Samuel Jenness: News

New paper (Anderson): Predicting High One-Time Partnership Rate Among MSM

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

New paper in AIDS & Behavior: Predictive Models to Identify Factors Associated with a High One-Time Sexual Partnership Rate Among U.S. Men Who Have Sex with Men.

New paper (Nelson): Social Behavior for Infectious Disease in Four LMICs

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

New paper in Nature Communications led by Kristin Nelson: Characterizing Social Behavior Relevant for Infectious Disease Transmission in Four Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2021–2023.

New paper (Jones): HealthMindr PrEP RCT

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

New paper in JAIDS led by Jeb Jones: Randomized Controlled Trial of a HIV Prevention App to Increase Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Uptake among Gay and Bisexual Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States: The HealthMindr PrEP Study.

New paper (Violette): OTC HIV PrEP Support Among Transfeminine People

Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

New paper in JAMA Network Open led by L.R. Violette: Support for Over-the-Counter HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Among Transfeminine People.

New Merck-funded study on monthly HIV PrEP

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

New industry-funded study: Monthly HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Preferences among U.S. Men Who Have Sex with Men (Merck & Co.). Modeling the population-impact of a monthly HIV PrEP formulation within the daily oral and injectable landscape.

New paper (Jenness): Dynamic Contact Networks of Residents of an Urban Jail in the Era of SARS-CoV-2

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

New paper in Epidemics: Dynamic Contact Networks of Residents of an Urban Jail in the Era of SARS-CoV-2.

New R01 funded: SILOS

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Received Site PI role on the new NIH-funded SILOS: Structural Inequities across Layers of Social-Context as Drivers of HIV and Substance Use (R01 DA061247), studying social and structural factors in HIV transmission and substance use among young MSM and transgender women.

New R21 funded: OFFSCRIPT (Over-the-Counter PrEP)

Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Received Site PI role on the new NIH-funded Over-the-Counter PrEP: Acceptability, Feasibility, and Potential Impact of Access Without a Prescription (R21 MH136855). Evaluates the feasibility and impact of removing the need for a PrEP prescription.

New paper (Traeger): Doxycycline PEP Prescribing Strategies on STI Incidence

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

New paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases led by Michael Traeger: Potential Impact of Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Prescribing Strategies on Incidence of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections.

New UG3 funded: LITE Cohort

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Received new NIH award for the LITE Cohort to Identify Determinants of Viral Suppression in MSM and Transfeminine Individuals Living with HIV (UG3 AI176853). A mixed-methods web-based cohort study investigating drivers of HIV viral non-suppression and novel approaches to VL monitoring and treatment.

New CDC U38 funded: CIDMATH Center

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Received new CDC award for the Emory Center for Infectious Disease Modeling & Analytics and Training Hub (CIDMATH; CDC U38 75279). The Center will facilitate rapid understanding of epidemiological situations to guide public health decision-making.

New paper: Role of HIV Partner Services in the Modern Biomedical HIV Prevention Era

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

New paper published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases: The Role of HIV Partner Services in the Modern Biomedical HIV Prevention Era: A Network Modeling Study.

New paper (Jones): Screening and Treatment for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia on HIV Incidence among MSM

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Jeb Jones published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Effect of Screening and Treatment for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia on HIV Incidence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States: A Modeling Analysis.

New R01 funded: CABARET (Cabotegravir PrEP)

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Received notice of award from NIH/NIAID for a new collaborative project led by PI Julia Marcus at Harvard Medical School: Cabotegravir PrEP: Actionable Robust Evidence for Translation into Practice (R01 AI174862). The study evaluates the real-world use, clinical outcomes, and optimal investment of resources for long-acting injectable PrEP.

New paper (Chandra): Comparing Sexual Network Mean Active Degree Measurement Metrics

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Christina Chandra published in Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Comparing Sexual Network Mean Active Degree Measurement Metrics among Men who have Sex with Men.

New paper (Mann): Community-level HIV PrEP Coverage and Individual-level Sexual Behaviors

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Laura Mann published in AIDS: Correlations between community-level HIV preexposure prophylaxis coverage and individual-level sexual behaviors among US men who have sex with men.

New paper (Maloney): Sexual Mixing by HIV Status and PrEP Use

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Kevin Maloney published in Epidemiology: Sexual mixing by HIV status and pre-exposure prophylaxis use among men who have sex with men: addressing information bias.

Elected to NIH PPAH Study Section

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Elected to serve as a standing member of the NIH Study Section Population and Public Health Approaches to HIV/AIDS (PPAH) over the next four years.

New R01 funded: HIV elimination among substance-using MSM

Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Received notice of award from NIH/NIDA for a new collaborative project led by PI Patrick Janulis at Northwestern: Leveraging data synthesis to identify optimal and robust strategies for HIV elimination among substance-using MSM (R01 DA055502). Network-based epidemic modeling with EpiModel to investigate the role of drug and alcohol use among MSM in driving ongoing HIV transmission.

New paper (Wheatley/Enns): Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve HIV PrEP

Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Margo Wheatley with Eva Enns published in JAIDS: Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Initiation, Adherence, and Persistence Among Men Who Have Sex With Men.

New R01 funded: COVID-19 parameters in low-resource settings

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Received notice of award from NIH/NIAID for a new collaborative project led by MPIs Ben Lopman and Saad Omer: Investigation of COVID-19 Disease Parameters for Transmission Models in Low-Resource Settings (R01 AI161399). We will use EpiModel to understand within-household and community-level transmission networks of SARS-CoV-2 in low and middle income countries.

New R01 funded: STIRRUP

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Received notice of award from NIH/NIMH for our new project STI Response and Recommendations Under PrEP (STIRRUP) (R01 MH128130). Big data analysis, epidemic modeling, and economic decision analysis to understand and address the interaction of HIV PrEP scale-up and bacterial STI incidence.

New paper: Dynamic Network Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 Control on a Cruise Ship

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper in Epidemics: Modeling Dynamic Network Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 Control on a Cruise Ship.

New paper (Le Guillou): San Francisco HIV PrEP under High ART Coverage

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Adrien Le Guillou published in JAIDS: Population Impact and Efficiency of Improvements to HIV PrEP Under Conditions of High ART Coverage Among San Francisco Men Who Have Sex With Men.

New paper (Goodreau): HIV Seroadaptation in the Era of PrEP and U=U

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Steve Goodreau published in AIDS & Behavior: A Behavioral Cascade of HIV Seroadaptation Among US Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Era of PrEP and U = U.

New paper (Weiss): HIV PrEP Indications and Use in a National Sexual Network Study

Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Kevin Weiss published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society: Association between HIV PrEP indications and use in a national sexual network study of US men who have sex with men.

New paper (Chandra): Gaps in STI Screening among MSM during PrEP Care

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Christina Chandra published in Clinical Infectious Diseases: Gaps in Screening of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Men Who Have Sex with Men during PrEP Care in the United States.

New paper (Anderson): HIV/STI Epidemic Potential of MSM Sexual Networks

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Emeli Anderson published in Epidemiology: HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemic Potential of Networks of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Two Cities.

New paper (Enns): Decision Analytics for HIV PrEP Cascade of Care

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper with Eva Enns published in AIDS: A decision analytics model to optimize investment in interventions targeting the HIV preexposure prophylaxis cascade of care.

New paper (Janulis): Temporal Variation in One-Time Partnership Rates

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

New paper led by Patrick Janulis published in JAIDS: Temporal Variation in One-Time Partnership Rates Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women.