Departmental Affiliations
Sally B. Coburn, PhD, MPH, investigates cancer in people with HIV, gaining understanding of mechanism and what it means at the population level, to improve health outcomes in this population.
Research Interests
HIV; AIDS; HIV and aging; cancer outcomes; cancer etiology/risk factors; United States; health disparities; EHR data; longitudinal data; collaborative study design; epidemiology
Experiences & Accomplishments
I aim to leverage molecular and clinical data with the social determinants of health in observational settings to improve cancer outcomes in people with HIV, gaining understanding of mechanism and what it means at the population level. My research in cancer among people with HIV spans the cancer care continuum, ranging from cancer etiology and cancer screening to cancer burden and cancer outcomes through the lens of disparities. I am continually developing expertise in large, collaborative, observational research and the appropriate methodology effectively answer questions that impact the health and wellbeing of people with HIV in North America with particular interest in how epidemiologic and statistical methods can be employed to meet the challenges of utilizing EHR data.
Select Publications
Coburn SB, Lang R, Zhang J, Palella FJ, Horberg MA, Castillo-Mancilla J, Gebo K, Galaviz KI, Gill MJ, Silverberg MJ, Hulgan T, Elion RA, Justice AC, Moore RD, Althoff KN; North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of IeDEA. Statins Utilization in Adults With HIV: The Treatment Gap and Predictors of Statin Initiation. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2022 Dec 15;91(5):469-478. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000003083. PMID: 36053091; PMCID: PMC9649872.
Coburn SB, Humes E, Lang R, et al. Analysis of Postvaccination Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections Among Adults With HIV in the United States. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(6):e2215934. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.15934
Coburn SB, Dionne-Odom J, Alcaide ML, Moran CA, Rahangdale L, Golub ET, Massad LS, Seidman D, Michel KG, Minkoff H, Murphy K, Brown TT, Visvanathan K, Lau B, Althoff KN. The Association Between HIV Status, Estradiol, and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin Among Premenopausal Women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2022 Feb;31(2):183-193. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2021.0276. Epub 2022 Jan 17. PMID: 35041528; PMCID: PMC8864429.
Coburn SB, Shiels MS, Silverberg MJ, Horberg MA, Gill MJ, Brown TT, Visvanathan K, Connor AE, Napravnik S, Marcus JL, Moore RD, Mathews WC, Mayor AM, Sterling TR, Li J, Rabkin CS, D'Souza G, Lau B, Althoff KN; North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS. Secular Trends in Breast Cancer Risk Among Women With HIV Initiating ART in North America. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2021 May 1;87(1):663-670. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002627. PMID: 33492023; PMCID: PMC8026587