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Overview

Alan Neaigus is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work focuses on several subfields, including Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Sociology and Political Science, and General Health Professions.

Thematic areas in Neaigus's research include HIV, drug use, and sexual risk; HIV/AIDS research and interventions; sex work and related issues; as well as homelessness and social issues. These topics frame much of their scholarly output and research investigations.

Neaigus has published scholarly articles in peer-reviewed venues such as the International Journal of Drug Policy and The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Examples of recent papers include:

  • The role of syringe exchange programs and sexual identity in awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for male persons who inject drugs (2020), published in the International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Serious Mental Illness Among Young People Who Inject Drugs: An Assessment of Injection Risks and Healthcare Use (2020), published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Their research collaborations involve frequent co-authorship with several researchers, including Kathleen H. Reilly, Catlainn Sionéan, Dita Broz, Rashunda Lewis, and Cyprian Wejnert. Each of these coauthors has contributed multiple times to Neaigus's body of work.

Neaigus's publications typically address public health concerns related to injection drug use, mental health, sexual risk behavior, and healthcare access among vulnerable populations. The intersection of social and medical factors in disease prevention and health promotion forms a consistent element in their studies.

The research venues commonly featuring their work, the International Journal of Drug Policy and The Journal of Infectious Diseases, highlight the applied epidemiological and clinical focus of their studies.

Best Publications

  • Sociometric risk networks and risk for HIV infection.

    Samuel R. Friedman;Alan Neaigus;Benny Jose;Richard Curtis

  • The relevance of drug injectors' social and risk networks for understanding and preventing HIV infection

    Alan Neaigus;Samuel R. Friedman;Richard Curtis;Don C. Des Jarlais

  • Changes in HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Use Among Men Who Have Sex with Men — 20 Urban Areas, 2014 and 2017

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  • Social Networks, Drug Injectors’ Lives, and HIV/AIDS

    Samuel R. Friedman;Richard Curtis;Alan Neaigus;Benny Jose

  • The network approach and interventions to prevent HIV among injection drug users.

    A Neaigus

  • Transitions to injecting drug use among noninjecting heroin users: social network influence and individual susceptibility.

    Alan Neaigus;V. Anna Gyarmathy;V. Anna Gyarmathy;Maureen Miller;Veronica M. Frajzyngier

  • Risk Factors for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seroconversion among Out-of-Treatment Drug Injectors in High and Low Seroprevalence Cities

    Samuel R. Friedman;Benny Jose;Sherry Deren;Don C. Des Jarlais

  • High-risk personal networks and syringe sharing as risk factors for HIV infection among new drug injectors

    Alan Neaigus;Samuel R. Friedman;Benny Jose;Marjorie F. Goldstein

  • Potential risk factors for the transition to injecting among non-injecting heroin users: a comparison of former injectors and never injectors.

    Alan Neaigus;Maureen Miller;Samuel R. Friedman;Debra L. Hagen

  • Street-level drug markets: Network structure and HIV risk

    Richard Curtis;Samuel R. Friedman;Alan Neaigus;Benny Jose

  • Syringe-mediated drug-sharing (backloading): a new risk factor for HIV among injecting drug users

    Benny Jose;Samuel R. Friedman;Alan Neaigus;Richard Curtis

  • Syringe-mediated drug sharing among injecting drug users: patterns, social context and implications for transmission of blood-borne pathogens.

    Jean Paul C. Grund;Samuel R. Friedman;L. Synn Stern;Benny Jose

  • Networks, resources and risk among women who use drugs.

    Maureen Miller;Alan Neaigus

  • Risk correlates of prevalent HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus infections among noninjecting heroin users

    V. Anna Gyarmathy;Alan Neaigus;Maureen Miller;Samuel R. Friedman

  • Risk networks and racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of HIV infection among injection drug users.

    Benny J. Kottiri;Samuel R. Friedman;Alan Neaigus;Richard Curtis

  • Gender differences in injection risk behaviors at the first injection episode

    Vera Frajzyngier;Vera Frajzyngier;Alan Neaigus;Alan Neaigus;V. Anna Gyarmathy;V. Anna Gyarmathy;Maureen Miller

  • Network-related Mechanisms May Help Explain Long-term HIV-1 Seroprevalence Levels That Remain High but Do Not Approach Population-Group Saturation

    Samuel R. Friedman;Benny J. Kottiri;Alan Neaigus;Richard Curtis;Richard Curtis

  • Urging others to be healthy: "intravention" by injection drug users as a community prevention goal.

    Samuel R. Friedman;Carey Maslow;Melissa Bolyard;Milagros Sandoval

  • Stigmatized drug use, sexual partner concurrency, and other sex risk network and behavior characteristics of 18- to 24-year-old youth in a high-risk neighborhood

    Peter L. Flom;Samuel R. Friedman;Benny J. Kottiri;Alan Neaigus

  • Risk Behavior and HIV Infection Among New Drug Injectors in the Era of AIDS in New York City

    Don C. Des Jarlais;Samuel R. Friedman;Theresa Perlis;Tim F. Chapman

  • Using dyadic data for a network analysis of HIV infection and risk behaviors among injecting drug users.

    Neaigus A;Friedman;Goldstein M;Ildefonso G

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel R. Friedman
Samuel R. Friedman National Development and Research Institutes
Carl A. Latkin
Carl A. Latkin Johns Hopkins University
Lisa R. Metsch
Lisa R. Metsch Columbia University
Gabriela Paz-Bailey
Gabriela Paz-Bailey Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Danielle German
Danielle German Johns Hopkins University
Sherry Deren
Sherry Deren New York University
H. Fisher Raymond
H. Fisher Raymond University of California, San Francisco
Manya Magnus
Manya Magnus George Washington University
Maarten W. J. Koeter
Maarten W. J. Koeter University of Amsterdam
Morten Hesse
Morten Hesse Aarhus University

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