Event Description
Title talk: Multi-level Risk Factors for HIV
Prevention and Care Among Black
Sexual Minority Men: The N2 Cohort
Study
Speaker: Dustin T. Duncan, ScD, Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit and Director of the Columbia Spatial Epidemiology Lab at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
This talk will
describe the design, sampling methods, data collection, and main findings
to-date of the ongoing 'Neighborhoods and Networks (N2) Cohort Study' including
the recently launched follow-up study to the Neighborhoods and Networks (N2)
study, which we refer to as N2 Part 2 (N2P2). N2 employs a prospective
longitudinal design. The original sample includes Black sexual minority men (SMM) participants in
Chicago recruited via respondent-driven sampling and assessed every six months
over two years of follow-up. Participants enrolled in Jackson, New Orleans and
Baton Rouge were originally recruited through existing health and community
services and assessed every six months over one year of follow-up. Mobility
within and between neighborhoods was assessed using global positioning system
(GPS) technology, making the N2 study the largest GPS-based study of HIV
disparities in any SMM population. Social and sexual networks among Black SMM
were studied through egocentric network inventories as well as newer methods of
creating meso-level networks that involve social media (Facebook) and mobile
phone contacts.
We will also discuss how the N2P2 study will apply an
observational-implementation hybrid design in order to help us achieve findings
that support rapid translation, a critical priority among populations such as
Black SMM that experience long-standing inequities, with regards to HIV and
other health-related outcomes.
Dr. Duncan is an
internationally recognized Social and Spatial Epidemiologist. His research
broadly seeks to understand how social and contextual factors especially
neighborhood characteristics influence population health. Dr. Duncan’s
intersectional research focuses on Black cisgender gay, bisexual and other
sexual minority men and transgender women of color. His work appears in leading
public health, epidemiology, medical, geography, criminology, demography, and
psychology journals. Working in collaborations with scholars across the world,
he has over 200 high-impact articles (120 first or senior-authored), book
chapters and books cited over 8,100 times; his research has appeared in major
media outlets including U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, The
New York Times and CNN.
Dr. Duncan’s recent
work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, the HIV Prevention Trials Network, the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, the Verizon Foundation, and the Aetna Foundation. He
has received several early career and distinguished scientific contribution,
mentoring and leadership awards including from the National Academy of Medicine
(NAM), the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and the
Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). |
