mark lurie
Office: 121 South Main St., 2nd Floor
email: Mark_Lurie@brown.eduTitle: Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences, Departments of Community Health and Medicine
Background:
Mark Lurie, PhD, Assistant Professor of Community Health and Medicine joined the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University in 2003. He received his PhD in International Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 2001, and his MA in African History from the University of Florida in 1992. A native South African, he has been doing research on the HIV/AIDS, sexually transmtted disease and tuberculosis epidemics in Southern Africa for more than a decade. Dr. Lurie received a 5-year National Institutes of Health K-01 Career Development Award in 2003 and has an NIH R01 starting at the beginning of 2009.
Research Interests:
The impact of migration on the spread of HIV, social and behavioural determinants of sexually transmitted infections, social epidemiology, and the public health impact of antiretroviral therapy.
Current Research:
Dr. Lurie continues to focus his research on social epidemiology and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. He continues to study the role of migration in the spread of HIV in South Africa, and other projects include:
- Collaborating with rural and urban sites in South Africa to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS on sexual behavior. Collaborators include the Perinatal HIV Research Unit at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, the Rural Action Development Research program in Limpopo Province and the South African Medical Research Council in Cape Town.
- A new R01, set to start at the beginning of 2009 will assess the public health impact of antiretroviral therapy. Using primary data collection and mathematical modeling, we plan to assess the impact of ART on HIV epidemic dynamics like incidence, prevalence and mortality. Collaborators include the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in rural KwaZulu/Natal and the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
- Collaborating with colleagues at the University of Natal in Durban South Africa, Dr. Lurie is working within an existing randomized controlled trial for antiretroviral therapy for people who are co-infected with TB and HIV. He is collecting data on sexual behaviour and incidence of sexually transmitted infections among people who are co-infected and who are on antiretroviral therapy. He plans to use that and other data to develop mathematical models to estimate the public health impact of HIV treatment in terms of secondary transmission averted.
Selected Recent Publications:
2007. Khangelani Zuma, Mark Lurie, Michael Jorgensen. 2007. Analysis of interval-censored data from migrant and non-migrant partnerships using the EM algorithm. Statistics in Medicine, 26:306-319.
2007. Megan Coffee, Mark Lurie, Geoff Garnett. 2007. Modelling the impact of migration on the rural HIV epidemic in South Africa. AIDS, 21:343-350.
2007. Patricia Myung, David Pugatch, Mark Brady, Phok Many, Joseph Harwell, Mark Lurie, John Tucker. 2007. Directly-Observed HAART for HIV Infected Children in Cambodia. American Journal of Public Health, 97(6): 674-677.
2007. Mark Lurie. Fertility, mobility, and changing household structure in South Africa. 2007. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 35(Suppl. 69):94-95.
2008. Mark Lurie, Paul Pronyk, Emily DeMoor, Adele Heyer, Guy de Bruyn, Helen Struthers, James McIntyre, Glenda Gray, Edmore Miranda, Kerstin Kipstein-Grobusch, Neil Martinson. Sexual behaviour and reproductive health among HIV-infected patients in urban and rural South Africa. 2008. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 47(4):484-493.
In Press. Phan Sok, Joseph I. Harwell, Lynne M. Dansereau, Stephen T. McGarvey, Mark Lurie, Kenneth H. Mayer. Patterns of sexual behaviors of male patients prior to testing HIV+ in a Cambodian hospital, Phnom Penh. Sexual Health, in press.
In Press. Hirut Gebrekristos, Mark Lurie, Nathi Mthethwa, Qaurraisha Abdool Karim. Disclosure of HIV status: experiences of patients enrolled in an integrated TB and HAART pilot programme in South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research, in press.
In Press. Thomas Eisele, Catherine Mathews, Mickey Chopra, Mark Lurie, Lisanne Brown, Sarah Dewing, Carl Kendall. Changes in Risk Behavior among HIV-Positive Patients during Their First Year of Antiretroviral Therapy in Cape Town South Africa. AIDS and Behavior, in press.
Additional Information:
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