Event Description
All are welcome to watch the dissertation defense of Nguyen Tran, MPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Dornsife School of Public Health.
Description: Risk compensation due to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
initiation has been theorized to increase rates of bacterial sexually
transmitted infections (STI) among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex
with men (GBM) in Canada, but results are conflicting. This is, in part, due to
the methodological challenges of assessing how PrEP use
facilitate behavioral changes for other prevention strategies such as condom
use, subsequently increasing bacterial STI risk. Thus, this dissertation
examined whether a) time-varying PrEP
uptake affected cumulative bacterial STI incidence, b) condomless anal sex
mediated the relation between PrEP
uptake and bacterial STI, and c) characteristics of sexual partnerships were
associated with elevated bacterial STI incidence among GBM in the era of PrEP.
Dissertation committee co-chairs:
Seth Welles and Neal Goldstein
For Zoom access, please contact Nancy.
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