Dr. Wu is an Associate Professor at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW), Associate Director of the CSSW Social Intervention Group (SIG), Co-Director of the HIV Intervention Science Training Program (HISTP), and a Faculty Affiliate of the Columbia University Global Health Research Center of Central Asia.
Together with his colleagues at SIG, Dr. Wu conducts research focusing on treatment, prevention, and services research targeting the overlap in drug abuse, HIV, and violence. Dr. Wu has served as PI for studies specifically with marginalized populations such as criminal justice-involved individuals, men who have sex with men (MSM), and racial/ethnic minorities and people of color in the USA. In his role as Co-Director of HISTP, Dr. Wu has also been funded to train promising new investigators from social work, psychology, and other behavioral health sciences who are interested in bringing innovative programs of HIV research to larger scale.