
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
b Division of Addiction Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
c Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
d Vietnam-HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Center (VHATTC) and Department of Epidemiology,
Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
e Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

The “Collaborative work between the West and Asia” session was chaired by Dr Yih-Ing Hser and had three speakers. The speakers (and their topics) were: Dr Gavin Bart (Collaborative addiction research in the United States and Asia), Dr Li Li (Implementing intervention research projects in Asia), and Dr Le Minh Giang (Building research infrastructure for international collaborative studies on substance use disorder and HIV: The case of Hanoi Medical University/Vietnam).

Keywords:Collaborative research, Implementing intervention research project, Research infrastructure