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Social Network Analysis

Overview:

Social network analysis is a technique that goes beyond sociology to influence everything from network science more generally, to epidemiology, to systems theory approaches throughout medicine.

The REACH Lab has advanced epidemiological science through the creation of the MABUSE simulation platform, a large agent based network simulator capable of modeling HIV and HCV co-infection dynamics across multiple network layers, and across a range of risk scenarios. More recently we have begun work on two network data collection techniques using smart phones on the one hand (ODIN), and tablet devices on the other (SNAPT). Together, these new software implementations will significantly improve social science network data collection in the field.

Recent Blog Posts for Social Network Analysis

The RDAR Symposium on Substance Use Research will be held virtually this year on NOVEMBER 9-13, 2020 The Symposium will be co-hosted

REACH researcher Roberto Abadie recently led a new publication on establishing trust among people who inject drugs when researching HIV

Memory Manda came to the University of Nebraska in January 2018 as a recipient of the National Institute of Health

Since 2014, REACH researchers have been working on ground-breaking investigations into rural injection drug use in Puerto Rico. With the lab's community

Last week, an article about my research, written by Joseph Brean, appeared in the Canadian newspaper The National Post. Considering

REACH directors Kirk Dombrowski and Bilal Khan recently contributed to a paper published online at IEEE. The article titled "Evolutionary Game Theory

Funded Projects:

Funding for network-based research at the REACH Lab includes “Injection Drug User Network Topologies and HIV Stabilization Dynamics”  NIDA RC1 DA028476-01, “Network Topological Factors Affecting Long-term Stabilization of HIV Rates Among Injecting Drug Users” National Science Foundation BCS-0752680, “Addressing HCV-related hepatocellular carcinoma: the current and future epidemics” (PI Holly Hagan, NYU) NIDA R01 DA034637, “Applying Behavioral-Ecological Network Models to Enhance Distributed Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio” National Science Foundation AST-1443985, “Towards a cellphone-based infrastructure for harvesting dynamic interaction network data” National Science Foundation, SMA-1338485, “REU Site: Undergraduate Research Opportunities to Broaden Participation in Minority Health Research” National Science Foundation SMA-1461132, “Modeling Social Behavior via Dynamic Network Interaction” NIGMS R01 GM118427.