Irene A Doherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 111714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene A Doherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene A |
| FAMILY NAME | Doherty |
| SIGNATURE | DOHERTY I A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9752-8930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why People Share (Or Don’t)
For historically marginalized groups and residents of low-resource rural communities, contact tracing is a critical tool for controlling the spread of communicable diseases. To improve its effectiveness, more research on identifying factors that influence an individual's willingness to comply with contact tracers is needed. Therefore, we examined the association of race/ethnicity, contextual factors, and willingness to engage in contact tracing d…
Living with Long Covid in a Southern State
Long COVID can devastate patients' overall quality of life, extending to economic, psychosocial, and mental health and day-to-day activities. Clinical research suggests that long COVID is more severe among Black and African American populations in the United States. This study examines the lived and lasting effects of long COVID among a diverse sample of North Carolina residents over one year by using three self-administered questionnaires comple…
Progression of a large syphilis outbreak in rural North Carolina through space and time
In 2001, the primary and secondary syphilis incidence rate in rural Columbus County, North Carolina was the highest in the nation. To understand the development of syphilis outbreaks in rural areas, we developed and used the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Graphical User Interface (BMEGUI) to map syphilis incidence rates from 1999–2004 in seven adjacent counties in North Carolina. Using BMEGUI, incidence rate maps were constructed for two aggregation sc…
The 5Ws of Racial Equity in Research
Ensuring equity in research is a critical step in advancing health equity. In this perspective, the authors introduce a guiding framework for advancing racial equity in research processes, environments, and among the research workforce, the 5Ws of Racial Equity in Research. Centering their discussion on the 5Ws: Who, What, When, Where, and Why, they use historical and contemporary examples of research inequities to demonstrate how these five simp…
Think Inside the Box
Correlates of Lifetime Trauma Exposure Among Pregnant Women from Cape Town, South Africa
The biobehavioral Women’s Health CoOp in Pretoria, South Africa
Trial registration no: NCT01497405
Contextualizing gender differences and methamphetamine use with HIV prevalence within a South African community
Findings from this study underscore the need for policy makers to direct scarce resources to the communities, places within communities, and populations, especially vulnerable women, where the impact on HIV prevention and onward transmission will be greatest
Low Prospects and High Risk
African American women at increased risk of HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) may engage in risky sex as a coping mechanism for depressed economic conditions. This study examines the association between high‐risk sexual behavior and structural determinants of sexual health among a sample of young African American women. 237 young African American women (16–19 years old) from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Carolina were e…
From Coitus to Concurrency
Sexual Risk Behaviors among African-American and Hispanic Women in Five Counties in the Southeastern United States
Immigration and Sexual Partner Risk Among Latino Adolescents in San Francisco
Pregnancy Intentions and Teenage Pregnancy Among Latinas
Pregnancy intentions were important not as mediators but rather as independent risk factors for pregnancy. Differences in pregnancy rates between groups of Latinas may be less a function of intentional choice than of situational factors. Interventions and research should focus on identifying and targeting factors that hinder effective contraceptive use among teenagers who want to avoid pregnancy
Incarceration and High-Risk Sex Partnerships among Men in the United States
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Men in the United States
Objectives. We sought to determine the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US men’s involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual network pattern that speeds population dissemination of HIV. Methods. For this analysis, we compared sexual partnership dates of 4928 male respondents in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine the prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships and evaluated associations between concurren…
Social Determinants of Hiv Infection in the Deep South
The commentary presented by Reif et al.1 summarizing the state of HIV in the southeastern United States did not fully address key determinants that explain, in part, how the interaction between individual-level factors, patterns of sexual partnerships and sexual networks, and societal forces affect HIV transmission
HIV and African Americans in the Southern United States
BACKGROUND: Heterosexual HIV transmission among African Americans in the rural southern United States has climbed in recent years. Concurrent partnerships and bridge populations have emerged as key elements in the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). GOAL: The goal of this study was to examine published empiric data and other literature concerning the extent of these network patterns and their relationship to the socioeconomic contex…
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Men in the United States
Objectives. We sought to determine the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US men’s involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual network pattern that speeds population dissemination of HIV. Methods. For this analysis, we compared sexual partnership dates of 4928 male respondents in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine the prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships and evaluated associations between concurren…
Incarceration and High-Risk Sex Partnerships among Men in the United States
Pregnancy Intentions and Teenage Pregnancy Among Latinas
Pregnancy intentions were important not as mediators but rather as independent risk factors for pregnancy. Differences in pregnancy rates between groups of Latinas may be less a function of intentional choice than of situational factors. Interventions and research should focus on identifying and targeting factors that hinder effective contraceptive use among teenagers who want to avoid pregnancy
Low Prospects and High Risk
African American women at increased risk of HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) may engage in risky sex as a coping mechanism for depressed economic conditions. This study examines the association between high‐risk sexual behavior and structural determinants of sexual health among a sample of young African American women. 237 young African American women (16–19 years old) from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Carolina were e…
Social Determinants of Hiv Infection in the Deep South
The commentary presented by Reif et al.1 summarizing the state of HIV in the southeastern United States did not fully address key determinants that explain, in part, how the interaction between individual-level factors, patterns of sexual partnerships and sexual networks, and societal forces affect HIV transmission
HIV and African Americans in the Southern United States
BACKGROUND: Heterosexual HIV transmission among African Americans in the rural southern United States has climbed in recent years. Concurrent partnerships and bridge populations have emerged as key elements in the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). GOAL: The goal of this study was to examine published empiric data and other literature concerning the extent of these network patterns and their relationship to the socioeconomic contex…
Concurrent Sexual Partnerships Among Men in the United States
Objectives. We sought to determine the prevalence, distribution, and correlates of US men’s involvement in concurrent sexual partnerships, a sexual network pattern that speeds population dissemination of HIV. Methods. For this analysis, we compared sexual partnership dates of 4928 male respondents in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth to determine the prevalence of concurrent sexual partnerships and evaluated associations between concurren…
Social Determinants of Hiv Infection in the Deep South
The commentary presented by Reif et al.1 summarizing the state of HIV in the southeastern United States did not fully address key determinants that explain, in part, how the interaction between individual-level factors, patterns of sexual partnerships and sexual networks, and societal forces affect HIV transmission
Incarceration and High-Risk Sex Partnerships among Men in the United States
Immigration and Sexual Partner Risk Among Latino Adolescents in San Francisco
Pregnancy Intentions and Teenage Pregnancy Among Latinas
Pregnancy intentions were important not as mediators but rather as independent risk factors for pregnancy. Differences in pregnancy rates between groups of Latinas may be less a function of intentional choice than of situational factors. Interventions and research should focus on identifying and targeting factors that hinder effective contraceptive use among teenagers who want to avoid pregnancy
Sexual Risk Behaviors among African-American and Hispanic Women in Five Counties in the Southeastern United States
From Coitus to Concurrency
The biobehavioral Women’s Health CoOp in Pretoria, South Africa
Trial registration no: NCT01497405
Contextualizing gender differences and methamphetamine use with HIV prevalence within a South African community
Findings from this study underscore the need for policy makers to direct scarce resources to the communities, places within communities, and populations, especially vulnerable women, where the impact on HIV prevention and onward transmission will be greatest
Low Prospects and High Risk
African American women at increased risk of HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) may engage in risky sex as a coping mechanism for depressed economic conditions. This study examines the association between high‐risk sexual behavior and structural determinants of sexual health among a sample of young African American women. 237 young African American women (16–19 years old) from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in North Carolina were e…
Correlates of Lifetime Trauma Exposure Among Pregnant Women from Cape Town, South Africa
Think Inside the Box
The 5Ws of Racial Equity in Research
Ensuring equity in research is a critical step in advancing health equity. In this perspective, the authors introduce a guiding framework for advancing racial equity in research processes, environments, and among the research workforce, the 5Ws of Racial Equity in Research. Centering their discussion on the 5Ws: Who, What, When, Where, and Why, they use historical and contemporary examples of research inequities to demonstrate how these five simp…
Progression of a large syphilis outbreak in rural North Carolina through space and time
In 2001, the primary and secondary syphilis incidence rate in rural Columbus County, North Carolina was the highest in the nation. To understand the development of syphilis outbreaks in rural areas, we developed and used the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Graphical User Interface (BMEGUI) to map syphilis incidence rates from 1999–2004 in seven adjacent counties in North Carolina. Using BMEGUI, incidence rate maps were constructed for two aggregation sc…
Living with Long Covid in a Southern State
Long COVID can devastate patients' overall quality of life, extending to economic, psychosocial, and mental health and day-to-day activities. Clinical research suggests that long COVID is more severe among Black and African American populations in the United States. This study examines the lived and lasting effects of long COVID among a diverse sample of North Carolina residents over one year by using three self-administered questionnaires comple…
Why People Share (Or Don’t)
For historically marginalized groups and residents of low-resource rural communities, contact tracing is a critical tool for controlling the spread of communicable diseases. To improve its effectiveness, more research on identifying factors that influence an individual's willingness to comply with contact tracers is needed. Therefore, we examined the association of race/ethnicity, contextual factors, and willingness to engage in contact tracing d…
Medicine (14 works) · Demography (12 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (11 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Public health (7 works)