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2026

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78
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435
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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Tim Rhodes is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, particularly within epidemiology, infectious diseases, and public health.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • General Health Professions
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Tim Rhodes's research topics cover a range of public health concerns, with notable focus areas as follows:

  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Hepatitis C virus research

Research output includes multiple papers published in journals with varying focuses. Frequent publication venues include:

  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Sociology of Health & Illness
  • Critical Public Health
  • Global Public Health
  • BMJ Global Health

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Tim Rhodes are:

  • "A model society: maths, models and expertise in viral outbreaks" (2020), published in Critical Public Health
  • "Mathematical models as public troubles in COVID-19 infection control: following the numbers" (2020), in Health Sociology Review
  • "Modelling the pandemic: attuning models to their contexts" (2020), published in BMJ Global Health

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Kari Lancaster
  • Magdalena Harris
  • Mia Harrison
  • Carla Treloar
  • Sandra Gendera

Best Publications

  • The ‘risk environment’: a framework for understanding and reducing drug-related harm

    Tim Rhodes

  • The social structural production of HIV risk among injecting drug users.

    Tim Rhodes;Merrill Singer;Philippe Bourgois;Samuel R. Friedman

  • Risk environments and drug harms: a social science for harm reduction approach.

    Tim Rhodes

  • HIV and risk environment for injecting drug users: the past, present, and future

    Steffanie A Strathdee;Timothy B Hallett;Natalia Bobrova;Tim Rhodes

  • Global overview of injecting drug use and HIV infection among injecting drug users.

    Carmen Aceijas;Gerry V. Stimson;Matthew Hickman;Tim Rhodes

  • Prevention of HIV infection for people who inject drugs: why individual, structural, and combination approaches are needed

    Louisa Degenhardt;Bradley Mathers;Peter Vickerman;Peter Vickerman;Tim Rhodes;Tim Rhodes

  • Global estimates of prevalence of HCV infection among injecting drug users.

    Carmen Aceijas;Tim Rhodes

  • Risk theory in epidemic times: sex, drugs and the social organisation of ‘risk behaviour’

    Tim Rhodes

  • Interventions to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C in people who inject drugs: A review of reviews to assess evidence of effectiveness

    Georgina J. MacArthur;Eva van Velzen;Norah Palmateer;Jo Kimber

  • Evidence for the effectiveness of sterile injecting equipment provision in preventing hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus transmission among injecting drug users: a review of reviews.

    Norah Palmateer;Jo Kimber;Jo Kimber;Matthew Hickman;Sharon Hutchinson

  • Transition and the HIV risk environment

    Tim Rhodes;Milena Simic

  • Hepatitis C treatment access and uptake for people who inject drugs: a review mapping the role of social factors.

    Magdalena Harris;Tim Rhodes

  • Situational factors influencing drug injecting, risk reduction and syringe exchange in Togliatti City, Russian Federation: a qualitative study of micro risk environment.

    Tim Rhodes;Larissa Mikhailova;Anya Sarang;Catherine M Lowndes

  • HIV infection associated with drug injecting in the newly independent states, eastern Europe: the social and economic context of epidemics.

    T Rhodes;A Ball;G V Stimson;Y Kobyshcha

  • Public injecting and the need for ‘safer environment interventions’ in the reduction of drug‐related harm

    Tim Rhodes;Jo Kimber;Will Small;John Fitzgerald

  • Explosive spread and high prevalence of HIV infection among injecting drug users in Togliatti City, Russia.

    T Rhodes;C Lowndes;A Judd;LA Mikhailova

  • Impact of Opioid Substitution Therapy on Antiretroviral Therapy Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Andrea J Low;Andrea J Low;Gitau Mburu;Gitau Mburu;Nicky J Welton;Margaret T May

  • Public injection settings in Vancouver: Physical environment, social context and risk

    Will Small;Tim Rhodes;Evan Wood;Evan Wood;Thomas Kerr;Thomas Kerr

  • Police violence and sexual risk among female and transvestite sex workers in Serbia: qualitative study

    Tim Rhodes;Milena Simic;Sladjana Baros;Lucy Platt

  • Harm Reduction: Evidence, Impacts and Challenges

    T Rhodes;D Hedrich

  • Structural violence and structural vulnerability within the risk environment: Theoretical and methodological perspectives for a social epidemiology of HIV risk among injection drug users and sex workers

    Tim Rhodes;Karla Wagner;Steffanie A. Strathdee;Kate Shannon

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
Chris Bonell
Chris Bonell London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ford Hickson
Ford Hickson University of London
Mark David McGregor Davis
Mark David McGregor Davis Monash University
Adam Fletcher
Adam Fletcher Cardiff University
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
John Bond
John Bond University of Toronto
Suzanne Fraser
Suzanne Fraser La Trobe University
Robert Power
Robert Power Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jason Grebely
Jason Grebely University of New South Wales

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