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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Claire E. Sterk is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and medicine, with particular contributions to sociology and political science, general health professions, epidemiology, safety research, and health. The scientist has published work examining sex work and related issues, intimate partner and family violence, HIV, drug use, sexual risk, poverty, education and child welfare, sexual assault and victimization studies, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, as well as global public health policies and epidemiology.

Their recent scholarly articles include the following:

  • Prevalence of violence victimisation and poly-victimisation among female sex workers in Haiphong, Viet Nam: A cross-sectional study, 2024, published in Global Public Health
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences increase the lifetime experience of violence poly-victimization among female sex worker in Hai Phong, Vietnam, 2025, Journal of Health Sciences
  • Charting a path forward toward integrating macrolevel phenomena, marginalization, and health equity principles in into dissemination and implementation science, 2025, Social Science & Medicine
  • Improving Access to HIV Prevention Services in Community Pharmacies in the US Southeast: Protocol for a Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness-Implementation Study, 2025, JMIR Research Protocols

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Hoang Thi Giang
  • Phạm Minh Khuê
  • Dabney P. Evans
  • Stephanie Spaid Miedema
  • Kathryn M. Yount

The venues where Claire E. Sterk frequently publishes are:

  • Journal of Health Sciences
  • Global Public Health
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • JMIR Research Protocols
  • Harm Reduction Journal

Claire E. Sterk has been recognized by being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Integrating the general theory of crime into an explanation of violent victimization among female offenders

    Eric A. Stewart;Kirk W. Elifson;Claire E. Sterk

  • Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine

    Claire E Sterk

  • Temporal and Social Contexts of Heroin‐Using Populations An Illustration of the Snowball Sampling Technique

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  • Using social network and ethnographic tools to evaluate syphilis transmission.

    Richard B. Rothenberg;Claire Sterk;Kathleen E. Toomey;John J. Potterat

  • Crack, sex, and STD.

    Rani Marx;Sevgi O. Aral;Robert T. Rolfs;Claire E. Sterk

  • The Limits of Social Capital: Durkheim, Suicide, and Social Cohesion

    Howard I. Kushner;Claire E. Sterk

  • Pregnant Women on Drugs: Combating Stereotypes and Stigma

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  • Early adolescent pregnancy increases risk of incident HIV infection in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a longitudinal study

    Nicola J. Christofides;Rachel K. Jewkes;Kristin Dunkle;Mzikazi Nduna

  • Cocaine and HIV seropositivity.

    Claire Sterk

  • Effectiveness of a Risk Reduction Intervention Among African American Women Who Use Crack Cocaine

    Claire E. Sterk;Katherine P. Theall;Kirk W. Elifson

  • Risk factors for unplanned and unwanted teenage pregnancies occurring over two years of follow-up among a cohort of young South African women

    Nicola J. Christofides;Rachel K. Jewkes;Kristin L. Dunkle;Frances McCarty

  • Functional methamphetamine use: The insider's perspective

    Daniel H. Lende;Terri Leonard;Claire E. Sterk;Kirk Elifson

  • The Atlanta Urban Networks Study: a blueprint for endemic transmission.

    Richard B. Rothenberg;David M. Long;Claire E. Sterk;Albert Pach

  • Social intervention against AIDS among injecting drug users.

    Samuel R. Friedman;Alan Neaigus;Don C. Des Jarlais;Jo L. Sotheran

  • HIV risk reduction among African-American women who inject drugs: a randomized controlled trial.

    Claire E Sterk;Katherine P Theall;Kirk W Elifson;Daniel Kidder

  • Self-esteem and "at risk" women:determinants and relevance to sexual and HIV-related risk behaviors.

    Claire E. Sterk;Hugh Klein;Kirk W. Elifson

  • Rolling beyond Raves: Ecstasy use outside the Rave Setting:

    Miriam Williams Boeri;Claire E. Sterk;Kirk W. Elifson

  • Risks associated with tattooing and body piercing.

    Ronald L Braithwaite;Torrance Stephens;Claire Sterk;Kisha Braithwaite

  • A qualitative study examining the perceived barriers and facilitators to medical healthcare services among women with a serious mental illness.

    Christina P.C. Borba;Christina P.C. Borba;Lara DePadilla;Frances A. McCarty;Silke A. von Esenwein

  • Safe Living: The Impact of Unstable Housing Conditions on HIV Risk Reduction Among Female Drug Users

    Kirk W. Elifson;Claire E. Sterk;Katherine P. Theall;Katherine P. Theall

  • Childhood neglect and adulthood involvement in HIV-related risk behaviors

    Hugh Klein;Kirk W. Elifson;Claire E. Sterk

  • Perceived Susceptibility to HIV among Women Differences According to Age

    Katherine P. Theall;Kirk W. Elifson;Claire E. Sterk;Hugh Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine P. Theall
Katherine P. Theall Tulane University
Ralph J. DiClemente
Ralph J. DiClemente New York University
Rachel Jewkes
Rachel Jewkes South African Medical Research Council
Nancy J. Thompson
Nancy J. Thompson Emory University
Kristin Dunkle
Kristin Dunkle South African Medical Research Council
Jennifer R. Havens
Jennifer R. Havens University of Kentucky
Donald C. Reitzes
Donald C. Reitzes Georgia State University
Robert G. Carlson
Robert G. Carlson Wright State University
Eric A. Stewart
Eric A. Stewart Florida State University
Kathryn M. Yount
Kathryn M. Yount Emory University

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