Samuel R. Friedman, PhD
CDUHR - Associate Director & Senior Theoretician, Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Social-behavioral Theory Core
NYU Langone Health - Research Professor, Department of Population Health
Johns Hopkins University - Senior Associate, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health
NYU Langone Health - Research Professor, Department of Population Health
Johns Hopkins University - Senior Associate, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of MichiganMA, Sociology, University of Michigan
BA, Economics, Harvard University
Research Interests
Transdisciplinary HIV prevention, Networks, HIV, HCV, STIs, Phylogenetics, Metropolitan area cohort studies, Big Events and their sequelae, Recent infection, Prevention for positives, IDUs, MSM, High-risk heterosexuals, Cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), Theoretical and historical overview of the HIV epidemic as a whole, Big events BIO
Sam Friedman has worked on research concerning people who use drugs and HIV since 1983. During this time, he has written widely on related epidemiology and prevention topics. His work has contributed substantially to what we know about drug users’ social networks and their relations to HIV epidemics; to our understanding of macro-social epidemiology of drug use and its associated diseases; to the theory and practice of drug users’ organizations and their efforts to reduce the spread of HIV and other infections among them; to efforts to prevent HIV transmission by drug users and others who have recently become infected; and to our understanding of how HIV and other epidemics among people who used drugs do or do not spread to non-users in their communities. Projects
Principal Investigator, Understanding the Short- and Long-term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Overdose Crisis. Active
Principal Investigator, Community Vulnerability and Responses to Drug-User-Related HIV/AIDS (CVAR). Completed
Principal Investigator, Developing Measures to Study How Structural Interventions May Affect HIV Risk. Completed
Principal Investigator, HIV, HCV, STI, OD and Other Risks Associated with Hard Drug Use Among Young Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia. Completed
Principal Investigator, Metropolitan Trajectories of HIV Epidemics, Drug Use, and Responses in US Key Populations. Completed
Principal Investigator, Networks, Norms and HIV/STI Risk Among Youth (NNAHRAY). Completed
Principal Investigator, Preventing HIV Transmission by Recently Infected Drug Users. Completed
Principal Investigator, Staying Safe: Long-Term Injection Drug Users Who Avoided HIV & Hepatitis C. Completed
Publications
Recent
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 (2024).
Agent-based model of combined community- and jail-based take-home naloxone distribution
JAMA Network Open, 7 (12), e2448732. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.48732. PMCID: PMC11632540.
Agent-based model of combined community- and jail-based take-home naloxone distribution
JAMA Network Open, 7 (12), e2448732. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.48732. PMCID: PMC11632540.
Williams LD, van Heerden A, Friedman SR, Chibi B, Memela P, Rodriguez WA, Joseph P (2024).
Comparison of a novel expanded social network recruitment intervention with risk network recruitment to HIV testing: Locating undiagnosed cases in South Africa
AIDS, 38 (13), 1861-1865. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003976.
Comparison of a novel expanded social network recruitment intervention with risk network recruitment to HIV testing: Locating undiagnosed cases in South Africa
AIDS, 38 (13), 1861-1865. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003976.
Friedman SR, Rossi D, Perlman DC (2024).
Historical and theoretical roots of the Big Events framework
International Journal of Drug Policy, 133, 104606. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104606. PMCID: PMC11540725.
Historical and theoretical roots of the Big Events framework
International Journal of Drug Policy, 133, 104606. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104606. PMCID: PMC11540725.
Williams LD, Memela P, van Heerden A, Friedman SR, Joseph P, Chibi B (2024).
Relationships among COVID-19-related service uptake, HIV status, drug use, and COVID-19 antibody status among HIV testing intervention participants in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (11), 1411. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21111411. PMCID: PMC11593625.
Relationships among COVID-19-related service uptake, HIV status, drug use, and COVID-19 antibody status among HIV testing intervention participants in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (11), 1411. doi: 10.3390/ijerph21111411. PMCID: PMC11593625.
Shimada A, Buchanan AL, Katenka NV, Skov B, Lemire G, Kogut S, Friedman SR (2024).
Evaluating attitudes on health-seeking behavior among a network of people who inject drugs
Applied Network Science, 9, 43. doi: 10.1007/s41109-024-00653-z.
Evaluating attitudes on health-seeking behavior among a network of people who inject drugs
Applied Network Science, 9, 43. doi: 10.1007/s41109-024-00653-z.
Notable
Do metropolitan HIV epidemic histories and programs for people who inject drugs and men who have sex with men predict AIDS incidence and mortality among heterosexuals?
Annals of Epidemiology, 24 (4), 304-311. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.01.008. PMCID: PMC3954755.
Friedman SR, Sandoval M, Mateu-Gelabert P, Rossi D, Gwadz M, Dombrowski K, Smyrnov P, Vasylyeva T, Pouget ER, Perlman D (2013).
Theory, measurement and hard times: Some issues for HIV/AIDS research
AIDS and Behavior, 17 (6), 1915-1925. doi: 10.1007/s10461-013-0475-3. PMCID: PMC3674169.
Friedman SR, Curtis R, Neaigus A, Jose B, Des Jarlais DC (1999).
Social networks, drug injectors’ lives, and HIV/AIDS.
New York: Plenum.
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