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Karin E. Tobin is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the field of medicine, with a focus on epidemiology, infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, and sociology and political science.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including HIV, drug use, and sexual risk; HIV/AIDS research and interventions; opioid use disorder treatment; LGBTQ health, identity, and policy; sex work and related issues; substance abuse treatment and outcomes; and homelessness and social issues.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Racial Disparities in Overdose Prevention among People Who Inject Drugs" (2020, Journal of Urban Health)
  • "When You're Getting High... You Just Don't Want to Be Around Anybody." A Qualitative Exploration of Reasons for Injecting Alone: Perspectives from Young People Who Inject Drugs (2020, Substance Use & Misuse)
  • "Co-Occurring Opioid Use and Depressive Disorders: Patient Characteristics and Co-Occurring Health Conditions" (2021, Journal of Dual Diagnosis)
  • "Barriers and facilitators to primary care engagement for people who inject drugs: A systematic review" (2022, Journal of Nursing Scholarship)
  • "Community engagement and linkage to care efforts by peer community-health workers to increase PrEP uptake among sexual minority men" (2021, Public Health Nursing)

Tobin frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • AIDS Care
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Urban Health

Their regular co-authors include:

  • Carl A. Latkin (25 joint publications)
  • Abigail K. Winiker (14 joint publications)
  • Omeid Heidari (11 joint publications)
  • Jill Owczarzak (10 joint publications)
  • Melissa Davey-Rothwell (8 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • The relationship between social desirability bias and self-reports of health, substance use, and social network factors among urban substance users in Baltimore, Maryland.

    Carl A. Latkin;Catie Edwards;Melissa A. Davey-Rothwell;Karin E. Tobin

  • Calling emergency medical services during drug overdose: an examination of individual, social and setting correlates

    Karin E. Tobin;Melissa A. Davey;Carl A. Latkin

  • Evaluation of the Staying Alive programme: Training injection drug users to properly administer naloxone and save lives

    Karin E. Tobin;Susan G. Sherman;Peter Beilenson;Christopher Welsh

  • Migration, Neighborhoods, and Networks: Approaches to Understanding How Urban Environmental Conditions Affect Syndemic Adverse Health Outcomes Among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men

    James E. Egan;Victoria Frye;Victoria Frye;Steven P. Kurtz;Carl Latkin

  • Results from a randomized controlled trial of a peer-mentoring intervention to reduce HIV transmission and increase access to care and adherence to HIV medications among HIV-seropositive injection drug users.

    David W. Purcell;Mary H. Latka;Lisa R. Metsch;Carl A. Latkin

  • Social Norms, Social Networks, and HIV Risk Behavior Among Injection Drug Users

    C. A. Latkin;S. J. Kuramoto;M. A. Davey-Rothwell;K. E. Tobin

  • Social network correlates of self-reported non-fatal overdose.

    Carl A Latkin;Wei Hua;Karin Tobin

  • The STEP into Action study: a peer-based, personal risk network-focused HIV prevention intervention with injection drug users in Baltimore, Maryland

    Karin Elizabeth Tobin;Satoko Janet Kuramoto;Melissa Ann Davey-Rothwell;Carl Asher Latkin

  • The relationship between depressive symptoms and nonfatal overdose among a sample of drug users in Baltimore, Maryland

    Karin E. Tobin;Carl A. Latkin

  • Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Peer Mentor HIV/STI Prevention Intervention for Women Over an 18 Month Follow-Up

    Melissa A. Davey-Rothwell;Karin Tobin;Cui Yang;Christina J. Sun

  • "The life they save may be mine": diffusion of overdose prevention information from a city sponsored programme.

    Susan G. Sherman;Donald S. Gann;Karin E. Tobin;Carl A. Latkin

  • Stigma and drug use settings as correlates of self-reported, non-fatal overdose among people who use drugs in Baltimore, Maryland.

    Carl A. Latkin;Rachel E. Gicquelais;Catie Clyde;Lauren Dayton

  • Social network predictors of disclosure of MSM behavior and HIV-positive serostatus among African American MSM in Baltimore, Maryland

    Carl Latkin;Cui Yang;Karin Tobin;Geoffrey Roebuck

  • Awareness and access to naloxone necessary but not sufficient: Examining gaps in the naloxone cascade.

    Karin Tobin;Catie Clyde;Melissa Davey-Rothwell;Carl Latkin

  • Racial Disparities in Overdose Prevention among People Who Inject Drugs

    Lauren Dayton;Karin Tobin;Oluwaseun Falade-Nwulia;Melissa Davey-Rothwell

  • Individual and Social Network Factors that Predict Entry to Drug Treatment

    Melissa A. Davey;Carl A. Latkin;Wei Hua;Karin E. Tobin

  • Differences in the social networks of African American men who have sex with men only and those who have sex with men and women.

    Carl Latkin;Cui Yang;Karin Tobin;Typhanye Penniman

  • Acceptability of A-CASI by HIV-positive IDUs in a multisite, randomized, controlled trial of behavioral intervention (INSPIRE).

    Yuko Mizuno;David W. Purcell;Sonja Mackenzie;Karin E. Tobin

  • Injecting equipment sharing in Russian drug injecting dyads.

    V. Anna Gyarmathy;Nan Li;Karin E. Tobin;Irving F. Hoffman

  • Unprotected Sexual Behavior Among Heterosexual HIV-Positive Injection Drug Using Men: Associations by Partner Type and Partner Serostatus

    David W. Purcell;Yuko Mizuno;Lisa R. Metsch;Richard Garfein

  • Social Desirability Bias and Prevalence of Sexual HIV Risk Behaviors Among People Who Use Drugs in Baltimore, Maryland: Implications for Identifying Individuals Prone to Underreporting Sexual Risk Behaviors

    Amrita Rao;Karin Tobin;Melissa Davey-Rothwell;Carl A. Latkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl A. Latkin
Carl A. Latkin Johns Hopkins University
Amy R. Knowlton
Amy R. Knowlton Johns Hopkins University
Shannon Gwin Mitchell
Shannon Gwin Mitchell Friends Research Institute
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Ellen J. MacKenzie
Ellen J. MacKenzie Johns Hopkins University
Ramin Mojtabai
Ramin Mojtabai Johns Hopkins University

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