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

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