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Venues and Risk Networks: Contexts of Substance Use and HIV among High Risk Women in Tijuana, Mexico

Monday, February 27, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Brooke West, PhD, an assistant professor in the Division of Global Public Health and the Department of Sociology at the University of California San Diego will be presenting on “Venues and Risk Networks: Contexts of Substance Use and HIV among High Risk Women in Tijuana, Mexico” at this Community Health and Prevention seminar. As a medical sociologist, her research focuses on the social determinants of HIV/STI, substance use and reproductive health among marginalized populations. Dr. West’s current work examines how physical and network characteristics of venues shape substance use and HIV/STI transmission among female sex workers and injectors in Tijuana, Mexico.

Contact Information

Angel Dorsey
at29@drexel.edu

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Location

Dornsife School of Public Health,
Nesbitt Hall, Room 320

Audience

  • Everyone