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Don C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D.

Position Title

  • Deputy Director, Infectious Diseases and Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core
  • Director of Research, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center
  • Principal Investigator
  • Senior Research Fellow, NDRI

Affiliation
Beth Israel Medical Center

Education
Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Michigan

Current Projects

  • Principal Investigator, HIV Infection in Ethnic Minority IDUs: An International Systematic Review
  • Principal Investigator, HIV Transmission among Injection Drug Users in Tallinn, Estonia
  • Principal Investigator, Multiple HIV Prevention Packages for IDUs in Estonia
  • Principal Investigator, Risk Factors for HIV/AIDS in Drug Users
  • WHO Survey Coordinating Center, Drug Injecting Study-Phase 2

Awards and Memberships

  • New York City Mayor's Commission on AIDS
  • Chair, Prevention Science Working Group, National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research
  • Consultant on AIDS: Institute of Medicine - National Academy of Sciences, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) External Research Advisory Board, 1996
  • Vice Chairman, Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1991-1994
  • National Commission Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), 1989-1993

Academic Appointments

  • Visiting Professor, Psychology, Columbia University
  • Guest Investigator, Rockefeller University
  • Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY


Selected Publications Sort Results By: Author | Title | Year

Coffin, L. S., Newberry, A., Hagan, H., Cleland, C. M., Des Jarlais, D. C., & Perlman, D. C. (2010). Syphilis in drug users in low and middle income countries. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21 (1), 20-27.

Des Jarlais, D. C. (2010). Learning from HIV epidemics among injecting drug users. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21 (2), 97-99.

Des Jarlais, D. C., Arasteh, K., & Gwadz, M. (2010). Increasing HIV prevention and care for injecting drug users. Lancet, 375 (9719), 961-963.

Des Jarlais, D. C., Arasteh, K., McKnight, C., Hagan, H., Perlman, D. C., Torian, L. V., Beatrice, S., Semaan, S., & Friedman, S. R. (2010). HIV infection during limited versus combined HIV prevention programs for IDUs in New York City: The importance of transmission behaviors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 109 (1-3), 154-160.

Des Jarlais, D. C., Arasteh, K., McKnight, C., Ringer, M., & Friedman, S. R. (2010). Syringe exchange, injecting and intranasal drug use. Addiction, 105 (1), 155-158.

Masson, C. L., Sorensen, J. L., Grossman, N., Sporer, K. A., Des Jarlais, D. C., & Perlman, D. C. (2010). Organizational issues in the implementation of a hospital-based syringe exchange program. Substance Use and Misuse, 45 (6), 901-915.

Meader, N., Li, R., Des Jarlais, D. C., & Pilling, S. (2010). Psychosocial interventions for reducing injection and sexual risk behaviour for preventing HIV in drug users. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1), CD007192.

Quaglio, G., Pattaro, C., Gerra, G., Mezzelani, P., Montanari, L., Des Jarlais, D. C., & Lugoboni, F. (2010). Buprenorphine in maintenance treatment: Experience among Italian physicians in drug addiction centers. American Journal on Addictions, 19 (3), 222-230.

Semaan, S., Heckathorn, D. D., Des Jarlais, D. C., & Garfein, R. S. (2010). Ethical considerations in surveys employing respondent-driven sampling. American Journal of Public Health, 100 (4), 582-583.

Uuskula, A., Johnston, L. G., Raag, M., Trummal, A., Talu, A., & Des Jarlais, D. C. (2010). Evaluating recruitment among female sex workers and injecting drug users at risk for HIV using respondent-driven sampling in Estonia. Journal of Urban Health, 87 (2), 304-317.

Arasteh, K., & Des Jarlais, D. C. (2009). At-risk drinking and injection and sexual risk behaviors of HIV-positive injection drug users entering drug treatment in New York City. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 23 (8), 657-661.

Arasteh, K., & Des Jarlais, D. C. (2009). HIV testing and treatment among at-risk drinking injection drug users. Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, 8 (3), 196-201.

Booth, R. E., Des Jarlais, D. C., & Friedman, S. R. (2009). Reflections on 25 years of HIV and AIDS research among drug abusers. Journal of Drug Issues, 39 (1), 209-222.

Broadhead, R. S., Hammett, T. M., Kling, R., Doan, N., Liu, W., Chen, Y., Hoang, N. Q., Kieu, T. B., Hoang, V. T., Borch, C., Gauchat, G., & Des Jarlais, D. C. (2009). Peer-driven interventions in Vietnam and China to prevent HIV: A pilot study targeting injection drug users. Journal of Drug Issues, 39 (4), 829-850.

Cooper, H. L., Bossak, B. H., Tempalski, B., Friedman, S. R., & Des Jarlais, D. C. (2009). Temporal trends in spatial access to pharmacies that sell over-the-counter syringes in New York City health districts: Relationship to local racial/ethnic composition and need. Journal of Urban Health, 86 (6), 929-945.

Cooper, H. L., Bossak, B., Tempalski, B., Des Jarlais, D. C., & Friedman, S. R. (2009). Geographic approaches to quantifying the risk environment: Drug-related law enforcement and access to syringe exchange programmes. International Journal of Drug Policy, 20 (3), 217-226.

Des Jarlais, D. (2009). National and international aspects of doing harm reduction better. Addiction, 109 (9), 1452-1453.

Des Jarlais, D. C., & Hubbard, R. L. (2009). Drug abuse. In R. Detels, R. Beaglehole, M. A. Lansang, & M. Gulliford (Eds.), Oxford textbook of public health: The scope of public health (5th ed., 1303-1321). New York: Oxford University Press.

Des Jarlais, D. C., & Semaan, S. (2009). HIV prevention and psychoactive drug use: A research agenda. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63 (3), 191-196.

Des Jarlais, D. C., Arasteh, K., Hagan, H., McKnight, C., Perlman, D. C., & Friedman, S. R. (2009). Persistence and change in disparities in HIV infection among injection drug users in New York City after large-scale syringe exchange programs. American Journal of Public Health, 99 (Suppl 2), S445-S451.

Des Jarlais, D. C., Arasteh, K., McKnight, C., Hagan, H., Perlman, D., & Friedman, S. R. (2009). Using hepatitis C virus and herpes simplex virus-2 to track HIV among injecting drug users in New York City. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 101 (1-2), 88-91.

Des Jarlais, D. C., Arasteh, K., Semaan, S., & Wood, E. (2009). HIV among injecting drug users: Current epidemiology, biologic markers, respondent-driven sampling, and supervised-injection facilities. Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 4 (4), 308-313.

Des Jarlais, D. C., McKnight, C., Goldblatt, C., & Purchase, D. (2009). Doing harm reduction better: Syringe exchange in the United States. Addiction, 104 (9), 1441-1446.

Edlin, B. R., Shu, M. A., Winkelstein, E., Des Jarlais, D. C., Busch, M. P., Rehermann, B., O'Brien, T. R., Talal, A. H., Tobler, L. H., Zeremski, M., & Beeder, A. B. (2009). More rare birds, and the occasional swan. Gastroenterology, 136 (7), 2412-2414.

Holtzman, D., Barry, V., Ouellet, L. J., Des Jarlais, D. C., Vlahov, D., Golub, E. T., Hudson, S. M., & Garfein, R. S. (2009). The influence of needle exchange programs on injection risk behaviors and infection with hepatitis C virus among young injection drug users in select cities in the United States, 1994-2004. Preventive Medicine, 49 (1), 68-73.

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