Dr. Bergen-Cico, associate professor of public health, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and conduct research in the Republic of Georgia for the 2015-16 academic year. Her research will support development and implementation of primary prevention and drug education in Georgia and the region, including Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Armenia. She will also teach at the Ilia State University (ISU) in Tbilisi, Georgia in support of their work on school-based drug education and primary prevention programs. Her project title is, Assessing the Needs and Feasibility for Drug Education and Primary Prevention in Georgia.
Nato Ivanishvili ’15, a public health major and addiction studies minor, who co-authored a book chapter with Bergen-Cico, currently in press entitled, “Opioid prescription drug abuse and its relation to heroin trends” (The Neuropathology Of Drug Addictions And Substance Misuse, Volume 1, Victor Preedy, Ed., Academic Press, will be involved in Bergen-Cico’s Fulbright Scholarship research.
The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. Since its inception in 1946, it has provided more than 300,000 participants with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.