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Carl Kendall is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States and has a research focus spanning multiple areas within medicine and social sciences. Their work concentrates on topics such as HIV/AIDS research and interventions, HIV, drug use and sexual risk, sex work and related issues, as well as various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic including epidemiological studies, impacts, and mental health.

The scientist's publication record includes contributions to key journals and venues with high relevance to public health and epidemiology. Frequent publication venues include Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, Cadernos de Saúde Pública, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Kendall's main fields of study involve Medicine and Social Sciences, with significant subfield expertise in Infectious Diseases, Sociology and Political Science, Epidemiology, General Health Professions, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Recent published works encompass the following papers:

  • COVID-19 no Nordeste brasileiro: sucessos e limitações nas respostas dos governos dos estados, 2020, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Covid-19 no Nordeste do Brasil: primeiro ano de pandemia e incertezas que estão por vir, 2021, Revista de Saúde Pública
  • Covid-19 no nordeste do Brasil: entre o lockdown e o relaxamento das medidas de distanciamento social, 2021, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Are verbatim transcripts necessary in applied qualitative research: experiences from two community-based intervention trials in Ghana, 2022, Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
  • Desigualdades sociais associadas com a letalidade por COVID-19 na cidade de Fortaleza, Ceará, 2020, 2021, Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde

Carl Kendall collaborates regularly with several researchers, many of whom have co-authored multiple publications. Frequent co-authors include Lígia Regina Franco Sansigolo Kerr, Rosa Lívia Freitas de Almeida, Roberto da Justa Pires Neto, Maria Amélia de Sousa Mascena Veras, and Rosa Maria Salani Mota.

Best Publications

  • Using Respondent-Driven Sampling Methodology for HIV Biological and Behavioral Surveillance in International Settings: A Systematic Review

    Mohsen Malekinejad;Mohsen Malekinejad;Lisa Grazina Johnston;Carl Kendall;Carl Kendall;Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo Kerr

  • An empirical comparison of respondent-driven sampling, time location sampling, and snowball sampling for behavioral surveillance in men who have sex with men, Fortaleza, Brazil.

    Carl Kendall;Ligia R. F. S. Kerr;Rogerio C. Gondim;Guilherme L. Werneck

  • The household production of health: integrating social science perspectives on micro-level health determinants.

    Peter Berman;Carl Kendall;Karabi Bhattacharyya

  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology for respondent-driven sampling studies: “STROBE-RDS” statement

    Richard G. White;Avi J. Hakim;Matthew J. Salganik;Michael W. Spiller

  • Implementation Challenges to Using Respondent-Driven Sampling Methodology for HIV Biological and Behavioral Surveillance: Field Experiences in International Settings

    Lisa Grazina Johnston;Mohsen Malekinejad;Mohsen Malekinejad;Carl Kendall;Irene M. Iuppa

  • Understanding pregnancy in a population of inner-city women in New Orleans--results of qualitative research

    Carl Kendall;Aimee Afable-Munsuz;Ilene Speizer;Alexis Avery

  • HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men in Brazil: results of the 2nd national survey using respondent-driven sampling

    Ligia Kerr;Carl Kendall;Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães;Rosa Salani Mota

  • Recognizing childhood illnesses and their traditional explanations: exploring options for care‐seeking interventions in the context of the IMCI strategy in rural Ghana

    Zelee Hill;Carl Kendall;Paul Arthur;Paul Arthur;Betty Kirkwood

  • HIV among MSM in a large middle-income country

    Ligia R F S Kerr;Rosa S Mota;Carl Kendall;Adriana de A Pinho

  • How local community knowledge about malaria affects insecticide-treated net use in northern Ghana

    Philip B. Adongo;Betty Kirkwood;Carl Kendall

  • Analysis of data collected by RDS among sex workers in 10 Brazilian cities, 2009: estimation of the prevalence of HIV, variance, and design effect.

    Célia Landmann Szwarcwald;Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior;Giseli Nogueira Damacena;Aristides Barbosa Junior

  • Results of a community-based Aedes aegypti control program in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

    Linda S. Lloyd;Peter Winch;Judith Ortega-Canto;Carl Kendall

  • Implementation of condom social marketing in Louisiana 1993 to 1996.

    D A Cohen;T A Farley;J R Bedimo-Etame;R Scribner

  • Formative research to optimize respondent-driven sampling surveys among hard-to-reach populations in HIV behavioral and biological surveillance: lessons learned from four case studies.

    Lisa Grazina Johnston;Sara Whitehead;Milena Simic-Lawson;Carl Kendall

  • The Design of a Community-Based Health Education Intervention for the Control of Aedes aegypti

    Linda S. Lloyd;Peter Winch;Judith Ortega-Canto;Carl Kendall

  • Ethnomedicine and oral rehydration therapy: a case study of ethnomedical investigation and program planning.

    Carl Kendall;Dennis Foote;Reynaldo Martorell

  • Effect of a community-based Aedes aegypti control programme on mosquito larval production sites in El Progreso, Honduras

    Elli Leontsini;Enrique Gil;Carl Kendall;Gary G. Clark

  • Qualitative research in health

    Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo Kerr;Carl Kendall

  • Disclosure of HIV status to sex partners among HIV-infected men and women in Cape Town, South Africa.

    Lung Vu;Katherine Andrinopoulos;Catherine Mathews;Catherine Mathews;Mickey Chopra

  • Outpatient therapeutic feeding program outcomes and determinants in treatment of severe acute malnutrition in tigray, northern ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study.

    Henock Gebremedhin Yebyo;Carl Kendall;Daniel Nigusse;Wuleta Lemma

  • Changes in Risk Behavior Among HIV-Positive Patients During Their First Year of Antiretroviral Therapy in Cape Town South Africa

    Thomas P. Eisele;Catherine Mathews;Catherine Mathews;Mickey Chopra;Mickey Chopra;Mark N. Lurie

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Mathews
Catherine Mathews South African Medical Research Council
Willi McFarland
Willi McFarland University of California, San Francisco
Mickey Chopra
Mickey Chopra World Bank
Peter J. Winch
Peter J. Winch Johns Hopkins University
Katherine P. Theall
Katherine P. Theall Tulane University
Mauricio Lima Barreto
Mauricio Lima Barreto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Ilene S. Speizer
Ilene S. Speizer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald
Célia Landmann Szwarcwald Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Duane J. Gubler
Duane J. Gubler Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Thomas W. Valente
Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California

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