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Overview

Nabila El-Bassel is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, notably Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research covers a range of topics with a focus on HIV, drug use, and sexual risk. Additional main topics include opioid use disorder treatment, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, sex work and related issues, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and health policy implementation science.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Research on Social Work Practice
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • JAMA Network Open

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, among whom the most frequent are:

  • Louisa Gilbert (40 publications)
  • Timothy Hunt (36 publications)
  • Elwin Wu (33 publications)
  • Dawn Goddard-Eckrich (26 publications)
  • Sholpan Primbetova (20 publications)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Nabila El-Bassel include:

  • What is the prevalence of and trend in opioid use disorder in the United States from 2010 to 2019? Using multiplier approaches to estimate prevalence for an unknown population size, 2022, Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
  • The HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-term SM) Communities Study: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial at the community level to reduce opioid overdose deaths through implementation of an integrated set of evidence-based practices, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Potential Influences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Drug Use and HIV Care Among People Living with HIV and Substance Use Disorders: Experience from a Pilot mHealth Intervention, 2020, AIDS and Behavior
  • Community engagement to implement evidence-based practices in the HEALing communities study, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Medication treatment for opioid use disorder in the age of COVID-19: Can new regulations modify the opioid cascade?, 2020, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

Best Publications

  • Major ingredients of fidelity: a review and scientific guide to improving quality of intervention research implementation.

    Robin Edward Gearing;Nabila El-Bassel;Angela Ghesquiere;Susanna Baldwin

  • Correlates of Partner Violence Among Female Street-Based Sex Workers: Substance Abuse, History of Childhood Abuse, and HIV Risks

    Nabila El-Bassel;Susan S. Witte;Takeshi Wada;Louisa Gilbert

  • Relationship between drug abuse and intimate partner violence: a longitudinal study among women receiving methadone.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Louisa Gilbert;Elwin Wu;Hyun Go

  • Social Support and Disclosure of Abuse: Comparing South Asian, African American, and Hispanic Battered Women.

    Marianne R. Yoshioka;Louisa Gilbert;Nabila El-Bassel;Malahat Baig-Amin

  • The efficacy of a relationship-based HIV/STD prevention program for heterosexual couples.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Susan S. Witte;Louisa Gilbert;Elwin Wu

  • The perfect storm: incarceration and the high-risk environment perpetuating transmission of HIV, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

    Frederick L Altice;Lyuba Azbel;Jack Stone;Ellen Brooks-Pollock

  • Sex trading and psychological distress among women recruited from the streets of Harlem.

    N el-Bassel;R F Schilling;K L Irwin;S Faruque

  • Couple-focused support to improve HIV medication adherence: a randomized controlled trial

    Robert H Remien;Michael J Stirratt;Curtis Dolezal;Joanna S Dognin

  • Intimate partner violence and HIV risk among urban minority women in primary health care settings.

    Elwin Wu;Nabila El-Bassel;Susan S. Witte;Louisa Gilbert

  • Prevention of transmission of HIV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis in prisoners.

    Adeeba Kamarulzaman;Adeeba Kamarulzaman;Stewart E Reid;Stewart E Reid;Amee Schwitters;Lucas Wiessing

  • Addressing the Unique Needs of African American Women in HIV Prevention

    Nabila El-Bassel;Nathilee Ann Caldeira;Lesia M. Ruglass;Louisa Gilbert

  • Fear and violence: raising the HIV stakes.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Louisa Gilbert;Valli Rajah;Anthony Foleno

  • HIV and intimate partner violence among methadone-maintained women in New York City.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Louisa Gilbert;Elwin Wu;Hyun Go

  • Drug abuse and partner violence among women in methadone treatment

    Nabila El-Bassel;Louisa Gilbert;Robert Schilling;Takeshi Wada

  • Partner violence and sexual HIV-risk behaviors among women in an inner-city emergency department.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Louisa Gilbert;Satya Krishnan;Robert F. Schilling

  • Intimate partner violence and HIV among drug-involved women: contexts linking these two epidemics--challenges and implications for prevention and treatment.

    Nabila El-Bassel;Louisa Gilbert;Susan S. Witte;Elwin Wu

  • Systematic Review of Couple-Based HIV Intervention and Prevention Studies: Advantages, Gaps, and Future Directions

    Tina Jiwatram-Negrón;Nabila El-Bassel

  • Intimate partner violence and substance abuse among minority women receiving care from an inner-city emergency department

    Nabila El-Bassel;Louisa Gilbert;Susan S. Witte;Elwin Wu

  • Building skills of recovering women drug users to reduce heterosexual AIDS transmission

    Robert F. Schilling;Nabila El-Bassel;Steven Paul Schinke;Kathy Gordon

  • National Institute of Mental Health Multisite Eban HIV/STD Prevention Intervention for African American HIV Serodiscordant Couples: A Cluster Randomized Trial

    Nabila El-Bassel;John B. Jemmott;J. Richard Landis;Willo Pequegnat

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Steven P. Schinke
Steven P. Schinke Columbia University
Aimee N. C. Campbell
Aimee N. C. Campbell Columbia University Medical Center
Frances R. Levin
Frances R. Levin Columbia University
Rebecca D. Jackson
Rebecca D. Jackson The Ohio State University
John B. Jemmott
John B. Jemmott University of Pennsylvania
Steven Shoptaw
Steven Shoptaw University of California, Los Angeles
Geraldine Downey
Geraldine Downey Columbia University
Alex Carballo-Diéguez
Alex Carballo-Diéguez Columbia University
Daniel J. Feaster
Daniel J. Feaster University of Miami

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