MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - BALTIMORE, MARYLAND - MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Dates attended: January 2007 - May 2009

DAVAO MEDICAL SCHOOL - DAVAO CITY, PHILIPPINES - DOCTOR OF MEDICINE
Dates attended: June 1999 - May 2003

ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY - QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES - BS BIOLOGY
Dates attended: June 1995 - April 199

Publications

Edwards L, Dennis S, and Lindong I. Are you smart enough? The Get SMART project phase I: helping emerging adults make informed decision. International Journal of Ethnic College Health. 2015 Jan.

Braithwaite R, Edwards L, Francis C, Dennis S, Lindong I, Holliday R, and Hernandez D. Condom Availability at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. International Journal of Ethnic College Health. 2016 Oct.

Edwards L, Braithwaite R, Lindong I, et al. Alcohol and Marijuana Use and Risk-taking Behaviors among African American Emerging Adult Students. International Journal of Ethnic College Health. 2016 Oct.

Senya K, Ibrahim A, Lindong I, et al. Use of Smartphone Applications for Clinical Decision Making in a Poor Country: an Exploratory Study of Smartphone Use among Medical Practitioners in Ghana. Global Social Welfare. 2016 Dec.  

Edwards L, Lindong, I, Brown L, et al. None of Us Will Get Out of Here Alive: The Intersection of Perceived Risk for HIV, Risk Behaviors, and Survival Expectations among African American Emerging Adults. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2017 May.

Lindong I, Edwards L, Dennis S, et al. Similarities and Differences Matter: Considering the Influence of Gender on HIV Prevention Programs for Young Adults in an Urban HBCU. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017 Jan.

Edwards L, Lindong I, Brown L, et al. The Perceived Risk Hierarchy Theory TM: a New Framework for Understanding Health Risk and Reality among African American Emerging Adults. International Journal of Ethnic College Health. 2018 May.

Lindong I, Sheikhattari P, Wagner F, and O’Keefe A. CEASE Baltimore: a CBPR Center for Sustained Lifestyle Change. Abstract accepted for conference presentation at the APHA conference October 2015.

Edwards L, Dennis S, Lindong I, Fajobi O. Unfinished business: sexual expressions among African American emerging adult women. Presented at The Association of Black Sexologist and Clinicians Spring Roundtable/Panel Series. June 2016.

Hossain M, Lindong I, Davis P, and Merengwa E. Are there any disparities in unmet mental health treatment needs for serious mental illness among adults aged 18 or older in the US? Abstract accepted for conference presentation at the APHA conference October 2016.

Merengwa E, Hossain M, and Lindong I. HIV Test and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Elderly Women in the United States: Sexual Health Consciousness or a Consequence of Risky Sexual Behavior?  Abstract accepted for conference presentation at the APHA conference October 2016.

Hossain M, Davis P, and Lindong I. Mental health consequences of nonmedical prescription drug use among youths aged 12-17 in the US using NSDUH 2004-2013. Abstract accepted for conference presentation at the APHA conference October 2016.

Hossain M, Edwards L, and Lindong I. Examining the Associations of Nonmedical Prescription Pain Reliever Use and the Initiation of Heroin Use among Young Adults Aged 18 to 25 in the US. Poster, American Public Health Association (APHA) Conference November 2017.

Edwards L, Baptiste-Roberts K, and Lindong I. Risk may be low but stakes are high: sexual health disparities among women who have sex with other women. Poster, APHA Conference November 2017.

Grants

CO-DIRECTOR FOR ASCEND, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

September 2014 – August 2016

Part of the Research Team that was awarded $23.4M by the National Institutes of Health to build infrastructure in the University to increase the pipeline of minority and underserved students pursuing advanced degrees and careers in the biomedical field

Role: Co-director for Research Enrichment Core

CO-DIRECTOR FOR GET SMART PROJECT, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

October 2013 – September 2016

Co-wrote the proposal funded by SAMHSA for $900,000 to prevent HIV/AIDS and substance abuse through a partnership between minority serving institutions and community based organizations (MSI/CBO)

Role: Co-director for Program Implementation

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR iCHAT PROJECT, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

October 2015 – September 2018

Co-wrote the proposal funded by SAMHSA for $900,000 to prevent HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and Hepatitis C through a partnership between minority serving institutions and community based organizations

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR DRUG FREE COMMUNITIES (DFC) COALITION GRANT, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

October 2016 – present

Serve as internal evaluator for the DFC coalition to ensure project fidelity. Funded by the SAMHSA, the grant is a 10-year project amounting to $1.25 million to strengthen communities in the fight against drugs and illicit substance