University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Div of Infectious Diseases, Dept of Medicine, School of Medicine
130 Mason Farm Rd
CB 7030
Chapel Hill,
NC
USA
27599-7030
doherty@med.unc.edu
Biographical Sketch:
Feb 2007-present Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
2004-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
1999-2004 Co-Investigator/Project Director
Center for Reproductive Health Research and Policy
Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
1998 – 2000 Graduate Student Researcher
Office of AIDS
California Department of Public Health
Berkeley, CA
1996 – 1998 Project Coordinator
US Naval Medical Center, San Diego CA
& School of Public Health
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
1992-1996 Senior Research Associate
Statistical and Clinical Coordinating Center
New England Research Institutes
Watertown, MA
1989 – 1991 Research Associate
Epidemiology Resources Inc. (now Ingenix)
Newton, MA
1988 – 1989 Legislative Aide
Boston City Council
Boston, MA
20 years of epidemiologic research experience in coordinating centers and direct field work, and experience working with complex datasets. Current work focuses broadly on social determinants of reproductive health among marginalized and underserved populations, and specifically the effects of social and sexual networks on transmission and acquisition of STIs. Published two invited reviews about sexual network research cited in more than 100 publications. Ongoing research includes:
1)investigating the synergistic effects of dual epidemics of syphilis and HIV in the sexual networks of young African-American men who have sex with men (as PI);
2) incarcerated and recently released inmates to determine how the genetic diversity of Staphylococcus aureus (SA) might serve as a biological marker of social connections among people colonized with SA in and members of overlapping social networks;
3) mathematical modeling of the effects of concurrency and HSV on HIV transmission;
4) how sexual networks form in geographical space and affect transmission of STIs;
5) sexual network features of African American women;