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Overview

Martina Morris is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. The focus of their work spans several subfields, including Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Sociology and Political Science, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Sex work and related issues, Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Martina Morris has authored or co-authored several recent papers, including:

  • Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Egocentric sexual networks of men who have sex with men in the United States: Results from the ARTnet study (2020), published in Epidemics
  • ergm 4: New Features for Analyzing Exponential-Family Random Graph Models (2023), published in Journal of Statistical Software
  • A Behavioral Cascade of HIV Seroadaptation Among US Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Era of PrEP and U = U (2021), published in AIDS and Behavior
  • HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemic Potential of Networks of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Two Cities (2021), published in Epidemiology

Their research appears frequently in the following publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • British Journal of Nursing
  • Journal of Statistical Software

Martina Morris collaborates regularly with a group of coauthors, including:

  • Samuel M. Jenness
  • Travis Sanchez
  • Patrick Janulis
  • Steven M. Goodreau
  • Chad Klumb

Best Publications

  • ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks.

    David R. Hunter;Mark S. Handcock;Carter T. Butts;Steven M. Goodreau

  • Concurrent partnerships and the spread of HIV.

    Martina Morris;Mirjam Kretzschmar

  • Birds of a Feather, or Friend of a Friend? Using Exponential Random Graph Models to Investigate Adolescent Social Networks

    Steven M. Goodreau;James A. Kitts;Martina Morris

  • Inequality in earnings at the close of the twentieth century

    Martina Morris;Bruce Western

  • statnet: Software Tools for the Representation, Visualization, Analysis and Simulation of Network Data.

    Mark S. Handcock;David R. Hunter;Carter T. Butts;Steven M. Goodreau

  • Prevalence of chlamydial and gonococcal infections among young adults in the United States.

    William C. Miller;Carol A. Ford;Martina Morris;Mark S. Handcock

  • Specification of Exponential-Family Random Graph Models: Terms and Computational Aspects.

    Martina Morris;Mark S. Handcock;David R. Hunter

  • A statnet Tutorial

    Steven M. Goodreau;Mark S. Handcock;David R. Hunter;Carter T. Butts

  • Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences

    Mark Stephen Handcock;Martina Morris

  • Concurrent partnerships and transmission dynamics in networks

    Martina Morris;Mirjam Kretzschmar

  • Concurrent Partnerships and HIV Prevalence Disparities by Race: Linking Science and Public Health Practice

    Martina Morris;Ann E. Kurth;Deven T. Hamilton;James Moody

  • Bridge populations in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Thailand

    Martina Morris;Chai Podhisita;Maria J. Wawer;Mark S. Handcock

  • Women's Gains or Men's Losses? A Closer Look at the Shrinking Gender Gap in Earnings

    Annette Bernhardt;Martina Morris;Mark S. Handcock

  • Sexual networks and HIV.

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  • Divergent Paths: Economic Mobility in the New American Labor Market

    Annette Bernhardt;Martina Morris;Mark S. Handcock;Marc A. Scott

  • A comparison of sexual behavior patterns among men who have sex with men and heterosexual men and women.

    Sara Nelson Glick;Martina Morris;Betsy Foxman;Sevgi O. Aral

  • Network epidemiology : a handbook for survey design and data collection

    Martina Morris

  • Epidemiology and Social Networks:: Modeling Structured Diffusion

    Martina Morris

  • The prevalence of trichomoniasis in young adults in the United States.

    William C Miller;Heidi Swygard;Marcia M Hobbs;Carol A Ford

  • Economic Inequality: New Methods for New Trends

    Martina Morris;Annette D. Bernhardt;Mark S. Handcock

  • Telling tails explain the discrepancy in sexual partner reports

    M. Morris

  • Relative Distribution Methods

    Mark S. Handcock;Martina Morris

  • Timing is everything: international variations in historical sexual partnership concurrency and HIV prevalence.

    Martina Morris;Helen Epstein;Maria Wawer

Frequent Co-Authors

James Moody
James Moody Duke University
Carol A. Ford
Carol A. Ford Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Kathleen Mullan Harris University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Travis Sanchez
Travis Sanchez Emory University
Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
Alun L. Lloyd
Alun L. Lloyd North Carolina State University
J. Richard Udry
J. Richard Udry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nigel Gilbert
Nigel Gilbert University of Surrey
Peter Challenor
Peter Challenor University of Exeter
Brian Mustanski
Brian Mustanski Northwestern University

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