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Overview

Michele R. Decker is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Medicine, and Health Professions, with a strong focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Health, Epidemiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work concentrates on main topics including:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception

Michele R. Decker has published extensively in journals such as:

  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Journal of Family Violence
  • BMJ Open
  • BMJ Global Health
  • BMC Public Health

Frequent collaborators of Decker include:

  • Shannon N. Wood
  • Nancy Glass
  • Peter Gichangi
  • Mary Thiongo
  • Charvonne N. Holliday

Recent notable publications by Michele R. Decker include:

  • "Gender-based violence during COVID-19 among adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi, Kenya: a mixed-methods prospective study over 18 months" (2022) published in BMJ Global Health
  • "Safety decision-making and planning mobile app for intimate partner violence prevention and response: randomised controlled trial in Kenya" (2020) published in BMJ Global Health
  • "Defining Justice: Restorative and Retributive Justice Goals Among Intimate Partner Violence Survivors" (2020) published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Other influential papers associated with their area of research include works on reproductive coercion, intimate partner violence, and the vulnerabilities of female sex workers, highlighting the broader context and interdisciplinary nature of this field.

Best Publications

  • Burden of HIV among female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Stefan Baral;Chris Beyrer;Kathryn Muessig;Tonia Poteat

  • Pregnancy coercion, intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy ☆

    Elizabeth Miller;Michele R. Decker;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi

  • Intimate partner violence victimization prior to and during pregnancy among women residing in 26 U.S. states: Associations with maternal and neonatal health

    Jay G. Silverman;Michele R. Decker;Elizabeth Reed;Anita Raj

  • Masculine Gender Roles Associated with Increased Sexual Risk and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration among Young Adult Men

    M. Christina Santana;Anita Raj;Michele R. Decker;Ana La Marche

  • “Coaching Boys into Men”: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Dating Violence Prevention Program

    Elizabeth Miller;Daniel J. Tancredi;Heather L. McCauley;Michele R. Decker

  • Human rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV

    Michele R. Decker;Anna-Louise Crago;Sandra Ka Hon Chu;Susan G. Sherman

  • Intimate partner violence and HIV infection among married Indian women

    Jay G. Silverman;Michele R. Decker;Niranjan Saggurti;Donta Balaiah

  • The Effect of Maternal Child Marriage on Morbidity and Mortality of Children Under 5 in India: Cross Sectional Study of a Nationally Representative Sample

    Anita Raj;Niranjan Saggurti;Michael Winter;Alan Labonte

  • Intimate partner violence and unwanted pregnancy, miscarriage, induced abortion, and stillbirth among a national sample of Bangladeshi women

    Jay G. Silverman;Jhumka Gupta;Michele R. Decker;Navneet Kapur

  • An action agenda for HIV and sex workers

    Chris Beyrer;Anna Louise Crago;Linda Gail Bekker;Jenny Butler

  • 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

  • HIV Prevalence and Predictors of Infection in Sex-Trafficked Nepalese Girls and Women

    Jay G. Silverman;Michele R. Decker;Jhumka Gupta;Ayonija Maheshwari

  • A family planning clinic partner violence intervention to reduce risk associated with reproductive coercion

    Elizabeth Miller;Michele R. Decker;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi

  • Intimate partner violence functions as both a risk marker and risk factor for women's HIV infection: findings from Indian husband-wife dyads.

    Michele R. Decker;George R. Seage;David A. Hemenway;Anita Raj

  • The global response and unmet actions for HIV and sex workers.

    Kate Shannon;Anna Louise Crago;Stefan D. Baral;Linda Gail Bekker

  • A conceptual framework for early adolescence: a platform for research

    Robert W. Blum;Nan Marie Astone;Michele R. Decker;Venkatraman Chandra Mouli

  • Dating Violence and Sexually Transmitted Disease/HIV Testing and Diagnosis Among Adolescent Females

    Michele R. Decker;Jay G. Silverman;Anita Raj

  • Recent reproductive coercion and unintended pregnancy among female family planning clients

    Elizabeth Miller;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi;Michele R. Decker

  • Witness of intimate partner violence in childhood and perpetration of intimate partner violence in adulthood.

    Andrea L. Roberts;Stephen E. Gilman;Garrett Fitzmaurice;Michele R. Decker

  • Asking about intimate partner violence: advice from female survivors to health care providers

    Judy C. Chang;Michele R. Decker;Kathryn E. Moracco;Sandra L. Martin

  • One-year follow-up of a coach-delivered dating violence prevention program: A cluster randomized controlled trial

    Elizabeth Miller;Daniel J. Tancredi;Heather L. McCauley;Michele R. Decker

  • Original research article Pregnancy coercion, intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy ☆

    Elizabeth Miller;Michele R. Decker;Heather L. McCauley;Daniel J. Tancredi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay G. Silverman
Jay G. Silverman University of California, San Diego
Anita Raj
Anita Raj University of California, San Diego
Heather L. McCauley
Heather L. McCauley Michigan State University
Susan G. Sherman
Susan G. Sherman Johns Hopkins University
Jhumka Gupta
Jhumka Gupta George Mason University
Andrea L. Wirtz
Andrea L. Wirtz Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Reed
Elizabeth Reed San Diego State University
Stefan Baral
Stefan Baral Johns Hopkins University
Nancy Glass
Nancy Glass Johns Hopkins University
Niranjan Saggurti
Niranjan Saggurti Population Council

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