Sarah Brother
Biographic Data
| ID | 1727697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Brother |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Brother |
| SIGNATURE | BROTHER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8454-6240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Once I started going… I had this central wheel hub”: Drivers of overdose prevention center engagement and connections to care in Rhode Island
BACKGROUND: The United States' first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) opened in Rhode Island in January 2025. In addition to OPC services, the site offers co-located basic needs services, case management, healthcare, and substance use treatment. We aimed to understand clients' initial engagement with the OPC as well as their consequent service patterns. METHODS: Between May and August 2025, semi-structured interviews were conduct…
From Presence to Participation: Ethical Engagement in Community Advisory Boards for Drug Use Research
Community Advisory Boards (CABs) are frequently recommended for community-engaged research. They are intended to incorporate the experiential knowledge of people most affected by research. However, CABs often fail to achieve these participatory ideals. Increasingly, people with lived or living experience of stigmatized health-related issues serve on CABs as study population representatives. Yet their perspectives on ethical engagement remain unde…
A longitudinal mixed methods social network analysis to evaluate a peer-led housing program for older men returning from incarceration: Study protocol & pre-implementation results
Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs: A Virtual Project During Multiple Epidemics
Sociological approaches to digital and community-engaged research experienced significant innovation in recent years. This article examines developing and implementing a primarily virtual community-driven research (CDR) project with the National Survivors Union, the American national drug-users union, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Relationships between researchers and directly impacted people, such as people who use drugs, face many barriers. The…
Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring
Rurality has served as a key concept in popular and scientific understandings of the US overdose crisis, with White, rural, and low-income areas thought to be most heavily affected. However, we observe that overdose trends have risen nearly uniformly across the urban-rural designations employed in most research, implying that their importance has likely been overstated or incorrectly conceptualized. Nevertheless, urbanicity/rurality does serve as…
Perceptions Towards HCV Treatment with Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs): A Qualitative Analysis with Persons with HIV/HCV Co-infection Who Delay or Refuse Treatment
In the United States, approximately 25% of people with HIV (PWH) are co-infected with hepatitis C (HCV). Since 2014, highly effective and well-tolerated direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have revolutionized HCV treatment. Uptake of DAAs by people with HIV/HCV co-infection has improved but remains suboptimal due to system, provider, and patient-level barriers. To explore patient-level issues by better understanding their attitudes towards DAA treatm…
The Methadone Manifesto: Treatment Experiences and Policy Recommendations From Methadone Patient Activists
We are the researched, the researchers, and the discounted: The experiences of drug user activists as researchers
Assisted injection provider practices and motivations in Los Angeles and San Francisco California 2016–18
Factors associated with injury and blood-borne infection risk when providing assisted injection among people who inject drugs
The HIV Care Continuum in Small Cities of Southern New England: Perspectives of People Living with HIV/Aids, Public Health Experts, and HIV Service Providers
Food insecurity among formerly homeless youth in supportive housing: A social-ecological analysis of a structural intervention
A good "doctor" is hard to find: Assessing uncredentialed expertise in assisted injection
Merchants, samaritans, and public health workers: Secondary syringe exchanger discursive practices
Food insecurity among formerly homeless youth in supportive housing: A social-ecological analysis of a structural intervention
The Methadone Manifesto: Treatment Experiences and Policy Recommendations From Methadone Patient Activists
Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs: A Virtual Project During Multiple Epidemics
Sociological approaches to digital and community-engaged research experienced significant innovation in recent years. This article examines developing and implementing a primarily virtual community-driven research (CDR) project with the National Survivors Union, the American national drug-users union, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Relationships between researchers and directly impacted people, such as people who use drugs, face many barriers. The…
A good "doctor" is hard to find: Assessing uncredentialed expertise in assisted injection
Merchants, samaritans, and public health workers: Secondary syringe exchanger discursive practices
A good "doctor" is hard to find: Assessing uncredentialed expertise in assisted injection
The HIV Care Continuum in Small Cities of Southern New England: Perspectives of People Living with HIV/Aids, Public Health Experts, and HIV Service Providers
Food insecurity among formerly homeless youth in supportive housing: A social-ecological analysis of a structural intervention
We are the researched, the researchers, and the discounted: The experiences of drug user activists as researchers
Assisted injection provider practices and motivations in Los Angeles and San Francisco California 2016–18
Factors associated with injury and blood-borne infection risk when providing assisted injection among people who inject drugs
Perceptions Towards HCV Treatment with Direct Acting Antivirals (DAAs): A Qualitative Analysis with Persons with HIV/HCV Co-infection Who Delay or Refuse Treatment
In the United States, approximately 25% of people with HIV (PWH) are co-infected with hepatitis C (HCV). Since 2014, highly effective and well-tolerated direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have revolutionized HCV treatment. Uptake of DAAs by people with HIV/HCV co-infection has improved but remains suboptimal due to system, provider, and patient-level barriers. To explore patient-level issues by better understanding their attitudes towards DAA treatm…
The Methadone Manifesto: Treatment Experiences and Policy Recommendations From Methadone Patient Activists
Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring
Rurality has served as a key concept in popular and scientific understandings of the US overdose crisis, with White, rural, and low-income areas thought to be most heavily affected. However, we observe that overdose trends have risen nearly uniformly across the urban-rural designations employed in most research, implying that their importance has likely been overstated or incorrectly conceptualized. Nevertheless, urbanicity/rurality does serve as…
Community-Driven Research with People Who Use Drugs: A Virtual Project During Multiple Epidemics
Sociological approaches to digital and community-engaged research experienced significant innovation in recent years. This article examines developing and implementing a primarily virtual community-driven research (CDR) project with the National Survivors Union, the American national drug-users union, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Relationships between researchers and directly impacted people, such as people who use drugs, face many barriers. The…
A longitudinal mixed methods social network analysis to evaluate a peer-led housing program for older men returning from incarceration: Study protocol & pre-implementation results
“Once I started going… I had this central wheel hub”: Drivers of overdose prevention center engagement and connections to care in Rhode Island
BACKGROUND: The United States' first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center (OPC) opened in Rhode Island in January 2025. In addition to OPC services, the site offers co-located basic needs services, case management, healthcare, and substance use treatment. We aimed to understand clients' initial engagement with the OPC as well as their consequent service patterns. METHODS: Between May and August 2025, semi-structured interviews were conduct…
From Presence to Participation: Ethical Engagement in Community Advisory Boards for Drug Use Research
Community Advisory Boards (CABs) are frequently recommended for community-engaged research. They are intended to incorporate the experiential knowledge of people most affected by research. However, CABs often fail to achieve these participatory ideals. Increasingly, people with lived or living experience of stigmatized health-related issues serve on CABs as study population representatives. Yet their perspectives on ethical engagement remain unde…
HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Public health (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychological intervention (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Family medicine (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works)