Concurrent partnerships and HIV: an inconvenient truth

H Epstein, M Morris - Journal of the international AIDS society, 2011‏ - Springer
The strength of the evidence linking concurrency to HIV epidemic severity in southern and
eastern Africa led the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the Southern …

Pandemics, past and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies

J Dimka, TP van Doren… - American Journal of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biological anthropologists are ideally suited for the study of pandemics given their strengths
in human biology, health, culture, and behavior, yet pandemics have historically not been a …

[HTML][HTML] EpiModel: an R package for mathematical modeling of infectious disease over networks

SM Jenness, SM Goodreau, M Morris - Journal of statistical …, 2018‏ - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Package EpiModel provides tools for building, simulating, and analyzing mathematical
models for the population dynamics of infectious disease transmission in R. Several classes …

Unraveling the divergent results of pre-exposure prophylaxis trials for HIV prevention

A Van der Straten, L Van Damme, JE Haberer… - Aids, 2012‏ - journals.lww.com
Although the balance of recent evidence supports the efficacy of antiretroviral (ARV)-based
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV-1 infection, recent negative trial results are …

A comparison of sexual behavior patterns among men who have sex with men and heterosexual men and women

SN Glick, M Morris, B Foxman, SO Aral… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2012‏ - journals.lww.com
Objective: Men who have sex with men (MSM) have higher rates of HIV and other sexually
transmitted infections than women and heterosexual men. This elevated risk persists across …

[HTML][HTML] Inference for social network models from egocentrically sampled data, with application to understanding persistent racial disparities in HIV prevalence in the …

PN Krivitsky, M Morris - The annals of applied statistics, 2017‏ - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Egocentric network sampling observes the network of interest from the point of view of a set
of sampled actors, who provide information about themselves and anonymized information …

Impact of HLA-driven HIV adaptation on virulence in populations of high HIV seroprevalence

R Payne, M Muenchhoff, J Mann… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - National Acad Sciences
It is widely believed that epidemics in new hosts diminish in virulence over time, with natural
selection favoring pathogens that cause minimal disease. However, a tradeoff frequently …

[HTML][HTML] Egocentric sexual networks of men who have sex with men in the United States: Results from the ARTnet study

KM Weiss, SM Goodreau, M Morris, P Prasad… - Epidemics, 2020‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we present an overview and descriptive results from one of the first egocentric
network studies of men who have sex with men (MSM) from across the United States: the …

[HTML][HTML] The racial disparities in STI in the US: Concurrency, STI prevalence, and heterogeneity in partner selection

DT Hamilton, M Morris - Epidemics, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Background There is a large and persistent racial disparity in STI in the US which has
placed non-Hispanic-Blacks at disproportionately high risk. We tested a hypothesis that both …

HIV treatment as prevention: models, data, and questions—towards evidence-based decision-making

… Treatment as Prevention Editorial Writing Group - PLoS …, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those infected with HIV can prevent onward transmission of
infection, but biological efficacy alone is not enough to guide policy decisions about the role …