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Overview

Jonathan M. Ellen is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology, medicine, and health professions with particular focus on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, and related areas.

Their work covers the following main and subfields of study:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine
  • Health Professions
  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Epidemiology

Key research topics addressed in their publications include:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk

Jonathan M. Ellen has contributed to publications in various venues, with repeated output in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • AIDS Care
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • BMC Public Health
  • Prevention Science

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Jonathan M. Ellen include:

  • Mindfulness instruction for medication adherence among adolescents and young adults living with HIV: a randomized controlled trial (2022) - AIDS Care
  • Giving syphilis and gonorrhea to friends: using in-person friendship networks to find additional cases of gonorrhea and syphilis (2020) - BMC Public Health
  • The Impact of Relationship Stressors on Trust and Prorelationship Behavior Within Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Systems Approach (2020) - Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Investigating the Relative Influence of Romantic Sex Partners and Close Friends on Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use (2023) - Prevention Science
  • Giving syphilis and gonorrhea to friends: Using in-person friendship networks to find additional cases of gonorrhea and syphilis (2020) - Research Square

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Deanna Kerrigan
  • Janet E. Rosenbaum
  • Jacky M. Jennings
  • Laurel Borkovic
  • Charleen Wylie

Best Publications

  • Relationship of alcohol use and risky sexual behavior: a review and analysis of findings

    Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher;Susan G. Millstein;Jonathan M. Ellen

  • The role of behavioral experience in judging risks.

    Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher;Susan G. Millstein;Jonathan M. Ellen;Nancy E. Adler

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Urban Youth

    Erica M.S. Sibinga;Deanna Kerrigan;Miriam Stewart;Kelly Johnson

  • School-Based Mindfulness Instruction: An RCT.

    Erica M.S. Sibinga;Lindsey Webb;Sharon R. Ghazarian;Jonathan M. Ellen;Jonathan M. Ellen

  • School-based mindfulness instruction for urban male youth: a small randomized controlled trial.

    Erica M.S. Sibinga;Carisa Perry-Parrish;Shang en Chung;Sara B. Johnson;Sara B. Johnson

  • "I Always Felt I Had to Prove My Manhood": Homosexuality, Masculinity, Gender Role Strain, and HIV Risk Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men.

    Errol Lamont Fields;Laura M. Bogart;Katherine C. Smith;David J. Malebranche

  • Environmental-structural factors significantly associated with consistent condom use among female sex workers in the Dominican Republic.

    Deanna Kerrigan;Jonathan M. Ellen;Luis Moreno;Santo Rosario

  • Attitudes about sexual disclosure and perceptions of stigma and shame

    S. D. Cunningham;J. Tschann;J. E. Gurvey;J. D. Fortenberry

  • Concurrent sex partners and risk for sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents.

    Melanie D. Rosenberg;Jill E. Gurvey;Nancy Adler;Miranda B. V. Dunlop

  • Relative power between sexual partners and condom use among adolescents

    Jeanne M Tschann;Nancy E Adler;Susan G Millstein;Jill E Gurvey

  • The trade-off between hormonal contraceptives and condoms among adolescents.

    Mary A. Ott;Nancy E. Adler;Susan G. Millstein;Jeanne M. Tschann

  • The Influence of Parental Monitoring on Adolescent Sexual Initiation

    John A. Sieverding;Nancy Adler;Stephanie Witt;Jonathan Ellen

  • The impact of stigma on medication adherence among HIV-positive adolescent and young adult females and the moderating effects of coping and satisfaction with health care.

    Jaime Martinez;Gary Harper;Russell A. Carleton;Sybil Hosek

  • Interactions Between Secondhand Smoke and Genes That Affect Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease

    J. Michael Collaco;Lori Vanscoy;Lindsay Bremer;Kathryn McDougal

  • Patient-Related Risks for Nonadherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV-Infected Youth in the United States: A Study of Prevalence and Interactions

    Bret J. Rudy;Debra A. Murphy;D. Robert Harris;Larry Muenz

  • Relationships between perceived STD-related stigma, STD-related shame and STD screening among a household sample of adolescents.

    Shayna D. Cunningham;Deanna L. Kerrigan;Jacky M. Jennings;Jonathan M. Ellen

  • Geographic Identification of High Gonorrhea Transmission Areas in Baltimore, Maryland

    Jacky M. Jennings;Frank C. Curriero;David Celentano;Jonathan M. Ellen

  • Do differences in sexual behaviors account for the racial/ethnic differences in adolescents' self-reported history of a sexually transmitted disease?

    Jonathan M. Ellen;Sevgi O. Aral;Laurence S. Madger

  • Adolescents' self-efficacy to communicate about sex: its role in condom attitudes, commitment, and use.

    Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher;Rhonda Y. Kropp;Cherrie B. Boyer;Jeanne M. Tschann

  • The Role of Relationship Intimacy in Consistent Condom Use Among Female Sex Workers and Their Regular Paying Partners in the Dominican Republic

    Laura Murray;Luis Moreno;Santo Rosario;Jonathan Ellen

  • Rapid HIV testing of clients of a mobile STD/HIV clinic

    Thomas S. Liang;Emily Erbelding;Claude A. Jacob;Howard Wicker

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Dennis Fortenberry
J. Dennis Fortenberry Indiana University
Nancy E. Adler
Nancy E. Adler University of California, San Francisco
Deanna Kerrigan
Deanna Kerrigan Johns Hopkins University
Jeanne M. Tschann
Jeanne M. Tschann University of California, San Francisco
Gary W. Harper
Gary W. Harper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Susan G. Sherman
Susan G. Sherman Johns Hopkins University
Charlotte A. Gaydos
Charlotte A. Gaydos Johns Hopkins University
Charles E. Irwin
Charles E. Irwin University of California, San Francisco
Ralph B. Taylor
Ralph B. Taylor Temple University
Debra A. Murphy
Debra A. Murphy University of California, Los Angeles

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