Danielle Ompad
Danielle Ompad, PhD, is an epidemiologist and Interim Associate Director for the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at The New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Ompad completed her MHS and PhD in infectious disease epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and a BS in Biology at Bowie State University.
Dr. Ompad has extensive experience in the design, conduct and analysis of community-based cross-sectional and prospective studies focusing on illicit substance use and risky sexual behavior. She has worked with several prospective studies of young, recently initiated illicit drug users. Among these cohorts of at-risk adolescents and young adults, she has investigated sexually transmitted diseases, changes in risk taking behaviors after disclosure of a positive HCV result, risk behaviors among female injection drug users who have sex with women, and club drug use. Dr. Ompad has also worked with a population-based cohort of young adults, investigating potential childhood behavioral precursors to risky sexual behavior.
Dr. Ompad's recent work involves assessing adolescent and young adult risk for substance use, HIV, HCV and other blood-borne pathogens. She is in charge of the IMPACT Studies which are investigating the association between neighborhoods and HIV and other STDs, substance use (including club drug use), and mental health. In addition, Dr. Ompad is working on methods for systematically assessing the neighborhood physical and social environments.
Contact information: (212) 419-3589, dompad@nyam.org
Click here for a list of Dr. Ompad's available publications in PubMed.
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