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  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

James Curran is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia, with a primary focus on Medicine and Health Professions. Their research spans several subfields including General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their academic contributions address a range of topics, notably:

  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Health and Conflict Studies

James Curran has published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • JAMA
  • The Lancet HIV
  • Public Health Reports

Their recent papers feature the following works:

  • "A Data Visualization and Dissemination Resource to Support HIV Prevention and Care at the Local Level: Analysis and Uses of the AIDSVu Public Data Resource" (2020), Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • "Reflections on 40 Years of AIDS" (2021), Emerging infectious diseases
  • "The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Ensure a More Successful Future for Science and Public Health" (2021), JAMA
  • "Association of state-level PrEP coverage and new HIV diagnoses in the USA from 2012 to 2022: an ecological analysis of the population impact of PrEP" (2025), The Lancet HIV
  • "Remarks by James W. Curran Upon Receipt of the ASPPH Welch-Rose Award for Distinction in Public Health" (2023), Public Health Reports

Frequent co-authors associated with James Curran include:

  • Patrick S. Sullivan
  • Cory Woodyatt
  • Chelsea Koski
  • Elizabeth Pembleton
  • Pema McGuinness

James Curran was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • 1993 Revised Classification System for HIV Infection and Expanded Surveillance Case Definition for AIDS Among Adolescents and Adults

    Kenneth G. Castro;John W. Ward;Laurence Slutsker;James W. Buehler

  • De-Westernizing Media Studies

    James Curran;Myung-Jin Park

  • Researching the small enterprise

    James Curran;Robert A. Blackburn

  • SUMSS: a wide-field radio imaging survey of the southern sky – II. The source catalogue

    T. Mauch;T. Murphy;H. J. Buttery;J. Curran

  • Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy A Comparative Study

    James Curran;Shanto Iyengar;Anker Brink Lund;Inka Salovaara-Moring

  • Mass Media and Society

    James Curran;Michael Gurevitch

  • Scaling Up Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-Limited Settings: Treatment Guidelines for a Public Health Approach

    James Curran;Haile Debas;Monisha Arya

  • Perinatal transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 to infants of seropositive women in Zaire.

    Robert W. Ryder;Wato Nsa;Susan E. Hassig;Frieda Behets

  • Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy?

    James Curran;Robert A. Blackburn

  • Misunderstanding the Internet

    James Curran;Natalie Fenton;Des Freedman

  • Wide-coverage efficient statistical parsing with ccg and log-linear models

    Stephen Clark;Stephen Clark;James R. Curran;James R. Curran

  • The prevention of hepatitis B with vaccine. Report of the centers for disease control multi-center efficacy trial among homosexual men.

    Donald P. Francis;Stephen C. Hadler;Sumner E. Thompson;James E. Maynard

  • Risk of human immunodeficiency virus transmission from heterosexual adults with transfusion-associated infections.

    Thomas A. Peterman;Rand L. Stoneburner;James R. Allen;Harold W. Jaffe

  • National Case-Control Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in Homosexual Men: Part 1, Epidemiologic Results

    Harold W. Jaffe;Keewhan Choi;Pauline A. Thomas;Harry W. Haverkos

  • Learning multilingual named entity recognition from Wikipedia

    Joel Nothman;Nicky Ringland;Will Radford;Tara Murphy

  • Networks and Small Firms: Constructs, Methodological Strategies and Some Findings:

    James Curran;Robin Jarvis;Robert A. Blackburn;Sharon Black

  • Contesting media power: alternative media in a networked world

    Nick Couldry;James Curran

  • Prevalence of HIV infection in childbearing women in the United States. Surveillance using newborn blood samples.

    Marta Gwinn;Marguerite Pappaioanou;J. Richard George;W. Harry Hannon

  • Linguistically Motivated Large-Scale NLP with C&C and Boxer

    James Curran;Stephen Clark;Johan Bos

  • Media Systems and the Political Information Environment: A Cross-National Comparison

    Toril Aalberg;Peter van Aelst;James Curran

  • Parsing the WSJ Using CCG and Log-Linear Models

    Stephen Clark;James R. Curran

  • Evaluating Entity Linking with Wikipedia

    Ben Hachey;Will Radford;Joel Nothman;Matthew Honnibal

  • Power without responsibility: The press and broadcasting in Britain

    James Curran;Jean Seaton

  • Language independent NER using a maximum entropy tagger

    James R. Curran;Stephen Clark

  • From Distributional to Semantic Similarity

    James Richard Curran

  • Wide-coverage semantic representations from a CCG parser

    Johan Bos;Stephen Clark;Mark Steedman;James R. Curran

  • Improvements in Automatic Thesaurus Extraction

    James R. Curran;Marc Moens

  • Compact continuum source finding for next generation radio surveys

    P. J. Hancock;T. Murphy;B. M. Gaensler;A. Hopkins;A. Hopkins

  • The importance of supertagging for wide-coverage CCG parsing

    Stephen Clark;James R. Curran

  • Bootstrapping POS taggers using unlabelled data

    Stephen Clark;James R. Curran;Miles Osborne

  • blobcat: software to catalogue flood‐filled blobs in radio images of total intensity and linear polarization

    Christopher A Hales;Christopher A Hales;Tara L Murphy;James R Curran;Enno Middelberg

  • Investigating GIS and smoothing for maximum entropy taggers

    James R. Curran;Stephen Clark

  • Named Entity Recognition in Wikipedia

    Dominic Balasuriya;Nicky Ringland;Joel Nothman;Tara Murphy

  • VAST: An ASKAP Survey for Variables and Slow Transients

    Tara Murphy;Shami Chatterjee;David L. Kaplan;Jay Banyer

  • Transforming Wikipedia into Named Entity Training Data

    Joel Nothman;James R Curran;Tara Murphy

  • Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank

    David Vadas;James Curran

  • Parser Showdown at the Wall Street Corral: An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Parser Output

    Jonathan K. Kummerfeld;David Hall;James R. Curran;Dan Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold W. Jaffe
Harold W. Jaffe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David Rowe
David Rowe Western Sydney University
Robert Colebunders
Robert Colebunders University of Antwerp
Anthony D. Smith
Anthony D. Smith London School of Economics and Political Science
Donald P. Francis
Donald P. Francis Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Joseph B. McCormick
Joseph B. McCormick The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Gerald Schochetman
Gerald Schochetman Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Alan E. Greenberg
Alan E. Greenberg George Washington University
James E. Maynard
James E. Maynard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Hans J. Eysenck
Hans J. Eysenck King's College London

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