In November 2013, REACH PIs Dombrowski and Whitbeck applied to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) for funding to undertakes a national-level survey of HIV and HIV-risk among homeless and unstably housed young people, aged 14-24, in the United States. Its overarching goal is
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
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
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
Theory, Measurement and Hard Times: Some Issues for HIV/AIDS Research Economic and political instability and related “big events” are widespread throughout the globe. Although they sometimes lead to epidemic HIV outbreaks, sometimes they do not—and we do not understand why. Current behavioural theories do not adequately