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Shari L. Dworkin is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans several intersecting fields including Medicine, Social Sciences, and Health Professions, with notable focus on General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their scholarly output includes research published in various venues, with multiple contributions to the Archives of Sexual Behavior, AIDS and Behavior, and New York University Press eBooks. Other frequent publication venues include AIDS and UNC Libraries.

The main research topics covered in Dworkin's work are:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses

Recent publications by Dworkin demonstrate a focus on sexual health, HIV, and gender studies. Selected papers include:

  • "Gendered health institutions: examining the organization of health services and men's use of HIV testing in Malawi" (2020), Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • "Development and Validation of the Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults" (2020), Journal of Adolescent Health
  • "Effect of a Multisectoral Agricultural Intervention on HIV Health Outcomes Among Adults in Kenya" (2022), JAMA Network Open
  • "Sample Size in Qualitative Research Using In-Depth Interviews: A View from The Associate Editor 12 Years Later" (2024), Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • "Measuring Men's Gender Norm Beliefs Related to Contraception: Development of the Masculine Norms and Family Planning Acceptance Scale" (2021), Archives of Sexual Behavior

Dworkin has co-authored extensively with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Faye Linda Wachs
  • Elizabeth A. Bukusi
  • Craig R. Cohen
  • Elly Weke
  • Rachel Burger

In addition to journal articles, Dworkin has contributed to book publications. Notably, one book titled Body Panic was published by New York University Press eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Sample size policy for qualitative studies using in-depth interviews.

    Shari L. Dworkin

  • Structural Interventions: Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities for Research

    K. M. Blankenship;S. R. Friedman;S. Dworkin;J. E. Mantell

  • Rethinking Gender, Heterosexual Men, and Women's Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

    Jenny A. Higgins;Susie Hoffman;Shari L. Dworkin

  • Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

    Shari L. Dworkin;Faye Linda Wachs

  • Built To Win: The Female Athlete As Cultural Icon

    Leslie Heywood;Shari L. Dworkin

  • Gender-Transformative Interventions to Reduce HIV Risks and Violence with Heterosexually-Active Men: A Review of the Global Evidence

    Shari L. Dworkin;Sarah Treves-Kagan;Sheri A. Lippman

  • “Holding Back”: Negotiating a Glass Ceiling on Women's Muscular Strength

    Shari L. Dworkin

  • The men's health gap: men must be included in the global health equity agenda.

    Peter Baker;Shari L Dworkin;Sengfah Tong;Ian Banks

  • The promises and limitations of gender-transformative health programming with men: critical reflections from the field.

    Shari L. Dworkin;Paul J. Fleming;Christopher J. Colvin

  • Economic Self-Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review

    Carinne Brody;Thomas de Hoop;Martina Vojtkova;Ruby Warnock

  • Who is epidemiologically fathomable in the HIV/AIDS epidemic? Gender, sexuality, and intersectionality in public health

    Shari L. Dworkin

  • Going beyond "ABC" to include "GEM": critical reflections on progress in the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

    Shari L. Dworkin;Anke A. Ehrhardt

  • “Real Men Don't”: Constructions of Masculinity and Inadvertent Harm in Public Health Interventions

    Paul J. Fleming;Joseph G. L. Lee;Shari L. Dworkin

  • Actual versus desired initiation patterns among a sample of college men: tapping disjunctures within traditional male sexual scripts.

    Shari L Dworkin;Lucia O'Sullivan

  • Development and validation of a reproductive autonomy scale.

    Ushma D. Upadhyay;Shari L. Dworkin;Tracy A. Weitz;Diana Greene Foster

  • Microfinance and HIV/AIDS prevention: assessing its promise and limitations.

    Shari L. Dworkin;Kim Blankenship

  • “Getting your Body Back”: Postindustrial Fit Motherhood in Shape Fit Pregnancy Magazine

    Shari L. Dworkin;Faye Linda Wachs

  • It’s Not About the Game: Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Media

    Cheryl Cooky;Faye Linda Wachs;Michael A. Messner;Shari Lee Dworkin

  • “Bad Girls Rule”: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Commentary on the Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls

    Kari Lerum;Shari L. Dworkin

  • Promises and pitfalls of data sharing in qualitative research.

    Alexander C. Tsai;Alexander C. Tsai;Alexander C. Tsai;Brandon A. Kohrt;Lynn T. Matthews;Theresa S. Betancourt

  • Impact of a Gender-Transformative HIV and Antiviolence Program on Gender Ideologies and Masculinities in Two Rural, South African Communities.

    Shari L. Dworkin;Abigail M. Hatcher;Chris Colvin;Dean Peacock

  • Men’s Perceptions of Women’s Rights and Changing Gender Relations in South Africa Lessons for Working With Men and Boys in HIV and Antiviolence Programs

    Shari L. Dworkin;Christopher Colvin;Abbey Hatcher;Dean Peacock

  • Men's violence against women and men are inter-related: recommendations for simultaneous intervention

    Paul J. Fleming;Sofia Gruskin;Florencia Rojo;Shari L. Dworkin

  • Can self-help group programs improve women’s empowerment? A systematic review

    Carinne Brody;Thomas de Hoop;Martina Vojtkova;Ruby Warnock

Frequent Co-Authors

Abigail M. Hatcher
Abigail M. Hatcher University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Torsten B. Neilands
Torsten B. Neilands University of California, San Francisco
Anke A. Ehrhardt
Anke A. Ehrhardt Columbia University
Susan Tross
Susan Tross Columbia University
Thomas C. Neylan
Thomas C. Neylan University of California, San Francisco
Felicia Pratto
Felicia Pratto University of Connecticut
Brian Mustanski
Brian Mustanski Northwestern University
Aimee N. C. Campbell
Aimee N. C. Campbell Columbia University Medical Center
Kenneth J. Zucker
Kenneth J. Zucker University of Toronto
Don Operario
Don Operario Emory University

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