Monica Biradavolu

Biographic Data

ID1699127
NAMEMonica Biradavolu
GIVEN NAMESMonica
FAMILY NAMEBiradavolu
SIGNATUREBIRADAVOLU M
AFFILIATIONSAmerican University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS69
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX5

  • Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question survey module for women’s agency

    Open AccessSeema Jayachandran, Monica Biradavolu et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2022Cited by: 3References: 10

    Open-ended interview questions elicit rich information about people's lives, but in large-scale surveys, social scientists often need to measure complex concepts using only a few close-ended questions. We propose a new method to design a short survey measure for such cases by combining mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We identify the best survey questions based on how well they predict a benchmark measure of the concept derived…

  • Brokers and the Earnings of Female Sex Workers in India

    Open AccessD Brady, Monica Biradavolu et al.ARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review2015Cited by: 12References: 66

    This study examines whether working with a broker increases or reduces the payment received for the last client among female sex workers. Building on research on the informal economy and sex work, we formulate a positive embeddedness hypothesis, expecting a positive association, and an exploitation hypothesis, expecting a negative association. We analyze a large survey combined with intensive interview data on female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh…

  • Sex workers in HIV prevention

    Open AccessAnnie George, Kim M Blankenship et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2014

    We utilised a comparative ethnographic approach to study the implementation of a community mobilisation intervention addressing HIV risk among female sex workers (FSWs) in India, as implemented first by an non-governmental organisation and after oversight of the intervention was transitioned to the government. We demonstrate that the work of peer outreach workers changed from Social Change Agents within a community-led structural intervention (CL…

  • Unintended Consequences of Community-Based Monitoring Systems

    Open AccessMonica Biradavolu, Monica R Biradavolu et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2014Cited by: 8References: 4

  • Motherhood and HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Open AccessElizabeth Reed, Jay G Silverman et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2012

  • Trends in condom use among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Open AccessJennifer Toller Erausquin, Monica Biradavolu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2012Cited by: 7References: 27

    BACKGROUND: Community mobilisation interventions for HIV prevention among female sex workers (FSWs) aim to organise FSWs for collective action and challenge the structures of power that underlie HIV risk. Assessing intervention impact is challenging because the importance of direct individual exposure to intervention components may decrease over time as change occurs at social-normative, policy and other structural levels. In this paper, the auth…

  • Structural stigma, sex work and HIV

    Open AccessMonica Rao Biradavolu, Monica Biradavolu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2012Cited by: 5References: 26

    BACKGROUND: Recent theorisation has pushed stigma research in new directions, arguing for a need to challenge the unequal power relations that impact groups most at risk for HIV-related stigma rather than locate stigma in the individual. Such a conceptualisation resonates with the growing emphasis on structural interventions for HIV prevention that attempt to alter the social context of risk. METHODS: The paper predominantly relies on longitudina…

  • The role of housing in determining HIV risk among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Open AccessElizabeth Reed, Jhumka Gupta et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2011Cited by: 18References: 45

  • Challenging the stigmatization of female sex workers through a community-led structural intervention

    Kim M Blankenship, Monica Biradavolu et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2010

    Structural interventions represent a potentially powerful approach to HIV prevention among female sex workers (FSW) that focus on changing the social context of risk rather than individual behavior. Community-led structural interventions (CLSI) represent a particular form of structural interventions whereby the collective energy of FSW is directed toward action to address the contextual factors that promote their risk. Among these different conte…

  • Can sex workers regulate police? Learning from an HIV prevention project for sex workers in southern India

    Open AccessMonica Rao Biradavolu, Monica Biradavolu et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2009Cited by: 16References: 39

  • Power, community mobilization, and condom use practices among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India

    Kim M Blankenship, Brooke S West et al.ARTICLEAIDS2008

    OBJECTIVES: We used a structural interventions framework to analyse the associations between power and condom use among a sample of female sex workers (FSW), and how exposure to a local community mobilization intervention (CMI) affects these associations. DESIGN: Data came from a cross-sectional survey of 812 FSW in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India, recruited through respondent-driven sampling. METHODS: We identified three type…