Danielle C. Ompad, PhD
CDUHR - Deputy Director and Associate Director, Transdisciplinary Research Methods Core
NYU School of Global Public Health - Professor of Epidemiology
NYU School of Global Public Health - Professor of Epidemiology
Email: dco2@nyu.edu
Education
PhD, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public HealthMHS, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
BS, Biology, Bowie State University
Research Interests
PWUDs, PWIDs, HIV and HCV care cascades, club drugs, cannabis, natural history, social determinants, drug cessation, Eastern Europe/Central Asia BIO
Danielle Ompad is the Deputy Director for CDUHR and Associate Core Director of CDUHR’s Transdisciplinary Research Methods Core. She is also a Professor of Epidemiology at NYU’s School of Global Public Health. Dr. Ompad is an infectious disease epidemiologist with extensive experience in design, conduct, and analysis of community-based cross-sectional and prospective studies. Her research is focused on the health and wellbeing of people living in urban settings, especially communities that are highly marginalized and vulnerable. Many of these communities have high rates of heroin, crack, and/or cocaine use and related harms. Her research is underpinned by a harm reduction perspective, i.e., reducing the negative consequences associated with highly stigmatized drug use and sexual behavior and has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. With respect to drug use, her work has spanned the entire natural history of drug use – from initiation to cessation, with particular attention paid to risk for infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis B and C, and STIs. Most recently, she has been studying use of new marijuana products, marijuana edibles packaging, and drug use among construction workers. Projects
Principal Investigator, Application of a Syndemic Framework to HPV and HSV Infection in Emergent Adult Men. Completed
Principal Investigator, Feasibility of PrEP for Persons Who Inject Amphetamines in New York City and Rural Illinois. Completed
Principal Investigator, HIV Research Capacity Building in the Philippines. Completed
Principal Investigator, Heroin Cessation and HIV Risk: A Case-Control Study. Completed
Principal Investigator, New Marijuana Products: Implications for Sexual Effects and Sexual Risk Behavior. Completed
Principal Investigator, Testing a Model of Resilience to Develop an Intervention for Healthy Aging in Older HIV-Seropositive Adults. Completed
Publications
Recent
Salnikova A, Makarenko O, Sereda Y, Kiriazova T, Lunze K, DeHovitz J, Ompad DC (2025).
Depression among people living with tuberculosis and tuberculosis/HIV coinfection in Ukraine: A cross-sectional study
Global Health Action, 18 (1), 2448894. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2448894. PMCID: PMC11827038.
Depression among people living with tuberculosis and tuberculosis/HIV coinfection in Ukraine: A cross-sectional study
Global Health Action, 18 (1), 2448894. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2448894. PMCID: PMC11827038.
Hagen D, Bambra C, Ompad DC, Goldmann E (2025).
Macro-level determinants of gender differences in the prevalence of major depression and alcohol use disorder in the United States and across Europe
Journal of Affective Disorders, 370, 301-312. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.082.
Macro-level determinants of gender differences in the prevalence of major depression and alcohol use disorder in the United States and across Europe
Journal of Affective Disorders, 370, 301-312. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.082.
Ompad DC, Shrader CH, Snyder KM, Netherland J, Vakharia SP, Walker I (2024).
“He’s used drugs – he’s biased! He’s not a drug user – what would he know!”: A cross-sectional, online study of drug researchers’ experiential knowledge of drug use and disclosure
Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 12, 100256. doi: 10.1016/j.dadr.2024.100256. PMCID: PMC11295455.
“He’s used drugs – he’s biased! He’s not a drug user – what would he know!”: A cross-sectional, online study of drug researchers’ experiential knowledge of drug use and disclosure
Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 12, 100256. doi: 10.1016/j.dadr.2024.100256. PMCID: PMC11295455.
Meteliuk A, Sazonova Y, Goldmann E, Xu S, Liutyi V, Liakh T, Spirina T, Lekholetova M, Islam Z, Ompad DC (2024).
The impact of the 2014 military conflict in the east of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea among patients receiving opioid agonist therapies
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 160, 209312. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209312. PMCID: PMC11413855.
The impact of the 2014 military conflict in the east of Ukraine and the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea among patients receiving opioid agonist therapies
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, 160, 209312. doi: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209312. PMCID: PMC11413855.
Williams LD, Kolak M, Villanueva C, Ompad DC, Tempalski B (2023).
Creation and validation of a new socio-built environment index measure of opioid overdose risk for use in both non-urban and urban settings
Journal of Urban Health, 100 (5), 1048-1061. doi: 10.1007/s11524-023-00754-7. PMCID: PMC10618135.
Creation and validation of a new socio-built environment index measure of opioid overdose risk for use in both non-urban and urban settings
Journal of Urban Health, 100 (5), 1048-1061. doi: 10.1007/s11524-023-00754-7. PMCID: PMC10618135.
Notable
Men who purchase sex, who are they? An interurban comparison
Journal of Urban Health, 90 (6), 1166-1180. doi: 10.1007/s11524-013-9809-8. PMCID: PMC3853174.
Ompad DC, Nandi V, Cerda M, Crawford N, Galea S, Vlahov D (2012).
Beyond income: Material resources among drug users in economically-disadvantaged New York City neighborhoods
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 120 (1-3), 127-134. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.07.008. PMCID: PMC3225725.
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