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Dustin T. Duncan is the Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and 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, 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, Impact of Social Cohesion and Social Capital in PrEP Uptake and Adherence Among Transwomen of Color. Completed

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. 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

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

Flores JM, Moline T, Regan SD, Chen YT, Shrader CH, Schneider JA, Duncan DT, Kim B (2024).
Neighborhood violent crime exposure is associated with PrEP non-use among Black sexually minoritized men and transgender women: A GPS study
AIDS, 38 (9), 1424-1429. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003906. PMCID: PMC11211052.

Shrader CH, Duncan DT, Driver R, Chen YT, Knox J, Bond K, Weinstein ER, Durrell M, Hanson H, Eavou R, Goedel WC, Schneider JA (2024).
Social network characteristics associated with more frequent HIV and STI prevention conversations: The N2 cohort study in Chicago
AIDS and Behavior, 28 (7), 2463-2475. doi: 10.1007/s10461-024-04348-5.

Morrison CN, Mair CF, Bates L, Duncan DT, Branas CC, Bushover BR, Mehranbod CA, Gobaud AN, Uong S, Forrest S, Roberts L, Rundle AG (2024).
Defining spatial epidemiology: A systematic review and re-orientation
Epidemiology, 35 (4), 542-555. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001738. PMCID: PMC11196201.

Duncan DT, Park SH, Dharma C, Torrats-Espinosa G, Contreras J, Scheinmann R, Watson K, Herrera C, Schneider JA, Khan M, Lim S, Trinh-Shevrin C, Radix A (2024).
Neighborhood safety and neighborhood police violence are associated with psychological distress among English- and Spanish-speaking transgender women of color in New York City: Finding from the TURNNT cohort study
Journal of Urban Health, 101 (3), 557-570. doi: 10.1007/s11524-024-00879-3. PMCID: PMC11189871.

Cordoba E, Garofalo R, Kuhns LM, Pearson C, Batey DS, Janulis P, Jia H, Bruce J, Hidalgo MA, Hirshfield S, Radix A, Belkind U, Duncan DT, Kim B, Schnall R (2024).
Neighborhood-level characteristics as effect modifiers on the efficacy of the MyPEEPS mobile intervention in same-sex attracted adolescent men
Preventive Medicine Reports, 42, 102726. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102726. PMCID: PMC11059328.