Professional overview

Lloyd A. Goldsamt, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Scientist at the New York University College of Nursing and an Adjunct Professor in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He has conducted NIH-funded research and community-based evaluations for the past 20 years. His primary research area is HIV and STI prevention among high-risk youth populations, including men who have sex with men, male sex workers and injection drug users. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a NIDA/PEPFAR-funded study developing and implementing a sexual health promotion intervention for young male sex workers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Dr. Goldsamt has conducted training and program evaluations locally and nationally, focusing on drug courts and community-based organizations working to prevent HIV and drug abuse. He is currently the Evaluator for the Brooklyn Treatment Court and an evaluator on an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention project developing nationwide Juvenile Drug Court Learning Collaboratives. Dr. Goldsamt is also on the faculty of the Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute and a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State.

Honors and awards

Phi Beta Kappa

Specialties

Global

LGBTQ

Substance use

HIV/AIDS