Associate Professor
BA, University of Michigan, 1989; MPH, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 1996; PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 2000
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Epidemiology
Infectious Disease
Health, Behavior, and Society
Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program
Dr. Susan Sherman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology who focuses on improving the health of marginalized populations, particularly that of drug users and sex workers. Her research among drug users has largely focused on harm reduction, HIV prevention, economic development, and overdose prevention and response. She has been involved in several large, randomized, peer outreach intervention trials that has aimed to reduce HIV and related risk behaviors among drug users in Thailand, Baltimore, and Pakistan. She is also working to examine the effects of economic empowerment on reducing sexual risk behaviors among sex workers in India. She utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. She is also interested in the relationship between gender norms and sexual risk behaviors among adolescents.
epidemiology, behavioral sciences, sex workers, injection drug users, drug users, economic empowerment, microenterprise, peer outreach interventions, overdose prevention, social networks, Baltimore, Thailand, India
2006 Advising, Mentoring & Teaching Recognitions Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health -
2002 Delta Omega Society -
1997-2000 NIMH Predoctoral Training Grantee, Office of AIDS -
Research Projects
Evaluating a microeconomic intervention for high risk women in India
The current study will examine the effects of a microenterprise intervention on incident HIV and sexually transmitted infections among a sample of street-based sex workers in Chennai, India. Specifcially, the study aims: 1. determine the effect of the POWER intervention on incident HIV/STIs and...
Preventing Rural Thai Methamphetamine Abuse and HIV by Community Mobilization
This revised competing continuation application of R01 DA14702-01 continues our behavioral interventions to reduce adolescent and young adult HIV sexual risks associated with non-injection methamphetamine use in northern Thailand. During the first five years of our grant, we characterized...
The Effects Of New Alcohol Restrictions On Sexual Behaviors Of Thai Underage Youth
The proposed study will explore the effects of a stringent new alcohol control bill in Thailand on HIV risk behaviors among high-risk, poly-drug-using youth. Thailand has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world, ranking 6th for spirits consumption. Youth (aged 15-20) are...
click here for a complete listing of Dr. Sherman's PubMed citations -
Sherman, SG, Srikrishnan AK, Rivett KA, Liu SH, Solomon S, Celentano DD. Acceptability of a microenterprise intervention among female sex workers in Chennai India. AIDS and Behavior (in press). -
Sherman SG, Sutcliffe CG, Srirojn B, Latkin CA, Aramratanna A, Celentano DD (2009). Evaluation of a peer network intervention trial among young methamphetamine users in Chiang Mai Thailand. Social Science and Medicine. 68: 69-79. -
Sherman SG, Spittal P, bte Kamarulzaman A. (2008). Women and harm reduction: Spanning the Globe. Women and drugs across the globe: A need for action. International Journal of Drug Policy. 19: 97–98. Guest Editor of issue. -
Sherman SG, Cheng Y, Kral AH. (2007). Prevalence and correlates of opiate overdose among young injection drug users in Baltimore, Maryland. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 88(2-3):182-187. -
Sherman SG, German D, Cheng Y, Marks M, Bailey-Kloche M. (2006). The evaluation of the JEWEL Project: an innovative economic empowerment and HIV prevention intervention study targeting drug using women involved in prostitution. AIDS Care. 18(1), 1-11.
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