Pedro Mateu‐gelabert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro Mateu‐gelabert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Mateu‐gelabert |
| SIGNATURE | GELABERT P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Development and Research Institutes |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4003-3782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
System dynamics modeling to inform implementation of evidence-based prevention of opioid overdose and fatality
Overdoses with Xylazine and Fentanyl Recorded in Pennsylvania’s Overdose Information Network
This study explored whether law enforcement/first responder-reported fentanyl overdose response actions (such as administration of the opioid overdose reversal agent naloxone) differed between overdoses in which xylazine was, versus was not, suspected to be co-involved. Data were drawn from the Pennsylvania State Police's Overdose Information Network (ODIN) for 11,478 suspected fentanyl-involved overdoses, 137 reportedly co-involving xylazine, re…
Dialectical Processes of Health Framework as an Alternative to Social Determinants of Health Framework
The social determinants of health (SDOH) framework has proven useful for research and practice in addressing the social causes of many health outcomes. However, its limitations may restrict its value as the world undergoes rapid ecological and social change. We argue that SDOH does not adequately incorporate rapidly changing or “far upstream” social processes (particularly social movements), the dialectics of social conflict and creative social i…
Mental Health Concerns During Covid-19
Mental Health Service Use, Barriers, and Service Preferences During Covid-19 among Low-Income Housing and Market-Rate Housing Residents of Harlem in New York City
Syndemic factors associated with non-fatal overdose among young opioid users in New York City
Introduction: Rates of illicit opioid use are particularly high among young adults, yet research on overdose experience and factors associated with overdose in this population remains limited. This study examines the experiences and correlates of non-fatal overdose among young adults using illicit opioids in New York City (NYC). Methods: 539 participants were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling in 2014-2016. Eligibility criteria included: ag…
Substance Use Patterns and Their Association with Depression and Social Factors During Covid-19 Among Harlem Residents in New York City
This study aimed to identify the prevalence of substance use before and during COVID-19; and examined its association with depression and social factors among 437 residents from the neighborhood of Harlem in Northern Manhattan, New York City. Over a third of respondents reported using any substance before COVID-19, and initiating/increasing substance use during COVID-19. The most common substances used before COVID-19 and initiated/increased duri…
Alcohol Misuse, Binge Drinking, and their Associations with Psychosocial Factors during Covid-19 among Harlem Residents in New York City
Hepatitis C virus risk among young people who inject drugs
Background Injection drug use (IDU) is the leading risk factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission in the U.S. While the general risk factors for HCV transmission are known, there is limited work on how these factors interact and impact young people who inject drugs (YPWID). Methods Project data were drawn from a study of 539 New York City (NYC) residents ages 18-29 who were recruited via Respondent-Driven Sampling and, reported past-month n…
Lessons from the First Wave of Covid-19 for Improved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (Moud) Treatment
Background Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) are associated with important public health benefits. Program changes implemented in response to COVID-19 hold promise as ongoing strategies to improve MOUD treatment. Methods: MOUD patients on buprenorphine or methadone, providers, government regulators, and persons who use drugs not in MOUD were recruited in the Northeast region of the United States between June and October of 2020 via adver…
Emerging Zoonotic Infections, Social Processes and Their Measurement and Enhanced Surveillance to Improve Zoonotic Epidemic Responses
Zoonotic epidemics and pandemics have become frequent. From HIV/AIDS through COVID-19, they demonstrate that pandemics are social processes as well as health occurrences. The roots of these pandemics lie in changes in the socioeconomic interface between humanity and non-human host species that facilitate interspecies transmission. The degree to which zoonoses spread has been increased by the greater speed and extent of modern transportation and t…
Why Young Women Who Use Opioids Are at Risk for Rape
This study tests a theoretically informed model to understand why women who use opioids (WWUO) are at risk of rape while using drugs. Structured interviews were conducted with 168 WWUO. Three domains were hypothesized to increase risk: the sexually coercive context of drug use, women's social vulnerability, and drug use severity. Logistic regression examined the odds of being raped by domain. One-third of WWUO had been raped while using drugs. Th…
The stigma system
Stigma is a fundamental driver of adverse health outcomes. Although stigma is often studied at the individual level to focus on how stigma influences the mental and physical health of the stigmatized, considerable research has shown that stigma is multilevel and structural. This paper proposes a theoretical approach that synthesizes the literature on stigma with the literature on scapegoating and divide‐and‐rule as strategies that the wealthy and…
Big Events theory and measures may help explain emerging long-term effects of current crises
Big Events are periods during which abnormal large-scale events like war, economic collapse, revolts, or pandemics disrupt daily life and expectations about the future. They can lead to rapid change in health-related norms, beliefs, social networks and behavioural practices. The world is undergoing such Big Events through the interaction of COVID-19, a large economic downturn, massive social unrest in many countries, and ever-worsening effects of…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Predict Early Initiation of Opioid Use Behaviors
Introduction: Although a substantial body of research documents a relationship between traumatic stress in childhood and the initiation of substance use later in the life course, only limited research has examined potential linkages between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the initiation of non-medical prescription opioid use and other opioid use behaviors. The present study contributes to this growing body of work by investigating the as…
The Opioid/Overdose Crisis as a Dialectics of Pain, Despair, and One-Sided Struggle
The opioid/overdose crisis in the United States and Canada has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and has become a major field for research and interventions. It has embroiled pharmaceutical companies in lawsuits and possible bankruptcy filings. Effective interventions and policies toward this and future drug-related outbreaks may be improved by understanding the sociostructural roots of this outbreak. Much of the literature on roots of the o…
New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals
A New Generation of Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia? HIV, HCV, and Overdose Risks in a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Young Hard Drug Users
Contact tracing for hepatitis C
Perceived Risk of Heroin in Relation to Other Drug Use in a Representative US Sample
Low perception of risk is a risk factor for heroin use. Research is needed to determine whether this risk factor for heroin use is affected by the use of other drugs. Data were analyzed from participants in the 2015/2016 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health who denied lifetime heroin use ( N = 110,102). We examined how recency of use of various drugs and number of drugs used relate to perceptions that using heroin is not a great risk. Results …
Heroin Use and Drug Injection among Youth Also Misusing Prescription Drugs
Public health programming focused on reducing prescription drug misuse also may reduce youth engagement in heroin and/or injection drug use. Preventive efforts to support communities of color in reducing rates of prescription drug misuse are crucial
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus in young people who inject drugs in four Colombian cities
Sexual Risk and Transmission Behaviors, Partnerships and Settings Among Young Adult Nonmedical Opioid Users in New York City
Drug Use and Sexual HIV Transmission Risk Among Men Who have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW), Men Who have Sex with Men only (MSMO), and Men Who have Sex with Women Only (MSWO) and the Female Partners o…
High enhancer, downer, withdrawal helper
Street Codes in High School
Elsewhere we have documented how conflict between adolescents in the streets shapes conflict in the schools. Here we consider the impact of street codes on the culture and environment of the schools themselves, and the effect of this culture and on the students’ commitment and determination to participate in their own education. We present the high school experiences of first–generation immigrants and African American students, distinguishing bet…
The stigma system
Stigma is a fundamental driver of adverse health outcomes. Although stigma is often studied at the individual level to focus on how stigma influences the mental and physical health of the stigmatized, considerable research has shown that stigma is multilevel and structural. This paper proposes a theoretical approach that synthesizes the literature on stigma with the literature on scapegoating and divide‐and‐rule as strategies that the wealthy and…
School Violence
In this article we explore the interrelationship between school and neighborhood violence through an ethnographic study conducted over a two‐year period in a New York City middle school. This article presents a bidirectional flow of adolescent conflict by analyzing incidents taking place outside the school that originate in the school setting, and incidents of conflict occurring in the school that were initiated in the surrounding neighborhood. T…
Incarceration, Sex With an STI- or HIV-Infected Partner, and Infection With an STI or HIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Objectives. We examined the link between incarceration and sexually transmitted infection (STI), including HIV, from a social network perspective. Methods. We used data collected during a social network study conducted in Brooklyn, NY (n = 343), to measure associations between incarceration and infection with herpes simplex virus-2, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis or HIV and sex with an infected partner, adjusting for characteristics of respon…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Predict Early Initiation of Opioid Use Behaviors
Introduction: Although a substantial body of research documents a relationship between traumatic stress in childhood and the initiation of substance use later in the life course, only limited research has examined potential linkages between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the initiation of non-medical prescription opioid use and other opioid use behaviors. The present study contributes to this growing body of work by investigating the as…
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
For the common good
People in high-risk neighbourhoods try to protect their friends, neighbours, relatives and others from the social and physical risks associated with sex and drug use. This paper develops and validates a community-grounded questionnaire to measure such 'intravention' (health-directed efforts to protect others). An initial ethnography, including life-history interviews and focus groups, explored the forms of intravention activities engaged in by re…
Alcohol Misuse, Binge Drinking, and their Associations with Psychosocial Factors during Covid-19 among Harlem Residents in New York City
Taking care of themselves
Though prevalence of HIV and especially Hepatitis C is high among people who inject drugs (PWID) in New York, about a third of those who have injected for 8-15 years have avoided infection by either virus despite their long-term drug use. Based on life history interviews with 35 long-term PWID in New York, this article seeks to show how successful integration and performance of various drug using and non-drug using roles may have contributed to s…
School Violence
In this article we explore the interrelationship between school and neighborhood violence through an ethnographic study conducted over a two‐year period in a New York City middle school. This article presents a bidirectional flow of adolescent conflict by analyzing incidents taking place outside the school that originate in the school setting, and incidents of conflict occurring in the school that were initiated in the surrounding neighborhood. T…
Urging Others to be Healthy
"Intravention," prevention activities that are conducted by and sustained through ongoing actions of members of communities-at-risk, is an appropriate goal for HIV intervention activities. Data from 120 injection drug users in a Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood that has seen decreases in HIV prevalence among IDUs and little HIV diffusion to young adults indicate that most of them have recently (3 months) urged other people to engage in one or mor…
Keeping it together
Sexual relations between drug injectors (IDUs) and crack smokers (CS), and non-drug users are a major means of HIV spread to the broader population. However there is little literature describing community processes that regulate sexual and social partnerships among these groups. We describe these relationships in Bushwick, a low-income, mainly Latino neighbourhood in Brooklyn, NY. In this community, IDU and CS are heavily stigmatized, both by non…
Some Data-Driven Reflections on Priorities in Aids Network Research
How can hepatitis C be prevented in the long term
Street Codes in High School
Elsewhere we have documented how conflict between adolescents in the streets shapes conflict in the schools. Here we consider the impact of street codes on the culture and environment of the schools themselves, and the effect of this culture and on the students’ commitment and determination to participate in their own education. We present the high school experiences of first–generation immigrants and African American students, distinguishing bet…
Positive deviance control-case life history
We have identified strategies and tactics that some doubly-uninfected IDUs have developed to stay safe. Staying Safe methodology develops grounded hypotheses. These can be tested through cohort studies of incidence and prevention trials of hypothesis-based programs to help drug injectors make their injection and sexual careers safer for themselves and others. This positive deviance control-case life history method might be used to study avoiding …
For the common good
People in high-risk neighbourhoods try to protect their friends, neighbours, relatives and others from the social and physical risks associated with sex and drug use. This paper develops and validates a community-grounded questionnaire to measure such 'intravention' (health-directed efforts to protect others). An initial ethnography, including life-history interviews and focus groups, explored the forms of intravention activities engaged in by re…
Strategies to avoid opiate withdrawal
Correlates of Staying Safe Behaviors Among Long-Term Injection Drug Users
Group sex events amongst non-gay drug users
Incarceration, Sex With an STI- or HIV-Infected Partner, and Infection With an STI or HIV in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Objectives. We examined the link between incarceration and sexually transmitted infection (STI), including HIV, from a social network perspective. Methods. We used data collected during a social network study conducted in Brooklyn, NY (n = 343), to measure associations between incarceration and infection with herpes simplex virus-2, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis or HIV and sex with an infected partner, adjusting for characteristics of respon…
Theory, Measurement and Hard Times
High risk and little knowledge
Taking care of themselves
Though prevalence of HIV and especially Hepatitis C is high among people who inject drugs (PWID) in New York, about a third of those who have injected for 8-15 years have avoided infection by either virus despite their long-term drug use. Based on life history interviews with 35 long-term PWID in New York, this article seeks to show how successful integration and performance of various drug using and non-drug using roles may have contributed to s…
Interpersonal Attacks on the Dignity of Members of HIV Key Populations
Developing Measures of Pathways that May Link Macro Social/Structural Changes with HIV Epidemiology
Recurring Epidemics of Pharmaceutical Drug Abuse in America
Observers describe today’s “epidemic” of pharmaceutical drug abuse as a recent phenomenon, but we argue that it is only the most recent of three waves stretching back more than a century. During each wave, policies have followed a similar pattern: voluntary educational campaigns, followed by supply-side policing and—sometimes—public health responses that would today be understood as “harm reduction.” These experiences suggest that only broad-base…
Sexual Risk and Transmission Behaviors, Partnerships and Settings Among Young Adult Nonmedical Opioid Users in New York City
Drug Use and Sexual HIV Transmission Risk Among Men Who have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW), Men Who have Sex with Men only (MSMO), and Men Who have Sex with Women Only (MSWO) and the Female Partners o…
High enhancer, downer, withdrawal helper
Heroin Use and Drug Injection among Youth Also Misusing Prescription Drugs
Public health programming focused on reducing prescription drug misuse also may reduce youth engagement in heroin and/or injection drug use. Preventive efforts to support communities of color in reducing rates of prescription drug misuse are crucial
Prevalence of hepatitis C virus in young people who inject drugs in four Colombian cities
New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals
A New Generation of Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia? HIV, HCV, and Overdose Risks in a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Young Hard Drug Users
Medicine (39 works) · Psychiatry (24 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (23 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Public health (16 works) · Environmental health (15 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (14 works) · Internal Medicine (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Drug (12 works)