Martin Y. Iguchi

Biography

Martin Y. Iguchi is an adjunct senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. He chairs and teaches at the Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health. He is principal investigator (PI) on a study of aging performing artists in New York and Los Angeles and PI of a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trial Network study of barriers to treatment entry among Asian and Pacific Islander drug users. Recent publications examine the role of drugs in promoting sexual diffusion of HIV, drug courts, how the criminalization of drug use exacerbates health disparities in black and Hispanic communities, racial differences in marijuana acquisition behaviors that elevate risk for arrest, motivational interviewing, cost-effectiveness, health-related quality of life in methamphetamine users, drug policies, contingency management treatment for chronically depressed cocaine abusers, shaping abstinence in smokers, HIV medication adherence, and prescription drug abuse. Iguchi is a fellow of the American Psychological Association; cochair of NIDA's Asian American/Pacific Islander Researchers and Scholars Work Group; member of NIDA's Center Grant Review Committee; fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence; codirector of the Barriers to Care Program Area, UCLA AIDS Institute; senior editor of Addiction; and editorial board member of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, and Journal of Drug Issues (on which he also serves as associate editor). Iguchi received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Boston University.