Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
1600 Clifton Road, MS E-37
Atlanta,
GA
USA
30333
Email:
dpurcell@cdc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
13 years public health research experience as a behavioral scientist involved in the development and testing of HIV prevention interventions among a variety of populations. This experience includes development and evaluation of prevention interventions.
53 publications 2005-2009 [9 first author; 5 first-author citations included below]:
Purcell DW, Mizuno Y, Lyles CM. HIV Prevention Interventions for African American Injection Drug Users. (In press). In: McCree DH, Jones KT, O’Leary A, eds. African Americans and HIV: A Community in Crisis. New York: Springer.
Purcell DW, McCree DH. (2009). Recommendations from a research consultation to address intervention strategies for HIV / AIDS prevention with African Americans. American Journal of Public Health, 99, 1937-1940.
Purcell DW, Patterson JD, Spikes PS. (2008). Childhood Sexual Abuse Experienced by Gay and Bisexual Men: Understanding the Disparities and Interventions to Help Eliminate Them. In RJ Wolitski, R Stall, & RO Valdisseri (Eds.). Unequal opportunity: Health disparities affecting gay and bisexual men in the United States (pp. 72-96). Oxford University Press, New York.
Purcell DW, Latka MH, Metsch LR, Latkin CA, Gomez CA, Mizuno Y, Arnsten JH, Wilkinson J, Knight K, Knowlton A, Santibanez S, Tobin KE, Dawson-Rose C, Valverde EE, Gourevitch GN, Eldred L, Borkowf CB for the INSPIRE Team (2007). Results from a randomized controlled trial of a peer-mentoring intervention to reduce HIV transmission and increase access to care and adherence to HIV medications among HIV-seropositive injection drug users. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 46, Supp 2, S35-S47.
Purcell DW, Garfein RS, Latka MH, Thiede H, Hudson S, Bonner S, Golub ET, Ouellet L, for the DUIT Study Team. 2007. Development, Description, and Acceptability of a Small-Group, Behavioral Intervention to Prevent HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Infections among Young Adult Injection Drug Users. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 91S, S73-S80.