Area of research
Epidemiology · Infectious Diseases
Research interest
Research interests include HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV Research and Treatment, and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.
Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution
How the rural risk environment underpins hepatitis C risk: Qualitative findings from rural southern Illinois, United States
I Don’t Believe a Person Has to Die When Trying to Get High: Overdose Prevention and Response Strategies in Rural Illinois
Structural and community changes during COVID-19 and their effects on overdose precursors among rural people who use drugs: a mixed-methods analysis
Toward a Theory of the Underpinnings and Vulnerabilities of Structural Racism: Looking Upstream from Disease Inequities among People Who Use Drugs
Socially-supportive norms and mutual aid of people who use opioids: An analysis of Reddit during the initial COVID-19 pandemic
The stigma system: How sociopolitical domination, scapegoating, and stigma shape public health
PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Rural and Urban Differences in Stigma and Social Infrastructure
“How will I get my next week's script?” Reactions of Reddit opioid forum users to changes in treatment access in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic
Adverse Childhood Experiences Predict Early Initiation of Opioid Use Behaviors
Informal Coping Strategies Among People Who Use Opioids During COVID-19: Thematic Analysis of Reddit Forums
Challenges posed by COVID‐19 to people who inject drugs and lessons from other outbreaks
Stigmatize the use, not the user? Attitudes on opioid use, drug injection, treatment, and overdose prevention in rural communities
COVID‐19 During the Opioid Epidemic – Exacerbation of Stigma and Vulnerabilities
A Critical Review of the Social and Behavioral Contributions to the Overdose Epidemic
Breaching Trust: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Experiences of People Who Use Drugs in a Rural Setting
Rural risk environments, opioid-related overdose, and infectious diseases: A multidimensional, spatial perspective
The Opioid/Overdose Crisis as a Dialectics of Pain, Despair, and One-Sided Struggle
Trends in State Policy Support for Sexual Minorities and HIV-Related Outcomes Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States, 2008–2014
Phylodynamics Helps to Evaluate the Impact of an HIV Prevention Intervention
Trends over time in HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs in 89 large US metropolitan statistical areas, 1992–2013
Trajectories of and disparities in HIV prevalence among Black, white, and Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men in 86 large U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, 1992–2013
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness and Use Within High HIV Transmission Networks
Implementation of Syringe Services Programs to Prevent Rapid Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission in Rural Counties in the United States: A Modeling Study
Social norms associated with nonmedical opioid use in rural communities: a systematic review
States with higher minimum wages have lower STI rates among women: Results of an ecological study of 66 US metropolitan areas, 2003-2015
Social network approaches to locating people recently infected with <scp>HIV</scp> in Odessa, Ukraine
Risk network approaches to locating undiagnosed <scp>HIV</scp> cases in Odessa, Ukraine
Relationship of Racial Residential Segregation to Newly Diagnosed Cases of HIV among Black Heterosexuals in US Metropolitan Areas, 2008–2015
Young Drug Users: a Vulnerable Population and an Underutilized Resource in HIV/HCV Prevention