About Sarit A. Golub
Sarit A. Golub, PhD, MPH, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She received her MPH from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard University. Dr. Golub directs the Hunter Alliance for Research & Translation (HART), whose mission is to translate research findings into practical implications for service and advocacy organizations, accelerating the pace of equitable, just, empirically-based practice. She is also Co-Director of the Behavioral and Implementation Science Core of the Einstein-Rockefeller-CUNY Center for AIDS Research (ERC-CFAR).
Dr. Golub has been awarded over $20 million in research funding from NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies, and her research-practice partnerships use scientific collaboration as a lever for health equity, focusing on development and evaluation of novel strategies to decrease stigma, increase access, empower patients and improve sexual health. Her research has been at the forefront of innovation in the rollout of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and her scholarship has been instrumental in moving the field of HIV and sexual health more broadly away from risk-focused, stigmatizing language toward more person-centered, affirming, and psychologically motivating communication strategies.Dr. Golub conducts community-based implementation research and training in collaboration with health departments, training institutes, and capacity building programs across the United States.