2R01DA033862-09 Havens (PI) 06/15/2022 - 03/32/2027
The goal of this R01 renewal is to examine the impact of methamphetamine (MA) use on fatal and nonfatal overdose, engagement in injection- and sex-risk behaviors, and treatment for substance use disorders (SUD) among people who use drugs (PWUD) from two Appalachian cohorts.
Role:
Co-Investigator (Site PI) / Consultant (10/17/22 - 3/23/2027)
R01AI16902-01 Dennis (PI) 07/01/2022 - 02/28/2027
Rapid Response to Incident HIV Infection to Identify Expanding Transmission networks and Inform Partner Services
The objective of the proposed research is to improve the response to incident HIV infection by engaging the networks of Black men who have sex with men and transgender women through a combination of Partner Services (PS), social network recruitment, and HIV genetic cluster detectionRole: Consultant
Completed Research Support
NU58IP000003 Rudolph (PI) 09/01/2022 - 10/31/2023
Tracking the burden, distribution, and impact of Post COVID-19 conditions among a diverse group of children, adolescents, and adults in Philadelphia, PA.
This project aims to better characterize the overall burden of morbidity following SARS-CoV-2 infection, identify geographic areas and groups of individuals that are disproportionately impacted, and monitor post COVID-19 conditions (PCC) trends over time. Our findings will guide the development of PCC prevention programs, public health actions to reduce health disparities, and clinical guidelines and care efforts; and be used to plan for future rehabilitation and treatment needs.
Role: Principal Investigator
1R01DA050470-01A1 Latkin (PI) 07/01/2020 - 10/14/2022
A geospatial analysis of hotspots and targeted injection settings pilot intervention for HIV prevention among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, MarylandThis proposed study uses innovative approaches
to identify “hotspots,” defined as geographic areas in which high rates of HIV
or HCV infection, high HIV viral loads, or drug-resistant HIV strains are
found.
Role:
Co-Investigator
PA Cure Grant Belenko (PI) 06/01/2019 - 10/14/2022
Enhancing Healthy Reintegration and Recovery for High-Risk Opioid Users
This project aims to develop an intervention to facilitate access to, initiation of, and adherence to MAT for previously incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder returning to the Philadelphia region, who have been inducted on MAT while in custody. The project builds upon and enhances current MAT efforts in Philadelphia jails and PA prisons, as well as emerging efforts by the Temple University Health System to establish a hub and spoke system to provide MAT to an expanding number of patients.
Role: Co-Investigator
NIDCR R01 DE027985 Garcia (PI) 08/15/18 - 07/31/22
Social networks and oral health-related risk behaviors in public housing communities
This project will use a systems science approach to better understand the factors affecting the oral health of public housing residents.
Role: Co-Investigator
NIDA 1F31DA051198-01 Romo (PI) 07/06/2020 - 07/05/2022
Hepatitis B Demonstration Program-HBV PreVNTT Johnson (PI) 7/15/2019 - 6/30/22
Office of Minority Health Hepatitis B Demonstration Grant Program
Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This
project aims to reduce Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) transmission, morbidity
and mortality, and health disparities for people living with HBV across
Philadelphia. The project will also develop effective and sustainable
strategies for addressing HBV patient engagement in Philadelphia.
Role: External Program Evaluator
R01DA033862 Havens
(PI) 05/01/2016 - 05/31/2022 (NCE)
Effect of Structural
Interventions on HIV/HCV Risk among Rural PWUD
The goal of the study is to examine engagement in
structural interventions and to determine their potential influence on risk
reduction and health promotion activities among rural Appalachian people who
use drugs.
Role: Co-Investigator (Site PI)
Penn State Abington Sterner (PI) 07/03/2019 - 06/30/2021
NIDA U24 DA048538 Delaney, Crane, and Tsui (PIs) 08/01/2019 - 09/30/2021
By
integrating and linking data across studies, this project will achieve
the sample sizes needed to better understand the consequences, impacts,
and other lessons that can be learned regarding opioid use in rural
communities.
Role: Co-Investigator (Site PI)
R21AI131979 Rudolph (PI) 02/15/2017 - 01/31/2021 (NCE)
Combining social network,
spatial, and phylogenetic approaches to identify new HIV infections.
Current strategies to identify new HIV infections use social network, spatial, and phylogenetic approaches, but combining all three approaches is rare. This project is developing new analytic methods to combine these three types of data and analyses will inform the development novel multi-level and targeted strategies to identify previously undiagnosed HIV infections and deliver prevention interventions to those most at risk for acquiring HIV
NIDA UH3DA044830 Friedmann and Stopka (MPIs) 8/01/2019 - 07/31/2021
This two-stage, mixed-methods study will examine epidemiology, infectious consequences and service accessibility among young PWID in 15 rural counties in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, and then implement an integrated telemedicine approach to treat OUD and reduce HIV, other infectious complications and overdose.
Role: Consultant
NIDA UH3 DA044798-01 Young and Cooper (PIs) 08/1/2019 - 07/31/2020
Kentucky Communities and Researchers Engaging to Halt the Opioid Epidemic (CARE2HOPE)
This project is employing community/academic partnerships to build effective, evidence-based, community-grounded public health responses to combat the intertwined epidemics of heroin and non-medical prescription opioid injecting, overdoses, and HCV, and imminent HIV outbreaks, in 12 of the hardest hit rural counties in the US. Located in Central Appalachian Kentucky, 10 of the 12 counties are in the top 5% for HIV/HCV vulnerability in the US.
Role: Co-Investigator (Site PI)
State of Vermont Edwards (PI) 06/01/2018 - 12/31/2019
Agency of Human Services’ Department of Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs
Vermont Opioid Use Harm Reduction Evaluation
The primary goals for the evaluation are to use both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess knowledge and use of harm reduction strategies among high-risk opioid users in Vermont and to identify approaches for effectively communicating health messages to this population.
Role: Consultant
NIDA UG3DA044830 Friedmann (PI) 08/15/2017 - 07/31/2019
This two-stage, mixed-methods study will examine epidemiology, infectious consequences and service accessibility among young PWID in 15 rural counties in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, and then implement an integrated telemedicine approach to treat OUD and reduce HIV, other infectious complications and overdose.
Role: Consultant
NIDA UG3 DA044798-01 Young and Cooper (MPIs) 08/14/2017 - 07/31/2019
Kentucky Communities and Researchers Engaging to Halt the Opioid Epidemic (CARE2HOPE)
This project is employing community/academic partnerships to build effective, evidence-based, community-grounded public health responses to combat the intertwined epidemics of heroin and non-medical prescription opioid injecting, overdoses, and HCV, and imminent HIV outbreaks, in 12 of the hardest hit rural counties in the US. Located in Central Appalachian Kentucky, 10 of the 12 counties are in the top 5% for HIV/HCV vulnerability in the US.
Role: Co-Investigator (Site PI)
Boston University Digital Health Initiative Research Award Rudolph (PI) 06/15/2017–06/14/2019
Developing an Overdose Prevention Mobile Application.
Unintentional poisoning, primarily from drug overdose, is the leading cause of injury-related death among Americans and the Appalachian region has been disproportionately burdened by overdose fatalities. This project will develop a mobile application to (1) increase the number of people trained in overdose prevention, (2) improve emergency response times, and (3) increase substance abuse treatment uptake.
Role: Principal Investigator
NIDA R03DA039740 Young (PI) 09/01/2016 - 08/31/2019 (NCE)
Role of Social Media and Mobile Apps in Sexual and Drug Co-Usage Networks of MSM
This project examines overlap in sex and drug use networks of men
who have sex with men (MSM), overlays information about sex partnerships
facilitated by social networking applications, and determines the association
between app use and spatial and network-level patterns of HIV risk behavior in
a mid-size city in the South.
Role: Consultant
NICHD R01HD077891 Stockman (PI) 09/16/2013 - 06/30/2019 (NCE)
The Impact of Environmental and Physiological Factors on Sexual Assault and HIV
The goal of this project is to evaluate the impact of the built and social environment on forced sex and, in turn, elucidate how forced sex and physiological factors influence behavioral mechanisms that increase risk for HIV acquisition among at-risk, HIV-negative African-American women in Baltimore, Maryland.
Role: Co-Investigator (Site PI)
NIDA K01DA033879 Rudolph (PI) 09/01/2012 - 08/31/2018 (NCE)
HIV and Substance Abuse Epidemiology among IDUs: Structural and Network Risk Factors
The goal of this project is
to better understand how network and spatial factors act independently and
together to influence risk and health-seeking behaviors among HIV positive
persons who use drugs in Baltimore, Maryland.
Role: Principal Investigator
NIDCR K99DE025917 Heaton (PI) 09/01/2016 - 08/31/2018
Complex Systems Science
Approaches to Addressing Oral Health Disparities
The
overarching aim of this research is to enhance the candidate's ability to address
oral health disparities from a systems epidemiology perspective by developing
expertise in complex systems approaches; specifically, social network analysis,
agent-based modeling, and the conceptualization of network interventions.
Role: Mentor
NIH NCRR UL1TR000117 (PI: Kern) Young (Pilot Grant PI) 08/26/2015 - 03/25/2017
Pilot Grant from University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Sexual and Drug Co-Usage Partnerships among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM): A Pilot Study on the Influence of Mobile Apps and on the Spatial Distribution of Partner-seeking MSM
The goals of this pilot project were to 1) map the distribution of MSM using social networking applications, or “apps”, to form sexual relationships in Lexington, KY and 2) describe the role that apps play in facilitating higher risk sexual relationships (e.g., unprotected sex, injection drug use, sharing of injection equipment).
Role: Consultant
NIMH R43MH106361 (MPIs: Young and Hopkins) 09/09/2015 - 03/08/2017
Semi-Automated Processing of Interconnected Dyads Using Entity Resolution (SPIDER)
The overarching aim of this SBIR project was to develop and verify a new software system that will assist researchers in more rigorously constructing social networks.
Role: Consultant
Pilot Grant Program (Young)
University of Kentucky College of Public Health 05/1/2015 - 04/30/2016
Improving methodology for risk network
research among populations at high risk for bloodborne infection
The overarching aim of this study was to establish a more valid and reliable
methodology to study the social networks of populations at high risk for sexual
and bloodborne infections.
Role: Consultant
NIDA R25DA031608 (Fisher) 09/01/2014 - 03/31/2016
NIH/NIDA/Fordham University
Training Program in HIV and Substance Abuse
Prevention Research Ethics
Ethical considerations for the collection of
geographic data for HIV prevention research among illicit drug users.
The major goals of this project were to (1) describe the privacy and
confidentiality concerns associated with different approaches used to collect
geographic information from drug using populations in HIV-prevention and substance-use
research and (2) assess how these concerns may influence the validity of
participant responses.
Role: Pilot Grant PI
P30AI094189 Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (Yang) 06/01/2014 - 05/31/2015
Ecological momentary assessment of alcohol use and sexual behaviors among men who have sex with men in Baltimore, MD
This project aimed to (1) assess the feasibility of using smartphones to collect EMA data of alcohol use and sexual behaviors among MSM in Baltimore, (2) describe real-time and daily social and physical environment of alcohol use and sex, and (3) determine modifiable risk factors of alcohol use that can predict risky sexual behaviors.
Role: Consultant
NIDA R01DA035098 (Pollini) 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2015
OTC
syringe sales to prevent HIV in underserved areas of inland California
California
Senate Bill 41, which went into effect on January 1, 2012, was designed to
expand sterile syringe access by allowing pharmacies to sell up to 30 syringes
without a prescription. The goal of this project was to evaluate the
implementation of SB41 in the inland counties of California's Central Valley.
Role: Co-Investigator
R01DA030253 (Lewis) 09/01/2010 - 07/31/2015
Post Exposure Prophylaxis among IDU
Syringe Customers - Pharmacy Pilot Intervention
The purpose of this research was to evaluate a structural pilot
intervention which aims to expand pharmacy services to include provision of
non-occupational HIV post exposure prophylaxis (nPEP) and risk reduction information
to injection drug users (IDUs) who buy syringes at two pharmacies registered
with the New York State Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP), a program
allowing pharmacies to sell syringes without a prescription to help reduce the
spread of HIV among IDUs.
Role: Consultant
R01DA024598 (Havens) 04/05/2008 - 01/31/2014
Rural Drug Using Social Networks and
HIV
The goal of the study was to examine the prevalence, incidence and risk
factors for HIV and other blood borne infections (BBIs) such as hepatitis B
(HBV) and C (HCV) among rural Appalachian drug users using social network
analysis and multilevel modeling.
Role: Consultant
CFAR P30A136214 (Wagner) 01/01/2012 - 12/31/2012
Personal networks of FSW-IDUs and their male partners: Broadening the context of HIV prevention.
The goal of this pilot development project, awarded to junior investigators as a sub-award by the Center for AIDS Research at UC San Diego, was to develop and test a mixed methods interview for collecting personal social network data among female sex workers and their primary male sexual partners. This project developed the interview instrument and conducted interviews with a sample of 20 couples, which were used to refine the instrument and conduct preliminary analyses.
Role: Co-Investigator
NIDA T32DA023356 (Strathdee) 07/01/2011 - 08/31/2012
Training Program in Substance Use, HIV and Related Infections
Institutional training program to support predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows conducting research in substance use, HIV, and other co-occurring conditions.
Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
NIDA R25DA025571 (Strathdee) 04/01/2011 - 06/30/2011
Center for HIV/AIDS Minority Pipeline in Substance Abuse Research (CHAMPS)
A short-term, intensive internship program for under-represented scholars who are poised to become the next generation of prevention scientists with expertise in substance abuse, HIV and co-occurring conditions.
Role: Fellow
NIDA T32DA007292 (Latimer) 6/30/2008 - 02/04/2011
Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training (DDET) Program
The Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training Program is designed to develop expert scientists in the field of the epidemiology and consequences of drug dependence.
Role: Pre-doctoral Fellow