ASTDA offers a mentored Developmental Award to encourage new investigators to pursue an STD research career.
Previous award winners are listed below.

Alexis Roth, PhD, MPH
Positions: Assistant Professor, Community Health and Prevention, Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Packaging STI/PrEP care to prevent HIV among who inject drugs

Brandie Taylor, PhD, MPH
Positions: Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health at Texas A&M University.
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Host Genetic Susceptibility to Chlamydia-Associated Reproductive Morbidity
Jennifer Balkus, PhD, MPH
Positions: Staff Scientist, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Affiliate Instructor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington.
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Incidence and Natural History of Mycoplasma genitalium infection among Kenya and U.S Women

Positions: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Impact of STD Diagnosis on First Same-Sex Sexual Satisfaction and Behavior in Young African American MSM

Positions: Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Genomic epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with elevated MICs to cefixime

Positions: Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Sexually Transmitted Infections Among African American Women Who Have Sex with Women

Positions: Assistant Research Scientist, Applied Health Science Department, Indiana University Bloomington ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Sexual Risk Factors amongst Women who have Sex with Men and Women

Positions: Acting Instructor, Department of Medicine, Allergy, and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: T. pallidum envelope stress response

Positions: Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Div of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Adjunct Instructor in Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: The Prevalence and predictors of trichomonas infection in incarcerated women

Positions: Assistant Research Professor of Medicine/Part-time Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics/Dept of Internal Medicine, Div of Infectious Diseases/Dept of Pediatrics, Section of Adolescent Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Acquisition of Genital and Oral Human Papillomavirus in Adolescent Males
Eric Buhi, MPH, PhD
Positions: Assistant Professor, Dept of Community and Family Health/College of Public Health, University of South Florida
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Internet sex-seeking behaviors and associated STD risks among youth visiting publicly funded teen health clinics

Positions: Assistant Research Scientist, HIV/STI Prevention and Control, Denver Public Health Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Detecting Chlamydial and Gonococcal Infection Using Respondent Driven Sampling

Positions: Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health
ASTDA Funded Research Project Title: Identifying Barriers and Facilitators of HPV Vaccination of Minority Women