Karin

E.

Tobin

,

PhD

I am an Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the Lighthouse Studies @ Peer Point, our community-based clinic, and the Training Director of our Overdose Response Program. My research focuses on identifying social and contextual factors that are associated with health and risk and developing and testing behavioral interventions to improve health outcomes. My work addresses significant public health problems such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, hepatitis C, mental health, addiction and overdose. I work with several key populations including people who use and inject drugs and sexual and racial minorities and I use a harm reduction framework to guide my research and practice. My research includes a focus is on the socio-spatial and temporal context of behavior and utilizes social influence theories to inform my work. 

Current activities include: 1) evaluating a culturally-tailored HIV prevention intervention for African American gay bisexual and other men who have sex with men, 2) evaluation of a social-network oriented behavioral interventions with high-risk adults, 3) development and evaluation of an opiate overdose intervention 4) examination of the social and spatial context of violence experienced by transgender women and young Black women 5) examination of the socio-spatial context of injection drug use in Ukraine, and 6) medication assisted treatment for opiate use disorder thought telemedicine.