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  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Nancy Padian is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and focuses on research predominantly within the field of Medicine. Their scholarly work encompasses several subfields including Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Public Health, Environmental, and Occupational Health.

The primary topics of Nancy Padian's research include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Global Maternal and Child Health, HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare, and Medication Adherence and Compliance.

Several recent publications by Nancy Padian illustrate their research scope. These include:

  • Financial incentives to promote retention in care and viral suppression in adults with HIV initiating antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania: a three-arm randomised controlled trial, 2020, The Lancet HIV
  • Patient-reported Reasons for Stopping Care or Switching Clinics in Zambia: A Multisite, Regionally Representative Estimate Using a Multistage Sampling-based Approach in Zambia, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Patterns and Predictors of Incident Return to HIV Care Among Traced, Disengaged Patients in Zambia: Analysis of a Prospective Cohort, 2020, JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Household flooring associated with reduced infant diarrhoeal illness in Zimbabwe in households with and without WASH interventions, 2020, Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Mortality estimates by age and sex among persons living with HIV after ART initiation in Zambia using electronic medical records supplemented with tracing a sample of lost patients: A cohort study, 2020, PLoS Medicine

Nancy Padian collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Izukanji Sikazwe
  • Carolyn Bolton-Moore
  • Charles B. Holmes
  • Elvin Geng
  • Sandra I. McCoy

Their publications have appeared in various venues, with multiple papers featured in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
  • Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • PLoS Medicine

Recognition for Nancy Padian's contributions includes membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) awarded in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Children's symptom and social functioning self-report scales. Comparison of mothers' and children's reports.

    Myrna M. Weissman;Helen Orvaschel;Nancy Padian

  • Relative resistance to HIV-1 infection of CD4 lymphocytes from persons who remain uninfected despite multiple high-risk sexual exposure.

    William A. Paxton;Scott R. Martin;Doris Tse;Thomas R. O'Brien

  • Young people's sexual health in South Africa: HIV prevalence and sexual behaviors from a nationally representative household survey

    Audrey E Pettifor;Helen V Rees;Immo Kleinschmidt;Annie E Steffenson

  • Towards an improved investment approach for an effective response to HIV/AIDS

    Bernhard Schwartländer;John Stover;Timothy Hallett;Rifat Atun;Rifat Atun

  • Sexual practices and risk of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus. The San Francisco Men's Health Study.

    Warren Winkelstein;David M. Lyman;Nancy Padian;Robert Grant

  • Heterosexual Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Northern California: Results from a Ten-year Study

    Nancy S. Padian;Stephen C. Shiboski;Sarah O. Glass;Eric Vittinghoff

  • Sexual Power and HIV Risk, South Africa

    Audrey E. Pettifor;Diana M. Measham;Helen V. Rees;Nancy S. Padian

  • Female-to-Male Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Nancy S. Padian;Stephen C. Shiboski;Nicholas P. Jewell

  • Early age of first sex: a risk factor for HIV infection among women in Zimbabwe.

    Audrey E Pettifor;Ariane van der Straten;Megan S Dunbar;Megan S Dunbar;Stephen C Shiboski

  • Male-to-female transmission of human immunodeficiency virus

    Nancy Padian;Linda Marquis;Donald P. Francis;Robert E. Anderson

  • Direct access to emergency contraception through pharmacies and effect on unintended pregnancy and STIs: a randomized controlled trial.

    Tina R. Raine;Cynthia C. Harper;Corinne H. Rocca;Richard Fischer

  • Depressed Outpatients: Results One Year After Treatment With Drugs and/or Interpersonal Psychotherapy

    Myrna M. Weissman;Gerald L. Klerman;Brigitte A. Prusoff;Diane Sholomskas

  • Diaphragm and lubricant gel for prevention of HIV acquisition in southern African women: a randomised controlled trial

    Nancy S Padian;Ariane van der Straten;Gita Ramjee;Tsungai Chipato

  • Biomedical interventions to prevent HIV infection: evidence, challenges, and way forward

    Nancy S Padian;Anne Buvé;Jennifer Balkus;David Serwadda

  • HIV prevention transformed: the new prevention research agenda

    Nancy S. Padian;Nancy S. Padian;Sandra I. McCoy;Salim Safurdeen. Abdool Karim;Salim Safurdeen. Abdool Karim;Nina. Hasen

  • The San Francisco Men's Health Study: III. Reduction in human immunodeficiency virus transmission among homosexual/bisexual men, 1982-86

    W Winkelstein;M Samuel;N S Padian;J A Wiley

  • Determinants and Consequences of Sexual Networks as They Affect the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections

    Irene A. Doherty;Nancy S. Padian;Cameron Marlow;Sevgi O. Aral

  • ISOLATION OF AIDS-ASSOCIATED RETROVIRUS FROM GENITAL SECRETIONS OF WOMEN WITH ANTIBODIES TO THE VIRUS

    CB Wofsy;JB Cohen;LB Hauer;Nancy Padian

  • Weighing the gold in the gold standard: challenges in HIV prevention research.

    Nancy S Padian;Sandra I McCoy;Jennifer E Balkus;Judith N Wasserheit

  • Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children

    Myrna M. Weissman;Helen Orvaschel;Nancy Padian

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariane van der Straten
Ariane van der Straten University of California, San Francisco
Frances M. Cowan
Frances M. Cowan Imperial College London
Robert A. Salata
Robert A. Salata Case Western Reserve University
Barbra A. Richardson
Barbra A. Richardson University of Washington
Jonathan M. Ellen
Jonathan M. Ellen Johns Hopkins University
David V. Glidden
David V. Glidden University of California, San Francisco
David D. Celentano
David D. Celentano Johns Hopkins University
Audrey Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stefano M. Bertozzi
Stefano M. Bertozzi University of California, Berkeley
Julius Schachter
Julius Schachter University of California, San Francisco

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