Articles Based on Dissertation Research of
SBI PhD Students 

In press
Andrinopoulos K et al. Establishment of and HIV Testing and Treatment Program Among Male Inmates in Kingston, Jamaica. International Journal of STDs and AIDS. (in press)

Barrington C, Latkin C, Sweat M, Moreno L, Ellen J, Kerrigan D. Talking the talk, walking the walk: Social network norms, communication patterns, and condom use among the male partners of female sex workers in La Romana, Dominican Republic.  Social Science and Medicine.  (in press)

2008
Ashburn K, Kerrigan D, Sweat M. Micro-credit, women's groups, control of own money: HIV-related negotiation among partnered Dominican women. AIDS Behav. 2008 May;12(3):396-403.

Denison JA, McCauley AP, Dunnett-Dagg WA, Lungu N, Sweat MD. The HIV testing experiences of adolescents in Ndola, Zambia: do families and friends matter? AIDS Care. 2008 Jan;20(1):101-5.

Ho LS, Gittelsohn J, Rimal R, Treuth M, Sharma S, Rosecrans A, Harris SB. An integrated multi-institutional diabetes prevention program improves knowledge and healthy food acquisition in northwestern Ontario First Nations. Health Education and Behavior, 2008;35(4): 561-73.

Ho LS, Gittelsohn J, Sharma S, Cao X, Treuth M, Rimal R, Harris SB.  Food related behavior, physical activity, and dietary intake in First Nations – a population at high risk for diabetes, Ethnicity and Health, 2008 Sep;13(4):335-49.

2007
Aronson RE, Wallis AB, O'Campo PJ, Whitehead TL, Schafer P. Ethnographically informed community evaluation: a framework and approach for evaluating community-based initiatives. Matern Child Health J 2007 Mar;11(2):97-109.

Corsi KF, Winch PJ, Kwiatkowski CF, Booth RE. Childhood factors that precede drug injection: Is there a link? Journal of Child and Family Studies 2007;16(6):808-18.

Gammino VM, Gittelsohn J, Langidrik J. Dietary intake in infants and young children in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Pacific Health Dialogue, 2007;14(1):11-20.

Haws RA, Darmstadt GL. Integrated, evidence-based approaches to save newborn lives in developing countries. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2007 Jan;161(1):99-102.

Haws RA, Thomas AL, Bhutta ZA, Darmstadt GL. Impact of packaged interventions on neonatal health: a review of the evidence. Health Policy Plan 2007 Jul;22(4):193-215.

Sharma S, Cao X, Gittelsohn J, Ho LS, Ford E, Rosecrans A, Hanley A, Zinman B. (2007) Dietary intake and development of a quantitative food frequency questionnaire for a lifestyle intervention to reduce risk of chronic diseases in Canadian First Nations. Public Health Nutrition, 2007; 10(9): 948-56.

2006
Robert, RC, Gittelsohn, J., Creed-Kanashiro, H.M., Penny, M.E., Caulfield, L.E., Narro, M.R., and Black, R.E. (2006) Determining the pathway to success:  Process evaluation of a health center-delivered, nutrition education intervention for infants in Trujillo, Peru Journal of Nutrition; 136(3): 634-41.

Robert RC, Gittelsohn J, Creed-Kanashiro HM, Penny ME, Caulfield LE, Narro MR, Steckler A, and Black RE (2006) "Implementation Examined in a Health Center-Delivered, Educational Intervention that Improved Infant Growth in Trujillo, Peru:  Successes and Challenges", Health Education Research, Aug 31; [Epub ahead of print].

2004–2005 
Saksvig, B.I., Gittelsohn, J., Harris, S.B., Hanley, A.J.G., Valente, T.W., and Zinman, B. (2005) A Pilot School-Based Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Intervention Improves Diet, Food Knowledge and Self-Efficacy for Native Canadian Children, Journal of Nutrition;135(10): 2392-8.

Morrow OI, Sweat MD, Morrow RH. The matalisi: pathway to early sexual initiation among the youth of Mpigi, Uganda. AIDS Behav. 2004 Dec;8(4):365-78.

2003 
Kerrigan D, Ellen JM, Moreno L, Rosario S, Katz J, Celentano DD, Sweat M. Environmental-structural factors significantly associated with consistent condom use among female sex workers in the Dominican Republic. AIDS. 2003 Feb 14;17(3):415-23.

Lurie MN, Williams BG, Zuma K, Mkaya-Mwamburi D, Garnett G, Sturm AW, et al. The impact of migration on HIV-1 transmission in South Africa: a study of migrant and nonmigrant men and their partners. Sex Transm Dis 2003 Feb;30(2):149-56.

Lurie MN, Williams BG, Zuma K, Mkaya-Mwamburi D, Garnett GP, Sweat MD, et al. Who infects whom? HIV-1 concordance and discordance among migrant and non-migrant couples in South Africa. AIDS 2003 Oct 17;17(15):2245-52.

Malouin R, Winch P, Leontsini E, Glass G, Simon D, Hayes EB, et al. Longitudinal evaluation of an educational intervention for preventing tick bites in an area with endemic lyme disease in Baltimore County, Maryland. Am J Epidemiol 2003 Jun 1;157(11):1039-51.

Maman S, Mbwambo JK, Hogan NM, Weiss E, Kilonzo GP, Sweat MD. High rates and positive outcomes of HIV-serostatus disclosure to sexual partners: reasons for cautious optimism from a voluntary counseling and testing clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. AIDS Behav. 2003 Dec;7(4):373-82.

2002
Amin A, Bentley ME. The influence of gender on rural women's illness experiences and health-seeking strategies for gynecological symptoms. Journal of Health Management 2002;4(2):229-49.

Kielmann K. Theorizing health in the context of transition: the dynamics of perceived morbidity among women in peri-urban Maharashtra, India. Med Anthropol 2002 Apr-Jun;21(2):157-205.

Maman S, Mbwambo JK, Hogan NM, Kilonzo GP, Campbell JC, Weiss E, Sweat MD. HIV-positive women report more lifetime partner violence: findings from a voluntary counseling and testing clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Am J Public Health. 2002 Aug;92(8):1331-7.

Oomman N, Ganatra BR. Sex selection: the systematic elimination of girls. Reprod Health Matters 2002 May;10(19):184-8.

2000–2001
Maman S, Mbwambo J, Hogan NM, Kilonzo GP, Sweat M. Women's barriers to HIV-1 testing and disclosure: challenges for HIV-1 voluntary counselling and testing. AIDS Care. 2001 Oct;13(5):595-603.

Hanley, A.J.G., Harris, S.B., Gittelsohn, J., Wolever, T.M.S., Saksvig, B., and Zinman, B. (2000) Obesity among Children and Adolescents in a Native Canadian Community: Prevalence and Associated Factors,  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 71(3):693-700.

Maman S, Campbell J, Sweat MD, Gielen AC. The intersections of HIV and violence: directions for future research and interventions. Soc Sci Med. 2000 Feb;50(4):459-78.

1992–1999
Bond KC, Valente TW, Kendall C. Social network influences on reproductive health behaviors in urban northern Thailand. Soc Sci Med 1999 Dec;49(12):1599-614.

Mehl GL, Seimon T, Winch PJ. Funerals, big matches and jolly trips: Contextual spaces of smoking risk for Sri Lankan adolescents. Anthropology and Medicine 1999;6(3):337-57.

Seimon T, Mehl GL. Strategic marketing of cigarettes to young people in Sri Lanka: "go ahead--I want to see you smoke it now". Tob Control 1998 Winter;7(4):429-33.

Chand AD, Bhattacharyya K. The Marathi "taskonomy" of respiratory illnesses in children. Med Anthropol 1994 May;15(4):395-408.

Lloyd LS, Winch P, Ortega-Canto J, Kendall C. The design of a community-based health education intervention for the control of Aedes aegypti. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1994 Apr;50(4):401-11.

Brieger WR, Kendall C. Learning from local knowledge to improve disease surveillance: perceptions of the guinea worm illness experience. Health Educ Res 1992 Dec;7(4):471-85.

Lloyd LS, Winch P, Ortega-Canto J, Kendall C. Results of a community-based Aedes aegypti control program in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1992 Jun;46(6):635-42.