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Kristin Dunkle is affiliated with the South African Medical Research Council in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and health professions, with significant contributions in the subfields of health, general health professions, sociology and political science, gender studies, and clinical psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work include intimate partner and family violence, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sex work and related issues, sexual assault and victimization studies, child abuse and trauma, HIV, drug use, sexual risk, and HIV/AIDS research and interventions.

Recent publications by Kristin Dunkle include:

  • Effective prevention of intimate partner violence through couples training: a randomised controlled trial of Indashyikirwa in Rwanda, 2020, BMJ Global Health

Other notable recent papers associated with their research network include:

  • New learnings on drivers of men's physical and/or sexual violence against their female partners, and women's experiences of this, and the implications for prevention interventions, 2020, Global Health Action
  • Intimate partner violence among women with and without disabilities: a pooled analysis of baseline data from seven violence-prevention programmes, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • HIV-Prevalence in South Africa by settlement type: A repeat population-based cross-sectional analysis of men and women, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Community activism as a strategy to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Rwanda: Results of a community randomised trial, 2020, Journal of Global Health

The scientist has published extensively in several frequent venues including:

  • Global Health Action
  • BMJ Global Health
  • Journal of Global Health
  • BMC Global and Public Health
  • BMJ Open

Kristin Dunkle collaborates frequently with several prominent researchers in their field. Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Rachel Jewkes
  • Andrew Gibbs
  • Esnat Chirwa
  • Mercilene Machisa
  • Sangeeta Chatterji

Best Publications

  • Gender-based violence, relationship power, and risk of HIV infection in women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa

    Kristin L Dunkle;Rachel K Jewkes;Heather C Brown;Glenda E Gray

  • Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study

    Rachel K Jewkes;Rachel K Jewkes;Kristin Dunkle;Mzikazi Nduna;Nwabisa Shai

  • Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Rachel Jewkes;M Nduna;J Levin;N Jama

  • Transactional sex among women in Soweto, South Africa: prevalence, risk factors and association with HIV infection

    Kristin L. Dunkle;Rachel K. Jewkes;Heather C. Brown;Glenda E. Gray

  • New heterosexually transmitted HIV infections in married or cohabiting couples in urban Zambia and Rwanda: an analysis of survey and clinical data

    Kristin L Dunkle;Rob Stephenson;Etienne Karita;Elwyn Chomba

  • Rape perpetration by young, rural South African men: Prevalence, patterns and risk factors

    Rachel K. Jewkes;Kristin Dunkle;Mary P. Koss;Jonathan B. Levin

  • Gender Inequitable Masculinity and Sexual Entitlement in Rape Perpetration South Africa: Findings of a Cross-Sectional Study

    Rachel Jewkes;Yandisa Sikweyiya;Robert Morrell;Kristin Dunkle

  • Transactional sex with casual and main partners among young South African men in the rural Eastern Cape: prevalence, predictors, and associations with gender-based violence.

    Kristin L. Dunkle;Rachel K. Jewkes;Mzikazi Nduna;Nwabisa Jama

  • Prevalence and Patterns of Gender-based Violence and Revictimization among Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in Soweto, South Africa

    Kristin L. Dunkle;Rachel K. Jewkes;Heather C. Brown;Mieko Yoshihama

  • A cluster randomized-controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of Stepping Stones in preventing HIV infections and promoting safer sexual behaviour amongst youth in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: trial design, methods and baseline findings.

    R. Jewkes;M. Nduna;J. Levin;N. Jama

  • Perpetration of partner violence and HIV risk behaviour among young men in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    Kristin L Dunkle;Rachel K Jewkes;Mzikazi Nduna;Jonathan Levin

  • Associations between childhood adversity and depression, substance abuse and HIV and HSV2 incident infections in rural South African youth.

    Rachel K. Jewkes;Kristin Dunkle;Mzikazi Nduna;P. Nwabisa Jama

  • Factors associated with HIV sero-status in young rural South African women: connections between intimate partner violence and HIV

    Rachel K. Jewkes;Kristin L. Dunkle;Kristin L. Dunkle;Mzikazi Nduna;Jonathan B. Levin

  • Gender-based violence and HIV: reviewing the evidence for links and causal pathways in the general population and high-risk groups.

    Kristin L. Dunkle;Michele R. Decker

  • Domestic violence against women in India: A systematic review of a decade of quantitative studies

    Ameeta Kalokhe;Carlos Del Rio;Kristin Dunkle;Robert Stephenson

  • Associations between depressive symptoms, sexual behaviour and relationship characteristics: a prospective cohort study of young women and men in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

    Mzikazi Nduna;Rachel K Jewkes;Kristin L Dunkle;Nwabisa P Jama Shai

  • The relationship between intimate partner violence, rape and HIV amongst South African men: a cross-sectional study

    Rachel Jewkes;Yandisa Sikweyiya;Robert Morrell;Kristin Dunkle

  • Women's and men's reports of past-year prevalence of intimate partner violence and rape and women's risk factors for intimate partner violence: A multicountry cross-sectional study in Asia and the Pacific

    Rachel Jewkes;Emma Fulu;Ruchira Tabassam Naved;Esnat Chirwa

  • Effective HIV prevention requires gender-transformative work with men

    Kristin L Dunkle;Rachel Jewkes

  • Economically Motivated Relationships and Transactional Sex Among Unmarried African American and White Women: Results from a U.S. National Telephone Survey

    Kristin L. Dunkle;Gina M Wingood;Christina M. Camp;Ralph Joseph Diclemente

  • Understanding men's health and Use of violence:

    Rachel Jewkes;Yandisa Sikweyiya;Robert Morrell;Kristin Dunkle

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Jewkes
Rachel Jewkes South African Medical Research Council
Robert Morrell
Robert Morrell University of Cape Town
Mary P. Koss
Mary P. Koss University of Arizona
Hannah L.F. Cooper
Hannah L.F. Cooper Emory University
Rob Stephenson
Rob Stephenson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lori Heise
Lori Heise Johns Hopkins University
Abigail M. Hatcher
Abigail M. Hatcher University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ralph J. DiClemente
Ralph J. DiClemente New York University
Gina M. Wingood
Gina M. Wingood Columbia University
Michael Windle
Michael Windle Emory University

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