Dr. Steffanie A. Strathdee
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Steffanie A. Strathdee is Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, Harold Simon Professor and Chief of the Division of Global Public Health in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Strathdee is an infectious disease epidemiologist who has spent the last two decades focusing on HIV prevention in underserved, marginalized populations in developed and developing countries, including injection drug users, men having sex with men and sex workers. In the last decade, she has published over 300 peer-reviewed publications on HIV prevention and the natural history of HIV and related infections. Currently, she is engaged in research projects in a number of HIV prevention projects in international settings including Mexico, Brazil, Canada and Afghanistan. She also leads three NIH-funded studies of HIV risk behaviors among drug users and sex workers on the Mexico-US border, directs a Fogarty-funded Global Health Program Frameworks grant and has led a binational USAID-funded cross-border HIV prevention training program partnership between academic institutions in San Diego and Tijuana.
Selected Peer-reviewed Publications (of 325): Strathdee SA, Mausbach B, Lozada R, Staines-Orozco H, Semple SJ, Abramovitz D, Fraga-Vallejo M, Orozovich P, de la Torre A, Amaro H, Martinez G, Magis-Rodríguez C, Patterson TL. 2009. Predictors of sexual risk reduction among Mexican female sex workers enrolled in a behavioral intervention study. JAIDS, 51. S42-S46, supplement 1. |