Sel J. Hwahng, PhD

Lecturer/Co-Investigator
Columbia University/Beth Israel Medical Center
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
424 Hamilton Hall
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY
USA 10027

Biographical Sketch: Sel J. Hwahng (pronounced HWONG) is currently a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Sel has received several awards, grants, and fellowships including an Independent Research Investigator Development Award from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse for research on the New York Transgender Project, the U.S. National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research, an International Scholarship from the International AIDS Society, and a U.S. National Institutes of Health National Service Research Award and Postdoctoral Training Fellowship in Drug Abuse Research. Publications include articles in peer reviewed journals and book chapters in edited volumes: Archives of Sexual Behavior, Asian American Communities and Health: Context, Research, Policy, and Action; College Literature; Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire; Gendering Difference: Studies in Contemporary Science and Medicine; GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies; Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes; Journal of Sex Research; Not Forgotten: Asian Americans Remember U.S. Wars in Asia; Sexual and Relationship Therapy; Sexuality Research and Social Policy; Substance Use and Misuse; and Violence and the Body: Race, Gender and the State. Sel has also been interviewed for the Latin-American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights website and serves on the Board of Directors for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the National Queer Asian and Pacific Islander Alliance.

Papers:
3447.0 Female primary relationship partners and HIV risk among drug-using wswm of color 4126.0 Immigrant trans Latinas in New York City—resiliencies, vulnerabilities, and health disparities