Director of Research and Evaluation
New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease Control
42-09 28th street
Long Island City,
NY
USA
11101
ppathela@health.nyc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Preeti Pathela is a Research Scientist with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She has been with the Department’s Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Disease Control since 2003, working on STD program evaluation and research studies, with special interests in correctional health, issues affecting MSM, and the relationship between sexual behavior and sexual identity.
Selected publications:
Meites E, Llata E, Braxton J, Schwebke JR, Bernstein KT, Pathela P, Asbel LE, Kerani RP, Mettenbrink CJ, Weinstock HS. Trichomonas vaginalis at selected U.S. STD clinics: testing, screening, and prevalence. Sex Trans Dis. 2013; 40(11):865-869.
Pathela P, Braunstein SL, Blank S, Schillinger JA. HIV Incidence Among Men With and Those Without Sexually Transmitted Rectal Infections: Estimates From Matching Against an HIV Case Registry. Clin Infect Dis. 2013 Jul 18.
Brewer TH, Schillinger J, Lewis FM, Blank S, Pathela P, Jordahl L, Schmitt K, Peterman TA. Infectious Syphilis Among Adolescent and Young Adult Men: Implications for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission and Public Health Interventions. Sex Transm Dis. 2011; 38(5):367-71.
Pathela P, Braunstein SL, Schillinger JA, Shepard C, Sweeney M, Blank S. Men Who Have Sex With Men Have a 140-Fold Higher Risk for Newly Diagnosed HIV and Syphilis Compared With Heterosexual Men in New York City. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011; 58(4):408-16.
Pathela P, Schillinger JA. Sexual behaviors and violence: a representative sample of adolescents with
opposite-, same-, or both-sex partners. Pediatrics 2010; 126(5):879-86.
Rietmeijer CA, Newman LM, Donnelly J, Bernstein KT, Bissette JM, Martins S, Pathela P, Schillinger JA, Stenger MA, Weinstock H. Here Comes the SSuN: Early Experiences with the STD Surveillance Network. Public Health Reports 2009; 124: S72-S77.
Pathela P, Hennessy RR, Blank S, Parvez F, Franklin W, Schillinger JA. The contribution of a urine-based jail screening program to citywide male chlamydia and gonorrhea case rates in New York City. Sex Trans Dis 2009; 36 (2): S58-S61.
Pathela P, Blank S, Schillinger JA. Lymphogranuloma venereum: old pathogen, new story. Curr Infect Dis Rep 2007; 9(2):143-50.
Pathela P, Hajat A, Schillinger J, Blank S, Sell R, Mostashari F. Discordance between sexual behavior and self-reported identity: a population-based survey of New York City men. Ann Intern Med 2006; 145: 416-25.