Carl Latkin | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Departmental Affiliations

Health, Behavior and Society

Primary

Epidemiology

Joint

School of Medicine

Joint

Center & Institute Affiliations

Center for AIDS Research

Center for Global Health

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Carl Latkin, PhD, conducts biobehavioral interventions for disadvantaged communities, with a focus on social networks, substance use, infectious diseases, and mental health.

Contact Info

624 N. Broadway, Hampton House 737

Baltimore

Maryland

21205

410-955-3972

410-955-7241

carl_latkin@jhu.edu

Research Interests

Health Behavior and Society; HIV; HCV; social networks; AIDS; prevention; people who use drug; urban health; needle exchange; overdose; social context; mental health; social networks; neighborhoods; alcohol; MSM; sexual minorities; opiates; tobacco; drug treatment; heroin; vaccine hesitancy; COVID-19; Climate change; climate change action

Experiences & Accomplishments

Education

PhD

University of Oregon

1987

Overview

My work focuses on HIV prevention and care among disadvantaged populations, domestic and international approaches to behavior change, social network analysis, neighborhood factors and health behaviors, sexual minorities, people who inject drugs, harm reduction, mental health, social context, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, vaccine hesitancy, COVID-19, overdose, heroin, fentanyl, climate change, climate change action.

Select Publications

Recent publications. For a full list: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/carl.latkin.1/bibliography/41142333/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

Latkin CA, Knowlton AR. Social Network Assessments and Interventions for Health Behavior Change: A Critical Review. Behav Med. 2015;41(3):90-7. Latkin CA, Davey-Rothwell MA, Knowlton AR, Alexander KA, Williams CT, Boodram B. Social network approaches to recruitment, HIV prevention, medical care, and medication adherence. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2013 Jun 1;63
Latkin C, Dayton L, Yi G, Jaleel A, Nwosu C, Limaye R. COVID-19 vaccine delay: An examination of United States residents' intention to delay vaccine uptake. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2021 May 20:1-11. Latkin CA, Dayton L, Strickland JC, Colon B, Rimal R, Boodram B. An Assessment of the Rapid Decline of Trust in US Sources of Public Information about COVID-19. J Health Commun. 2020 Oct 2;25(10):764-773. Latkin CA, Dayton L, Yi G, Colon B, Kong X. Mask usage, social distancing, racial, and gender correlates of COVID-19 vaccine intentions among adults in the US. PLoS One. 2021 Feb 16;16(2):e0246970. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0246970. Latkin CA, Dayton L, Yi G, Konstantopoulos A, Boodram B. Trust in a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.: A social-ecological perspective. Soc Sci Med. 2021 Feb;270:113684. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113684.
Latkin CA, Dayton L, Davey-Rothwell MA, Tobin KE. Fentanyl and Drug Overdose: Perceptions of Fentanyl Risk, Overdose Risk Behaviors, and Opportunities for Intervention among People who use Opioids in Baltimore, USA. Subst Use Misuse. 2019;54(6):998-1006.\ Latkin CA, Gicquelais RE, Clyde C, Dayton L, Davey-Rothwell M, German D, Falade-Nwulia S, Saleem H, Fingerhood M, Tobin K. Stigma and drug use settings as correlates of self-reported, non-fatal overdose among people who use drugs in Baltimore, Maryland. Int J Drug Policy. 2019 Jun;68:86-92.
Latkin CA, Edwards C, Davey-Rothwell MA, Yang C, Tobin KE. The relationship between drug use settings, roles in the drug economy, and witnessing a drug overdose in Baltimore, Maryland. Subst Abus. 2018;39(3):384-389. doi: 10.1080/08897077.2018.1439801.
Latkin CA, Kennedy RD, Davey-Rothwell MA, Tseng TY, Czaplicki L, Baddela A, Edwards C, Chander G, Moran MB, Knowlton AR. The Relationship Between Neighborhood Disorder and Barriers to Cessation in a Sample of Impoverished Inner-City Smokers in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Nicotine Tob Res. 2018 Nov 15;20(12):1451-1456.

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Projects

STEP HIV prevention intervention--Baltimore

Sexual and drug risk assessment

CHAT

HIV prevention among MSM: A network approach-Baltimore

Prevention for Positives: A RCT for Vietnamese HIV-positive IDUs

Beacon Study: Informal Caregiving & Medical Adherence among HIV+ Injection Drug Users

mHealth intervention on HIV and substance abuse

Health disparities, stress pathways, and stress-related comorbidities among MSM living with HIV

Cost-effectiveness of comparing two Intervention Mapping implementation approaches for improving ART adherence among PWID in Vietnam.

Using open contest and neuro-influence experiment to develop and evaluate PrEP promotion messages for high risk men

BEACON

COVID-19 and health

HIV prevention with drug users in Russia

HIV risk among drug users in Lithuania

DOT-HAART For HIV-Infected South African Adults

HIV Prevention and Adherence Intervention for HIV Positives and Partners in India

Prevention in Churches (PiC Project)

Structural Interventions for HIV prevention among wine shops in Chennai, India

NIMH Collaborative HIV/STD Prevention Trial -- India

RCT of Russian IDU Peer Network HIV Prevent Intervention

Overdose prevention and social networks

Structural Interventions for HIV prevention among men in wine shops in Chennai, India

Support Networks & HAART Adherence among Vulnerable Indian HIV+’s

Understanding SypHilis In Network Study (USHINE)