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Overview

Lance M. Pollack is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and health professions, with notable subfields including general health professions, infectious diseases, epidemiology, social psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work covers various key topics, such as:

  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Pollack has contributed to several recent research papers in peer-reviewed journals, including:

  • "Improving contraceptive use among Latina adolescents: A cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating an mHealth application, Health-E You/Salud iTu" (2021) published in Contraception
  • "We are Family: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study of an HIV Prevention Intervention With the House Ball and Gay Family Communities" (2021) in JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • "HIV risk behavior profiles among men who have sex with men interested in donating blood: Findings from the Assessing Donor Variability and New Concepts in Eligibility study" (2023) in Transfusion
  • "Structural Inequities, Syndemics, and Resilience: The Critical Role of Social Support in Overcoming Barriers and Empowering Engagement in HIV Care for Young Black Sexual-Minority Men in the US South" (2023) in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
  • "Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Dissemination: Adapting Diffusion Theory to Examine PrEP Adoption" (2021) in AIDS and Behavior

Frequent publishing venues for Pollack include:

  • AIDS and Behavior
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Transfusion
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • JMIR Formative Research

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Pollack's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Susan M. Kegeles
  • Kathleen Tebb
  • Erik D. Storholm
  • Daniel Siconolfi
  • Wilson Vincent

Best Publications

  • Association of co-occurring psychosocial health problems and increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS among urban men who have sex with men.

    Ron Stall;Thomas C. Mills;John Williamson;Trevor Hart

  • Alcohol use, drug use and alcohol-related problems among men who have sex with men: the Urban Men's Health Study.

    Ron Stall;Jay P. Paul;Greg Greenwood;Lance M. Pollack

  • The impact of health information on the internet on the physician-patient relationship: patient perceptions.

    Elizabeth Murray;Bernard Lo;Lance Pollack;Karen Donelan

  • The Impact of Health Information on the Internet on Health Care and the Physician-Patient Relationship: National U.S. Survey among 1.050 U.S. Physicians

    Elizabeth Murray;Bernard Lo;Lance Pollack;Karen Donelan

  • Suicide Attempts Among Gay and Bisexual Men: Lifetime Prevalence and Antecedents

    Jay P. Paul;Joseph Catania;Lance M. Pollack;Judith Moskowitz

  • Battering Victimization Among a Probability-Based Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men

    Gregory L. Greenwood;Michael V. Relf;Boyen Huang;Lance M. Pollack

  • Distress and depression in men who have sex with men: the Urban Men's Health Study.

    Thomas C. Mills;Jay Paul;Ron Stall;Lance M. Pollack

  • EFFECTS OF INTERVIEWER GENDER, INTERVIEWER CHOICE, AND ITEM WORDING ON RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING SEXUAL BEHAVIOR

    Joseph A. Catania;Diane Binson;Jesse Canchola;Lance M. Pollack

  • The continuing HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men

    Joseph A. Catania;Dennis Osmond;Ronald D. Stall;Lance Pollack

  • Understanding childhood sexual abuse as a predictor of sexual risk-taking among men who have sex with men: The Urban Men's Health Study

    Jay P Paul;Joseph Catania;Lance Pollack;Ronald Stall

  • Differential HIV Risk in Bathhouses and Public Cruising Areas

    Diane Binson;William J. Woods;Lance Pollack;Jay Paul

  • Male Sexual Health Questionnaire (MSHQ): scale development and psychometric validation

    Raymond C. Rosen;Joseph Catania;Lance Pollack;Stanley Althof

  • Disclosing HIV seropositivity to significant others

    Robert B. Hays;Leon McKusick;Lance Pollack;Robert Hilliard

  • Questionnaire Response Bias and Face-to-Face Interview Sample Bias in Sexuality Research

    Joseph A. Catania;Lois J. McDermott;Lance M. Pollack

  • Stress, coping, and high-risk sexual behavior.

    Susan Folkman;Margaret A. Chesney;Lance Pollack;Connie Phillips

  • Clinical decision-making: Patients' preferences and experiences.

    Elizabeth Murray;Lance Pollack;Martha White;Bernard Lo

  • Disparities in Smoking Between the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Population and the General Population in California

    Elisabeth P. Gruskin;Gregory L. Greenwood;Marilyn Matevia;Lance M. Pollack

  • Relapse from safer sex: the next challenge for AIDS prevention efforts.

    Stall R;Ekstrand M;Pollack L;McKusick L

  • Development and Validation of Four-Item Version of Male Sexual Health Questionnaire to Assess Ejaculatory Dysfunction

    Raymond C. Rosen;Joseph A. Catania;Stanley E. Althof;Lance M. Pollack

  • Longitudinal predictors of reductions in unprotected anal intercourse among gay men in San Francisco: the AIDS Behavioral Research Project.

    L McKusick;T J Coates;S F Morin;L Pollack

  • Whose Gay Community? Social Class, Sexual Self-Expression, and Gay Community Involvement.

    Donald C. Barrett;Lance M. Pollack

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph A. Catania
Joseph A. Catania Oregon State University
Diane Binson
Diane Binson University of California, San Francisco
Jay P. Paul
Jay P. Paul University of California, San Francisco
Ron Stall
Ron Stall University of Pittsburgh
Susan M. Kegeles
Susan M. Kegeles University of California, San Francisco
Torsten B. Neilands
Torsten B. Neilands University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray University College London
Judith T. Moskowitz
Judith T. Moskowitz Northwestern University
John L. Peterson
John L. Peterson Georgia State University
Gary W. Harper
Gary W. Harper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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