mark lurie
Office: Biomedical Building 497, International Health Institute
email: Mark_Lurie@brown.eduTitle: Assistant Professor of Medicine and Community Health (Research)
Background:
Mark Lurie, PhD, Assistant Professor of Community Health and Medicine joined the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University in 2003. He received his PhD in International Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 2001, and his MA in African History from the University of Florida in 1992. A native South African, he conducted his research while resident in South Africa from 1996-2001. Most of his research continues to be in South Africa (Durban and Rustenburg), but he also has active research collaborations in India and Cambodia. Dr. Lurie received a 5-year National Institutes of Health K-01 Career Development Award in 2003.
Research Interests:
The impact of migration on the spread of HIV, social and behavioural determinants of sexually transmitted infections, social epidemiology, public health impact of antiretroviral therapy.
Current Research:
Dr. Lurie continues to focus his research on social epidemiology and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. He continues to study the role of migration in the spread of HIV in South Africa, and other projects include:
- Collaborating with colleagues at the University of Natal in Durban South Africa, Dr. Lurie is working within an existing randomized controlled trial for antiretroviral therapy for people who are co-infected with TB and HIV. He is collecting data on sexual behaviour and incidence of sexually transmitted infections among people who are co-infected and who are on antiretroviral therapy. He plans to use that and other data to develop mathematical models to estimate the public health impact of HIV treatment in terms of secondary transmission averted.
- Conducting a baseline assessment of HIV prevention and treatment among the Bafokeng, in Northwest Province, South Africa.
- Working with colleagues at PSTC to conduct a household survey of demographic and health outcomes in Ethiopia.
Selected recent publications:
Mark Lurie, Brian Williams, Khangelani Zuma, David Mkaya-Mwamburi, Geoff P Garnett, AW Sturm, Michael D Sweat, Joel Gittelsohn, Salim S Abdool Karim. The impact of migration on HIV-1 transmission: a study of migrant and non-migrant men, and their partners. 2003. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 40(2):149-156.
Mark Lurie, Brian Williams, Khangelani Zuma, David Mkaya-Mwamburi, Geoff P Garnett, Michael D Sweat, Joel Gittelsohn, Salim S Abdool Karim. Who infects whom? HIV concordance and discordance among migrant and non-migrant couples in South Africa. 2003; AIDS, 17: 2245-2252.
Khangelani Zuma, Eleanor Gouws, Brian Williams, Mark Lurie. Risk factors for HIV infection among women in Carletonville, South Africa: migration, demography and sexually transmitted diseases. 2003. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 14: 814-817.
Mark Lurie, E. Jane Carter, Jonathan Cohen, Timothy Flanigan. Directly Observed Antiretroviral therapy for HIV/TB Co-Infection 2004; Lancet Infectious Diseases, 4: 137-8.
Mark Lurie, Migration and the Epidemiology of HIV in South Africa. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, in press.
Additional Information:
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