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Barbara Tempalski is affiliated with the National Development and Research Institutes in the United States, focusing primarily on Medicine with a specialization in Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Sociology and Political Science.

The researcher's work covers a range of topics including:

  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment: An Expanded Theoretical Framework to Promote a Better Understanding of Risk for Nonmedical Opioid Overdose Outcomes in Urban and Non-Urban Settings, 2022, Journal of Urban Health
  • Trends in State Policy Support for Sexual Minorities and HIV-Related Outcomes Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States, 2008-2014, 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Trends over time in HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs in 89 large US metropolitan statistical areas, 1992-2013, 2020, Annals of Epidemiology
  • Mortgage Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Concentration Are Associated with Same-Race/Ethnicity Partnering among People Who Inject Drugs in 19 US Cities, 2020, Journal of Urban Health
  • Trajectories of and disparities in HIV prevalence among Black, white, and Hispanic/Latino men who have sex with men in 86 large U.S. metropolitan statistical areas, 1992-2013, 2020, Annals of Epidemiology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Annals of Epidemiology
  • Journal of Urban Health
  • Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Collaborations are common in this researcher's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Hannah L. F. Cooper
  • Leslie D. Williams
  • Samuel R. Friedman
  • Umedjon Ibragimov
  • Stephanie Beane

Best Publications

  • Extended follow-up and spatial analysis of the American Cancer Society study linking particulate air pollution and mortality.

    Krewski D;Jerrett M;Burnett Rt;Ma R

  • On Epidemiology and Geographic Information Systems: A Review and Discussion of Future Directions

    Keith C. Clarke;Sara L. McLafferty;Barbara J. Tempalski

  • Identification of a W variant outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via population-based molecular epidemiology

    Pablo J. Bifani;Barun Mathema;Zhiyuan Liu;Soraya L. Moghazeh

  • Relationships of deterrence and law enforcement to drug-related harms among drug injectors in US metropolitan areas.

    Samuel R. Friedman;Hannah L.F. Cooper;Hannah L.F. Cooper;Barbara Tempalski;Maria Keem

  • Estimating numbers of injecting drug users in metropolitan areas for structural analyses of community vulnerability and for assessing relative degrees of service provision for injecting drug users.

    Samuel R. Friedman;Barbara Tempalski;Hannah Cooper;Theresa Perlis

  • Nationwide Increase in the Number of Hospitalizations for Illicit Injection Drug Use-Related Infective Endocarditis

    Hannah L. F. Cooper;Joanne E. Brady;Daniel Ciccarone;Barbara Tempalski

  • Distance Traveled and Cross-State Commuting to Opioid Treatment Programs in the United States

    Andrew Rosenblum;Charles M. Cleland;Chunki Fong;Deborah J. Kayman

  • Trends in the population prevalence of people who inject drugs in US metropolitan areas 1992-2007.

    Barbara Tempalski;Enrique R. Pouget;Charles M. Cleland;Charles M. Cleland;Joanne E. Brady

  • Estimating the Prevalence of Injection Drug Users in the U.S. and in Large U.S. Metropolitan Areas from 1992 to 2002

    Joanne E. Brady;Samuel R. Friedman;Samuel R. Friedman;Hannah L. F. Cooper;Peter L. Flom

  • Drugscapes and the role of place and space in injection drug use-related HIV risk environments.

    Barbara Tempalski;Hilary McQuie

  • NIMBY localism and national inequitable exclusion alliances: The case of syringe exchange programs in the United States.

    Barbara Tempalski;Risa Friedman;Marie Keem;Hannah Cooper

  • Geographic approaches to quantifying the risk environment: Drug-related law enforcement and access to syringe exchange programmes

    Hannah L.F. Cooper;Brian Bossak;Barbara Tempalski;Don C. Des Jarlais

  • Social and Political Factors Predicting the Presence of Syringe Exchange Programs in 96 US Metropolitan Areas

    Barbara Tempalski;Peter L. Flom;Samuel R. Friedman;Samuel R. Friedman;Don C. Des Jarlais

  • Racialized risk environments in a large sample of people who inject drugs in the United States

    Hannah L.F. Cooper;Sabriya Linton;Mary E. Kelley;Zev Ross

  • Drug-related arrest rates and spatial access to syringe exchange programs in New York City health districts: Combined effects on the risk of injection-related infections among injectors

    Hannah L.F. Cooper;Don C. Des Jarlais;Barbara Tempalski;Brian H. Bossak

  • Temporal trends in spatial access to pharmacies that sell over-the-counter syringes in New York City health districts: relationship to local racial/ethnic composition and need.

    Hannah L. F. Cooper;Brian H. Bossak;Barbara Tempalski;Samuel R. Friedman

  • A complex systems approach to evaluate HIV prevention in metropolitan areas: preliminary implications for combination intervention strategies.

    Brandon D. L. Marshall;Brandon D. L. Marshall;Magdalena M. Paczkowski;Lars Seemann;Barbara Tempalski

  • Residential Segregation and Injection Drug Use Prevalence Among Black Adults in US Metropolitan Areas

    Hannah L.F. Cooper;Samuel R. Friedman;Barbara Tempalski;Risa Friedman

  • HIV Prevalence Rates among Injection Drug Users in 96 Large US Metropolitan Areas, 1992–2002

    Barbara Tempalski;Spencer Lieb;Charles M. Cleland;Hannah Cooper

  • Drug Arrests and Injection Drug Deterrence

    Samuel R. Friedman;Enrique R. Pouget;Sudip Chatterjee;Charles M. Cleland

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel R. Friedman
Samuel R. Friedman National Development and Research Institutes
Hannah L.F. Cooper
Hannah L.F. Cooper Emory University
Ron Stall
Ron Stall University of Pittsburgh
Charles M. Cleland
Charles M. Cleland New York University
Gabriela Paz-Bailey
Gabriela Paz-Bailey Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Gina M. Wingood
Gina M. Wingood Columbia University
Adaora A. Adimora
Adaora A. Adimora University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kelli A. Komro
Kelli A. Komro Emory University
Brandon D. L. Marshall
Brandon D. L. Marshall Brown University
Michael Jerrett
Michael Jerrett University of California, Los Angeles

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