A Novel Formalization of Peer Influence Incorporating Both Self- and Alter-Directed Sentiment and Disposition Kirk Dombrowski (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Bilal Khan (City University of New York) Peer influence has received considerable attention from social network analysis, and more broadly. The availability of topologies that go beyond ego networks
The article, "Mental and substance use disorders from early adolescence to young adulthood among indigenous young people: final diagnostic results from an 8-year panel study", was recently published online first at Social Psychiatry and Epidemiology. Les Whitbeck, Kelley Sittner Hartshorn, Devan Crawford, Melissa Walls, Kari
Culture Politics: The Story of Native Land Claims in Alaska This book traces the history of indigenous land claims in Southeast Alaska. Based on three years of residence and over two decades of research and writing, Culture Politics lays out how Native land claims in Alaska
Abstract Despite the epidemiological reality of ongoing HIV infection in Puerto Rico, the public health infrastructure related to HIV/AIDS and substance abuse in the territory is severely lacking, as reflected in alarmingly high rates of morbidity/mortality among people who inject drugs (PWID). Because of this, HIV
In December 2013, Robin Gautier of Duke University submitted and NIH application to work at the REACH Lab from Sept 2014-August 2016. Her project will use advanced social network analysis techniques to investigate suicide trends in Inuit communities. As the tenth leading cause of death among
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
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,
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