New Publication in the Journal of Anthropology
Percentage of households using
Recent Article in Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Network Firewall Dynamics and the Subsaturation Stabilization of HIV Bilal Khan, Kirk Dombrowski, Mohamed Saad, Katherine McLean, and Samuel Friedman Abstract In 2001, Friedman et al. conjectured the existence of a “firewall effect” in which individuals who are infected with HIV, but remain in a state of low
New Publication in Journal of Substance Use and Misuse
A Re-examination of Connectivity Trends via Exponential Random Graph Modeling in Two IDU Risk Networks SUBSTANCE USE AND MISUSE December 2013, Vol. 48, No. 14 , Pages 1485-1497 Kirk Dombrowski Bilal Khan Katherine McLean Ric Curtis Travis Wendel Evan Misshula Samuel Friedman Abstract: Patterns of risk in injecting drug user (IDU) networks—including co-use, equipment
Recent publication in Advances in Anthropology
Assessing Respondent Driven Sampling for Network Studies in Ethnographic Contexts Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Joshua Moses, Emily Channell, and Evan Misshula Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) is generally considered a methodology for recruiting “hard-to-reach” populations for social science research. More recently, Wejnert has argued that RDS analysis can
Funding awarded for Hepatitis C Research
PI: Holly Hagan (NYU) Investigators: Bilal Khan and Kirk Dombrowski National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIH) has awarded funding to the “Addressing HCV-related hepatocellular carcinoma: the current and future epidemics” project (R01 DA034637-01). Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related deaths now exceed HIV-related deaths in the US. Throughout the world,
New Publication in World Journal of AIDS
Topological and Historical Considerations for Infectious Disease Transmission among Injecting Drug Users in Bushwick, Brooklyn (USA) Kirk Dombrowski, Richard Curtis, Samuel Friedman, and Bilal Khan Recent interest by physicists in social networks and disease transmission factors has prompted debate over the topology of degree distributions in sexual
Recent publication on Methamphetamine Use in New York City
Estimating the Size of the Methamphetamine-Using Population in New York City Using Network Sampling Techniques Kirk Dombrowski, Bilal Khan, Travis Wendel, Katherine McLean, Evan Misshula, and Ric Curtis As part of a recent study of the dynamics of the retail market for methamphetamine use in New York