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Dr. Tang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Tang received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology, with an emphasis in Infectious Diseases, in 1996 from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Tang has been the Principle Investigator of three NIH-funded studies and one CDC-funded study, all related to HIV infection in injection drug users. Her first study, funded in 1996 by NIDA, was a 2.5 year longitudinal study on the “Nutritional Status of HIV-positive and HIV-negative injection drug users in Baltimore, Maryland.” Dr. Tang was also the PI of the Baltimore site of the multicenter HIV Network for Prevention Trials (HIVNET) from 1997-1999. In 1998, she received a grant from the CDC to study “Barriers to HIV testing in injection drug users and young adults” in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Tang has published several articles and two book chapters on the role of micronutrients in HIV-infection. She is available to assist TNC members with the design, collection, and analysis of study data related to the nutritional, endocrine, and metabolic (NEM) complications of HIV infection and drug use.