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Chuck Cleland
Charles M. Cleland, PhD
CDUHR - Co-Director, Transdisciplinary Research Methods Core
NYU Langone Health - Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Email: Charles.Cleland@nyulangone.org
Education
PhD, Psychology, New School for Social Research
MA, Psychology, New School for Social Research
BA, Psychology, Hampden-Sydney College

Research Interests
HIV prevention, Health disparities, Substance use, Sexual health, Longitudinal data analysis
BIO
Charles Cleland is a quantitative psychologist and biostatistician with more than ten years of experience in the field of public health research. His methodological interests include longitudinal data analysis, meta­-analysis, respondent­ driven sampling, and multilevel modeling. His substantive research interests include health disparities, particularly in the areas of substance use and infectious disease.
Publications

Recent

Palamar JJ, Abukahok N, Acosta P, Krotulski AJ, Walton SE, Stang B, Cleland CM (2025).
Tusi use among the New York City nightclub-attending population
Addiction [Epub 2025 Apr 20]. doi: 10.1111/add.70069.

Doran KM, Torsiglieri A, Moran J, Blaufarb S, Liu AY, Ringrose E, Urban C, Velez L, Hernandez P, O'Grady MA, Shelley D, Cleland CM (2025).
Staff views on overdose prevention in permanent supportive housing
Harm Reduction Journal, 22 (1), 59. doi: 10.1186/s12954-025-01215-x. PMCID: PMC12007226.

Gwadz M, Heng S, Cleland CM, Strayhorn J, Robinson JA, Serrano FGB, Wang P, Parameswaran L, Chero R (2025).
Effects of behavioral intervention components to increase COVID-19 testing for African American/Black and Latine frontline essential workers not up-to-date on COVID-19 vaccination: Results of an optimization randomized controlled trial
Journal of Behavioral Medicine [Epub 2025 Apr 17]. doi: 10.1007/s10865-025-00566-x.

Gwadz M, Robinson JA, Serrano FGB, Campos S, Freeman RM, Chero R, Cleland CM, Parameswaran L, Hawkins RL, Filippone P, Lizardo M, Bangser G, Ramirez PG, Negret A, Kagzi M, Lissinna H (2025).
Perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination among unvaccinated and under-vaccinated African American/Black and Latine frontline essential workers: A qualitative exploration
AIDS and Behavior [Epub 2025 Apr 10]. doi: 10.1007/s10461-025-04708-9.

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 (2025).
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, 12 (2), 692-702. doi: 10.1007/s40615-024-01909-1. PMCID: PMC11470103.


Notable

Kurth AE, Spielberg F, Cleland CM, Lambdin B, Bangsberg DR, Frick PA, Severynen AO, Clausen M, Norman RG, Lockhart D, Simoni JM, Holmes KK (2014).
Computerized counseling reduces HIV-1 viral load and sexual transmission risk: Findings from a randomized controlled trial
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 65 (5), 611-620. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000100. PMCID: PMC3999203.

Marsch LA, Guarino H, Acosta M, Aponte-Melendez Y, Cleland C, Grabinski M, Brady R, Edwards J (2014).
Web-based behavioral treatment for substance use disorders as a partial replacement of standard methadone maintenance treatment
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 46 (1), 43-51. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2013.08.012. PMCID: PMC3839618 .

Rosenblum A, Joseph H, Fong, C, Kipnis S, Cleland CM, Portenoy RK (2003).
Prevalence and characteristics of chronic pain among chemically dependent patients in methadone maintenance and residential treatment facilities
Journal of the American Medical Association, 289 (18), 2370-2378. doi: 10.1001/jama.289.18.2370.

Dr. Cleland's Research Gate Profile
Selected Press