2026 Hannah L.F. Cooper: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	49	2990	2742	1444	1305	191	8207

Overview

Hannah L.F. Cooper is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has a research portfolio concentrated in Medicine, with a strong focus on Epidemiology and Public Health. Their scholarly work explores topics related to opioid use, HIV, and substance abuse treatment within rural and urban contexts.

Their research spans several interconnected topics, including:

HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Homelessness and Social Issues
Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
Health Policy Implementation Science

Their most frequent co-authors include:

April M. Young
Umedjon Ibragimov
Ryan P. Westergaard
Judith Feinberg
P. Todd Korthuis

Major venues where Hannah L.F. Cooper has published include:

UNC Libraries
Harm Reduction Journal
International Journal of Drug Policy
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Cooper are:

"Buprenorphine dispensing in an epicenter of the U.S. opioid epidemic: A case study of the rural risk environment in Appalachian Kentucky", 2020, International Journal of Drug Policy
"Association of Methamphetamine and Opioid Use With Nonfatal Overdose in Rural Communities", 2022, JAMA Network Open
"The Rural Opioid Initiative Consortium description: providing evidence to Understand the Fourth Wave of the Opioid Crisis", 2022, Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
"When Prescribing Isn't Enough - Pharmacy-Level Barriers to Buprenorphine Access", 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
"Factors that influence enrollment in syringe services programs in rural areas: a qualitative study among program clients in Appalachian Kentucky", 2021, Harm Reduction Journal

The subfields of Cooper's research reflect a diverse interest in the epidemiological patterns and public health implications of drug use and infectious diseases, including:

Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
General Health Professions
Infectious Diseases
Sociology and Political Science

Best Publications

The impact of a police drug crackdown on drug injectors' ability to practice harm reduction: a qualitative study.

Hannah Cooper;Lisa Moore;Sofia Gruskin;Nancy Krieger

349
Citations
War on Drugs Policing and Police Brutality.

Hannah L F Cooper

271
Citations
Understanding racial HIV/STI disparities in black and white men who have sex with men: a multilevel approach.

Patrick S Sullivan;John Peterson;Eli S Rosenberg;Colleen Kelley

247
Citations
Explaining racial disparities in HIV incidence in black and white men who have sex with men in Atlanta, GA: a prospective observational cohort study.

Patrick S. Sullivan;Eli S. Rosenberg;Travis H. Sanchez;Colleen F. Kelley

245
Citations
A Review of Qualitative Data Analysis Practices in Health Education and Health Behavior Research.

Ilana G. Raskind;Rachel C. Shelton;Dawn L. Comeau;Hannah L. F. Cooper

244
Citations
Association between an Internet-Based Measure of Area Racism and Black Mortality

David H. Chae;Sean Clouston;Mark L. Hatzenbuehler;Michael R. Kramer

222
Citations
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

211
Citations
Characterizing Perceived Police Violence: Implications for Public Health

Hannah Cooper;Lisa Moore;Sofia Gruskin;Nancy Krieger

198
Citations
Structural and social contexts of HIV risk Among African Americans.

Samuel R. Friedman;Hannah L. F. Cooper;Andrew H. Osborne

195
Citations
The intersectional risk environment of people who use drugs.

Alexandra B. Collins;Jade Boyd;Hannah L.F. Cooper;Ryan McNeil

187
Citations
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

181
Citations
Estimates of injecting drug users at the national and local level in developing and transitional countries, and gender and age distribution

C Aceijas;S R Friedman;H L F Cooper;L Wiessing

181
Citations
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

170
Citations
Understanding and defining sanitation insecurity: women’s gendered experiences of urination, defecation and menstruation in rural Odisha, India

Bethany A. Caruso;Thomas F. Clasen;Craig Hadley;Kathryn M. Yount

160
Citations
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

143
Citations
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

136
Citations
Area racism and birth outcomes among Blacks in the United States.

David H. Chae;Sean Clouston;Connor D. Martz;Mark L. Hatzenbuehler

134
Citations
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

119
Citations
Metropolitan isolation segregation and Black-White disparities in very preterm birth: a test of mediating pathways and variance explained.

Michael S Kramer;Hannah L F Cooper;Carolyn D Drews-Botsch;Lance A Waller

118
Citations
Buprenorphine dispensing in an epicenter of the U.S. opioid epidemic: A case study of the rural risk environment in Appalachian Kentucky

Hannah Lf Cooper;David H. Cloud;Patricia R. Freeman;Monica Fadanelli

101
Citations
Condom use among young women: modeling the theory of gender and power.

Lara DePadilla;Michael Windle;Gina Wingood;Hannah Cooper

97
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel R. Friedman National Development and Research Institutes

Barbara Tempalski National Development and Research Institutes

Gina M. Wingood Columbia University

Adaora A. Adimora University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ron Stall University of Pittsburgh

Michael R. Kramer Emory University

Patrick S. Sullivan Emory University

Susan Tross Columbia University

Gabriela Paz-Bailey Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Aimee N. C. Campbell Columbia University Medical Center

External Links

Personal website of Hannah L.F. Cooper Google Scholar page

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