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Tatara E, Ozik J, Pollack HA, Schneider JA, Friedman SR, Harawa NT, Boodram B, Salisbury-Afshar E, Hotton A, Ouellet L, Mackesy-Amiti ME, Collier N, Macal CM. Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Dec 2;7(12):e2448732. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.48732. PubMed PMID: 39656460; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11632540.
Williams LD, van Heerden A, Friedman SR, Chibi B, Memela P, Rodriguez WA, Joseph P. Comparison of a novel expanded social network recruitment intervention with risk network recruitment to HIV testing: locating undiagnosed cases in South Africa. AIDS. 2024 Nov 1;38(13):1861-1865. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003976. Epub 2024 Jul 2. PubMed PMID: 38959096.
Friedman SR, Rossi D, Perlman DC. Historical and theoretical roots of the big events framework. Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Nov;133:104606. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104606. Epub 2024 Oct 7. PubMed PMID: 39378779; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11540725.
Williams LD, van Heerden A, Friedman SR, Chibi B, Rodriguez WA, Memela P. Changes in Stigma and Social Support among Participants in a Randomized Trial of a Novel Expanded Social Network-based HIV Testing Intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. AIDS Behav. 2024 Aug;28(8):2619-2629. doi: 10.1007/s10461-024-04379-y. Epub 2024 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 38833064.
Jirmanus LZ, Valenti RM, Griest Schwartzman EA, Simon-Ortiz SA, Frey LI, Friedman SR, Fullilove MT. Too Many Deaths, Too Many Left Behind: A People's External Review of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-19 Pandemic Response. AJPM Focus. 2024 Aug;3(4):100207. doi: 10.1016/j.focus.2024.100207. eCollection 2024 Aug. PubMed PMID: 38770235; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11103433.
Buchanan AL, Hernández-Ramírez RU, Lok JJ, Vermund SH, Friedman SR, Forastiere L, Spiegelman D. Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies. Epidemiology. 2024 Jul 1;35(4):481-488. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001742. Epub 2024 May 6. PubMed PMID: 38709023.
Kostaki EG, Roussos S, Kefala AM, Limnaios S, Psichogiou M, Papachristou E, Nikolopoulos G, Flountzi E, Friedman SR, Lagiou P, Hatzakis A, Sypsa V, Magiorkinis G, Beloukas A, Paraskevis D. Molecular epidemiology of HIV among people who inject drugs after the HIV-outbreak in Athens, Greece: Evidence for a 'slow burn' outbreak. Infect Genet Evol. 2024 Jul;121:105597. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2024.105597. Epub 2024 Apr 23. PubMed PMID: 38663466.
Rivera BD, Friedman SR. What would it really take to solve the overdose epidemic in the United States?. Int J Drug Policy. 2024 Jun;128:104435. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104435. Epub 2024 May 9. PubMed PMID: 38729061; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11220856.
Williams LD, McKetta SC, Stall R, Beane S, Ibragimov U, Tempalski B, Hall HI, Johnson AS, Wang G, Friedman SR. Structural Discrimination against and Structural Support for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People as a Predictor of Late HIV Diagnoses among Black Men who Have Sex with Men. J Urban Health. 2024 Apr;101(2):426-438. doi: 10.1007/s11524-023-00818-8. Epub 2024 Feb 28. PubMed PMID: 38418647; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11052741.
Buchanan AL, Hernández-Ramírez RU, Lok JJ, Vermund SH, Friedman SR, Forastiere L, Spiegelman D. Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-Randomized Studies. medRxiv. 2024 Feb 1;. doi: 10.1101/2022.03.24.22272909. PubMed PMID: 38352598; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10863001.
Hernández-Ramírez RU, Spiegelman D, Lok JJ, Forastiere L, Friedman SR, Latkin CA, Vermund SH, Buchanan AL. Overall, Direct, Spillover, and Composite Effects of Components of a Peer-Driven Intervention Package on Injection Risk Behavior Among People Who Inject Drugs in the HPTN 037 Study. AIDS Behav. 2024 Jan;28(1):225-237. doi: 10.1007/s10461-023-04213-x. Epub 2023 Nov 7. PubMed PMID: 37932493; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11062514.
Williams LD, van Heerden A, Ntinga X, Nikolopoulos GK, Paraskevis D, Friedman SR. Pilot Testing Two Versions of a Social Network Intervention to Increase HIV Testing and Case-finding among Men in South Africa's Generalized HIV Epidemic. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Dec 30;21(1). doi: 10.3390/ijerph21010054. PubMed PMID: 38248519; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10815189.
Lee Y, Buchanan AL, Ogburn EL, Friedman SR, Halloran ME, Katenka NV, Wu J, Nikolopoulos GK. Finding influential subjects in a network using a causal framework. Biometrics. 2023 Dec;79(4):3715-3727. doi: 10.1111/biom.13841. Epub 2023 Feb 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 36788358; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10423748.
Lee T, Buchanan AL, Katenka NV, Forastiere L, Halloran ME, Friedman SR, Nikolopoulos G. Estimating Causal Effects of HIV Prevention Interventions with Interference in Network-based Studies among People Who Inject Drugs. Ann Appl Stat. 2023 Sep;17(3):2165-2191. doi: 10.1214/22-aoas1713. Epub 2023 Sep 7. PubMed PMID: 38250709; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10798667.
Friedman SR, Smyrnov P, Vasylyeva TI. Will the Russian war in Ukraine unleash larger epidemics of HIV, TB and associated conditions and diseases in Ukraine?. Harm Reduct J. 2023 Sep 1;20(1):119. doi: 10.1186/s12954-023-00855-1. Review. PubMed PMID: 37658448; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10472698.
Friedman SR, Perlman DC, Paraskevis D, Feldman J. Sociopolitical Diagnostic Tools to Understand National and Local Response Capabilities and Vulnerabilities to Epidemics and Guide Research into How to Improve the Global Response to Pathogens. Pathogens. 2023 Aug 8;12(8). doi: 10.3390/pathogens12081023. PubMed PMID: 37623983; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10457759.
Jenkins WD, Friedman SR, Hurt CB, Korthuis PT, Feinberg J, Del Toro-Mejias LM, Walters S, Seal DW, Fredericksen RJ, Westergaard R, Miller WC, Go VF, Schneider J, Giurcanu M. Variation in HIV Transmission Behaviors Among People Who Use Drugs in Rural US Communities. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Aug 1;6(8):e2330225. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.30225. PubMed PMID: 37603331; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10442709.
Yakovleva A, Kovalenko G, Redlinger M, Smyrnov P, Tymets O, Korobchuk A, Kotlyk L, Kolodiazieva A, Podolina A, Cherniavska S, Antonenko P, Strathdee SA, Friedman SR, Goodfellow I, Wertheim JO, Bortz E, Meredith L, Vasylyeva TI. Hepatitis C Virus in people with experience of injection drug use following their displacement to Southern Ukraine before 2020. BMC Infect Dis. 2023 Jul 3;23(1):446. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08423-5. PubMed PMID: 37400776; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10316605.
Guarino H, Frank D, Quinn K, Kim D, Gile K, Ruggles K, Friedman SR, Mateu-Gelabert P. Syndemic factors associated with non-fatal overdose among young opioid users in New York City. Front Public Health. 2023;11:1195657. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1195657. eCollection 2023. PubMed PMID: 37435512; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10332320.
Frank D, Krawczyk N, Arshonsky J, Bragg MA, Friedman SR, Bunting AM. COVID-19-Related Changes to Drug-Selling Networks and Their Effects on People Who Use Illicit Opioids. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2023 Mar;84(2):222-229. doi: 10.15288/jsad.21-00438. Epub 2022 Sep 12. PubMed PMID: 36971722; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10171252.
Kovalenko G, Yakovleva A, Smyrnov P, Redlinger M, Tymets O, Korobchuk A, Kolodiazieva A, Podolina A, Cherniavska S, Skaathun B, Smith LR, Strathdee SA, Wertheim JO, Friedman SR, Bortz E, Goodfellow I, Meredith L, Vasylyeva TI. Phylodynamics and migration data help describe HIV transmission dynamics in internally displaced people who inject drugs in Ukraine. PNAS Nexus. 2023 Mar;2(3):pgad008. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad008. eCollection 2023 Mar. PubMed PMID: 36896134; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9991454.
Buchanan AL, Katenka N, Lee Y, Wu J, Pantavou K, Friedman SR, Halloran ME, Marshall BDL, Forastiere L, Nikolopoulos GK. Methods for Assessing Spillover in Network-Based Studies of HIV/AIDS Prevention among People Who Use Drugs. Pathogens. 2023 Feb 15;12(2). doi: 10.3390/pathogens12020326. PubMed PMID: 36839598; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9967280.
Walters SM, Frank D, Felsher M, Jaiswal J, Fletcher S, Bennett AS, Friedman SR, Ouellet LJ, Ompad DC, Jenkins W, Pho MT. How the rural risk environment underpins hepatitis C risk: Qualitative findings from rural southern Illinois, United States. Int J Drug Policy. 2023 Feb;112:103930. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103930. Epub 2023 Jan 13. PubMed PMID: 36641816; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9974910.
Walters SM, Felsher M, Frank D, Jaiswal J, Townsend T, Muncan B, Bennett AS, Friedman SR, Jenkins W, Pho MT, Fletcher S, Ompad DC. I Don't Believe a Person Has to Die When Trying to Get High: Overdose Prevention and Response Strategies in Rural Illinois. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 16;20(2). doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021648. PubMed PMID: 36674402; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9864395.
Buchanan AL, Park CJ, Bessey S, Goedel WC, Murray EJ, Friedman SR, Halloran ME, Katenka NV, Marshall BDL. Spillover benefit of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: evaluating the importance of effect modification using an agent-based model. Epidemiol Infect. 2022 Oct 28;150:e192. doi: 10.1017/S0950268822001650. PubMed PMID: 36305040; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9723998.
Friedman SR, Perlman DC, DiClemente RJ. Editorial: The outbreak and sequelae of the increase in opioid use in the United States, Canada, and beyond. Front Sociol. 2022;7:1023531. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.1023531. eCollection 2022. PubMed PMID: 36134361; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9483207.
Ezell JM, Olson B, Walters SM, Friedman SR, Ouellet L, Pho MT. A sociology of empathy and shared understandings: Contextualizing beliefs and attitudes on why people use opioids. Rural Sociology. 2022 September; 87(3):1053-1087. doi: 10.1111/ruso.12440..
Friedman SR, Williams LD, Jordan AE, Walters S, Perlman DC, Mateu-Gelabert P, Nikolopoulos GK, Khan MR, Peprah E, Ezell J. Toward a Theory of the Underpinnings and Vulnerabilities of Structural Racism: Looking Upstream from Disease Inequities among People Who Use Drugs. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 17;19(12). doi: 10.3390/ijerph19127453. Review. PubMed PMID: 35742699; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9224240.
Zang X, Goedel WC, Bessey SE, Lurie MN, Galea S, Galvani AP, Friedman SR, Nosyk B, Marshall BDL. The impact of syringe services program closure on the risk of rebound HIV outbreaks among people who inject drugs: a modeling study. AIDS. 2022 May 1;36(6):881-888. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003199. Epub 2022 Feb 24. PubMed PMID: 35212666; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9081164.
Walters SM, Bolinski RS, Almirol E, Grundy S, Fletcher S, Schneider J, Friedman SR, Ouellet LJ, Ompad DC, Jenkins W, Pho MT. Structural and community changes during COVID-19 and their effects on overdose precursors among rural people who use drugs: a mixed-methods analysis. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2022 Apr 25;17(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s13722-022-00303-8. PubMed PMID: 35468860; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9037978.
Walters SM, Frank D, Van Ham B, Jaiswal J, Muncan B, Earnshaw V, Schneider J, Friedman SR, Ompad DC. PrEP Care Continuum Engagement Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Rural and Urban Differences in Stigma and Social Infrastructure. AIDS Behav. 2022 Apr;26(4):1308-1320. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03488-2. Epub 2021 Oct 9. PubMed PMID: 34626265; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8501360.
Arshonsky J, Krawczyk N, Bunting AM, Frank D, Friedman SR, Bragg MA. Informal Coping Strategies Among People Who Use Opioids During COVID-19: Thematic Analysis of Reddit Forums. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Mar 3;6(3):e32871. doi: 10.2196/32871. PubMed PMID: 35084345; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8896559.
Friedman SR, Jordan AE, Perlman DC, Nikolopoulos GK, Mateu-Gelabert P. Emerging Zoonotic Infections, Social Processes and Their Measurement and Enhanced Surveillance to Improve Zoonotic Epidemic Responses: A "Big Events" Perspective. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 17;19(2). doi: 10.3390/ijerph19020995. PubMed PMID: 35055817; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8776232.
Friedman SR, Williams LD, Guarino H, Mateu-Gelabert P, Krawczyk N, Hamilton L, Walters SM, Ezell JM, Khan M, Di Iorio J, Yang LH, Earnshaw VA. The stigma system: How sociopolitical domination, scapegoating, and stigma shape public health. J Community Psychol. 2022 Jan;50(1):385-408. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22581. Epub 2021 Jun 11. PubMed PMID: 34115390; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8664901.
Williams LD, Tempalski B, Hall HI, Johnson AS, Wang G, Friedman SR. Trajectories of and disparities in HIV prevalence among Black, White, and Hispanic/Latino High Risk Heterosexuals in 89 U.S. Metropolitan statistical areas, 1992-2013. Ann Epidemiol. 2021 Dec;64:140-148. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.08.015. Epub 2021 Aug 22. PubMed PMID: 34433105; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8747890.
Cerdá M, Krawczyk N, Hamilton L, Rudolph KE, Friedman SR, Keyes KM. A Critical Review of the Social and Behavioral Contributions to the Overdose Epidemic. Annu Rev Public Health. 2021 Apr 1;42:95-114. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-090419-102727. Epub 2021 Nov 30. Review. PubMed PMID: 33256535; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8675278.
Friedman SR, Mateu-Gelabert P, Nikolopoulos GK, Cerdá M, Rossi D, Jordan AE, Townsend T, Khan MR, Perlman DC. Big Events theory and measures may help explain emerging long-term effects of current crises. Glob Public Health. 2021 Aug-Sep;16(8-9):1167-1186. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.1903528. Epub 2021 Apr 11. PubMed PMID: 33843462; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8338763.
Kostaki EG, Limnaios S, Roussos S, Psichogiou M, Nikolopoulos GK, Friedman SR, Antoniadou A, Chini M, Hatzakis A, Sypsa V, Magiorkinis G, Seguin-Devaux C, Paraskevis D. Validation of molecular clock inferred HIV infection ages: Evidence for accurate estimation of infection dates. Infect Genet Evol. 2021 Jul;91:104799. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2021.104799. Epub 2021 Mar 4. PubMed PMID: 33677110.
Tatara E, Schneider J, Quasebarth M, Collier N, Pollack H, Boodram B, Friedman S, Salisbury-Afshar E, Mackesy-Amiti ME, Ozik J. Application of Distributed Agent-based Modeling to Investigate Opioid Use Outcomes in Justice Involved Populations. IEEE Int Symp Parallel Distrib Process Workshops Phd Forum. 2021 Jun;2021:989-997. doi: 10.1109/ipdpsw52791.2021.00157. Epub 2021 Jun 24. PubMed PMID: 35865008; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9297575.
Krawczyk N, Bunting AM, Frank D, Arshonsky J, Gu Y, Friedman SR, Bragg MA. "How will I get my next week's script?" Reactions of Reddit opioid forum users to changes in treatment access in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Int J Drug Policy. 2021 Jun;92:103140. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103140. Epub 2021 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 33558165; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8994991.
Bowman B, Psichogyiou M, Papadopoulou M, Sypsa V, Khanna A, Paraskevis D, Chanos S, Friedman SR, Hatzakis A, Schneider J. Sexual Mixing and HIV Transmission Potential Among Greek Men Who have Sex with Men: Results from SOPHOCLES. AIDS Behav. 2021 Jun;25(6):1935-1945. doi: 10.1007/s10461-020-03123-6. Epub 2021 Feb 8. PubMed PMID: 33555414; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8081711.
Guarino H, Mateu-Gelabert P, Quinn K, Sirikantraporn S, Ruggles KV, Syckes C, Goodbody E, Jessell L, Friedman SR. Adverse Childhood Experiences Predict Early Initiation of Opioid Use Behaviors. Front Sociol. 2021;6:620395. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.620395. eCollection 2021. PubMed PMID: 34055961; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8158934.
Hadjikou A, Pantavou K, Pavlitina E, Pavlopoulou ID, Economou M, Christaki E, Lamnisos D, Kostaki EG, Paraskevis D, Schneider J, Talias M, Friedman SR, Nikolopoulos GK. Sociometric Risk Network Structure, HIV Prevalence, and Drug Injection-Related Norms among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Athens, Greece. Subst Use Misuse. 2021;56(8):1190-1201. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2021.1914103. Epub 2021 May 11. PubMed PMID: 33975493.
Buchanan AL, Bessey S, Goedel WC, King M, Murray EJ, Friedman SR, Halloran ME, Marshall BDL. Disseminated Effects in Agent-Based Models: A Potential Outcomes Framework and Application to Inform Preexposure Prophylaxis Coverage Levels for HIV Prevention. Am J Epidemiol. 2021 May 4;190(5):939-948. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaa239. PubMed PMID: 33128066; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8096482.
Bunting AM, Frank D, Arshonsky J, Bragg MA, Friedman SR, Krawczyk N. Socially-supportive norms and mutual aid of people who use opioids: An analysis of Reddit during the initial COVID-19 pandemic. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 May 1;222:108672. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108672. Epub 2021 Mar 18. PubMed PMID: 33757708; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8057693.
Santaella-Tenorio J, Townsend T, Krawczyk N, Frank D, Friedman SR. Letter on Rocket's et al., manuscript: Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999-2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Apr;34:100820. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100820. eCollection 2021 Apr. PubMed PMID: 33855285; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8027522.
Ibragimov U, Beane S, Friedman SR, Tempalski B, Williams LD, McKetta S, Adimora AA, Wingood GM, Stall RD, Hall HI, Johnson AS, Cooper HLF. Evidence for HIV transmission across key populations: a longitudinal analysis of HIV and AIDS rates among Black people who inject drugs and Black heterosexuals in 84 large U.S. metropolitan areas, 2008-2016. Ann Epidemiol. 2021 Mar;55:69-77.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.10.003. Epub 2020 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 33065266; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7923960.
Adams JW, Khan MR, Bessey SE, Friedman SR, McMahon JM, Lurie MN, Galea S, Marshall BDL. Preexposure prophylaxis strategies for African-American women affected by mass incarceration. AIDS. 2021 Mar 1;35(3):453-462. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002749. PubMed PMID: 33170818; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7855567.
Williams LD, Stall R, Tempalski B, Jefferson K, Smith J, Ibragimov U, Hall HI, Satcher Johnson A, Wang G, Purcell DW, Cooper HLF, Friedman SR. Trajectories of and disparities in HIV prevalence among Black, white, and Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men in 86 large U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, 1992-2013. Ann Epidemiol. 2021 Feb;54:52-63. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.09.004. Epub 2020 Sep 18. PubMed PMID: 32950653; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7932556.
Hadjikou A, Pavlopoulou ID, Pantavou K, Georgiou A, Williams LD, Christaki E, Voskarides K, Lavranos G, Lamnisos D, Pouget ER, Friedman SR, Nikolopoulos GK. Drug Injection-Related Norms and High-Risk Behaviors of People Who Inject Drugs in Athens, Greece. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2021 Feb;37(2):130-138. doi: 10.1089/AID.2020.0050. Epub 2020 Nov 26. PubMed PMID: 33126818; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8020521.
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