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Dustin T. Duncan is the Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he directs the Columbia Spatial Epidemiology Lab and co-directs the department’s Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit. Dr. Duncan is a Social and Spatial Epidemiologist, studying how specific neighborhood characteristics influence population health and health disparities. His research has a strong domestic (U.S.) focus, but recent work is beginning to span across the globe (including studies in Paris, London, and Nairobi). Dr. Duncan’s work appears in leading public health, epidemiology, medical, geography, criminology, demography, and psychology journals. Working in collaborations with scholars across the world, Dr. Duncan has over 250 high-impact articles (>120 first or senior-authored), book chapters and books cited over 9,200 times; Dr. Duncan’s research has appeared in major media outlets including U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN. Dr. Duncan’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the HIV Prevention Trials Network, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Verizon Foundation, and the Aetna Foundation.

Principal Investigator, Cannabis Use, PrEP and HIV Transmission Risk Among Black MSM in Chicago. Active

Principal Investigator, Characterizing Sleep, ART Adherence and Viral Suppression Among Black Sexual Minority Men. Active

Principal Investigator, Estimating the Impact of a Multilevel, Multicomponent Intervention to Increase Uptake of HIV Testing and Biomedical HIV Prevention among African-American/Black Gay, Bisexual and Same-gender Loving Men. Active

Principal Investigator, Impact of Social Cohesion and Social Capital in PrEP Uptake and Adherence Among Transwomen of Color. Active

Principal Investigator, MyPEEPs Mobile LITE: Limited Interaction Efficacy Trial of MyPeeps Mobile to Reduce HIV Incidence and Better Understand the Epidemiology of HIV among YMSM. Active

Principal Investigator, Promoting Social Capital for Increased HIV Prevention and Care Among Sexual Minority Men in Nairobi, Kenya. Active

Principal Investigator, Activity Space Neighborhoods, Drug Use and HIV Among Black MSM in the Jackson, MS MSA. Completed

Principal Investigator, Feasibility Assessment of Real-Time Geospatial Methods to Explore Social and Spatial Contexts of Substance Use and HIV Risk in YMSM. Completed

Principal Investigator, Formative Research on How to Deliver Alcohol Interventions in the Context of HIV Prevention and Care among Black Sexual Minority Men. Completed

Principal Investigator, Health App Use among Verizon Users. Completed

Principal Investigator, Impact of Neighborhoods and Networks on HIV Prevention and Care Behaviors Among Black MSM in the Deep South. Completed

Principal Investigator, Neighborhood Activity Space, Drugs and HIV Risk Among Black MSM in the Deep South. Completed

Principal Investigator, Neighborhoods, Mobility and HIV Among Young MSM. Completed

Principal Investigator, PrEP Uptake and Adherence among Young Black MSM: Neighborhood and Network Determinants. Completed

Feelemyer J, Duncan DT, Akhidenor N, Mazumdar M, Irvine NM, Scheidell JD, Brewer RA, Turpin RE, Hucks-Ortiz C, Dyer TV, Cleland CM, Mayer KH, Khan MR (2024).
Police harassment and psychiatric, sexual, and substance use risk among Black sexual minority men and Black transgender women in the HIV Prevention Trials 061 cohort
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities [Epub 2024 Apr 12]. doi: 10.1007/s40615-024-01909-1.

Shrader CH, Duncan DT, Knox J, Chen YT, Driver R, Russell JS, Moody RL, Kanamori M, Durrell M, Hanson H, Eavou R, Goedel WC, Schneider JA (2024).
A network science approach to sex-polydrug use among Black sexually minoritized men and transgender women: The N2 cohort study
Prevention Science [Epub 2024 Feb 19]. doi: 10.1007/s11121-023-01639-6.

Ross EJ, Williams RS, Viamonte M, Reynolds JM, Duncan DT, Paul RH, Carrico AW (2023).
Overamped: Stimulant use and HIV pathogenesis
Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 20 (6), 321-332. doi: 10.1007/s11904-023-00672-y.

Ransome Y, Luan H, Song I, Duncan DT (2023).
Church closings were associated with higher COVID-19 infection rates: Implications for community health equity
Journal of Urban Health, 100 (6), 1258-1263. doi: 10.1007/s11524-023-00791-2. PMCID: PMC10728374.

Knox JR, Dolotina B, Moline T, Matthews I, Durrell M, Hanson H, Almirol E, Hotton A, Pagkas-Bather J, Chen YT, English D, Manuzak J, Rower JE, Miles C, Millar B, Jean-Louis G, Rendina HJ, Martins SS, Grov C, Hasin DS, Carrico AW, Shoptaw S, Schneider JA, Duncan DT (2023).
HIV prevention and care among Black cisgender sexual minority men and transgender women: Protocol for an HIV status-neutral cohort study using an observational-implementation hybrid approach
JMIR Research Protocols, 12, e48548. doi: 10.2196/48548. PMCID: PMC10724817.