Our Faculty

PhD, Columbia University, 1980

BA, Miami University, 1967

University Affiliations:

• Columbia Population Research Center

• Invited Presentation, White House special policy briefing on Housing and HIV/AIDS, 2009
• Best Article of 1999, Awarded by the American Planning Association
• Calderone Award, Columbia School of Public Health, 1995
• Talmon International Prize for Scholarship in Family, Religion or Community

Selected Editorial Boards

• Editorial Board, AIDS & Behavior

Community Health Advisory & Information Network Project
Dr. Aidala is Co-Principal Director and Study Director of the Community Health Advisory & Information Network (CHAIN) Project, an ongoing study of persons living with HIV or at high risk of infection in New York City. CHAIN is conducted in collaboration with the HIV Planning Council and the New York Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Each year multiple reports are written, responding to the questions, interests, and priorities of the DOHMH and the Planning Council and its workgroups. To date, over 130 reports have been written examining a range of topics with focus on unmet health and social service needs, trends in service utilization, and various outcomes among multiple CHAIN cohorts. CHAIN has been a major source of service planning data for the City since 1994. All reports are available at no cost and widely distributed to provider, advocacy, and consumer communities.

Frequent Users of Services Enhancement ( FUSE) Evaluation
Dr. Aidala is currently the Principal Investigator for the New York City, Frequent Users of Services Enhancement ( FUSE) Evaluation. FUSE is a supportive housing intervention for homeless re-entry populations with multiple episodes of homelessness and correctional involvement. FUSE in an interagency initiative implemented by the New York City Departments of Correction (DOC), Homeless Services (DHS) and Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), in collaboration with the Corporation for Supportive Housing and a local housing providers.