HIV/AIDS preventive interventions, including HIV vaccine clinical trials and preparedness studies. Epidemiology and molecular epidemiology of HIV. Substance use and narcotics reaserch. Public health and human rights.

HIV/AIDS, molecular epidemiology, human rights, China, Burma, Russia, Thailand, Kazakhstan, HIV vaccines

Elected, 2000, Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society, Alpha Chapter, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore; Recipient, 1999 Charlotte Silverman Fund Award for Epidemiology and Policy, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health; Nominee, 1999, for the First Jonathan Mann Prize in Health and Human Rights; Winner, 1988 Lowell E. Bellin Award for Excellence in Preventive Medicine and Community Health. S.U.N.Y Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn; Recipient, Dr. Michael Kenny International Fellowship Fund Grant for study in India, 1987; Elected, Alpha Omega Alpha, S.U.N.Y. Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, 1987; Elected, Phi Beta Kappa, Hobart and Wm. Smith Colleges, 1980.

Baral S, Trapence G, Motimedi F, Umar E, Iipinge S, Dausab F, Beyrer C. HIV prevalence, risks for HIV infection, and human rights among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Malawi, Namibia, and Botswana. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(3):e4997. Epub 2009 Mar 26.

Teela KC, Mullany LC, Lee CI, Poh E, Paw P, Masenior N, Maung C, Beyrer C, Lee TJ. Community-based delivery of maternal care in conflict-affected areas of eastern Burma: perspectives from lay maternal health workers. Soc Sci Med. 2009 Apr;68(7):1332-40. Epub 2009 Feb 18.

Beyrer C. Hidden yet happening: the epidemics of sexually transmitted infections and HIV among men who have sex with men in developing countries. Sex Transm Infect. 2008 June;84(6):410-2.

Beyrer C, Lee TJ. Responding to infectious diseases in Burma and her border regions.

Confl. Health. 2008 Mar 14;2(1):2.

Saavedra J, Izazola-Licea JA, Beyrer C. Sex between men in the context of HIV: The AIDS 2008 Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture in health and human rights. J Int AIDS Soc. 2008 Dec 24;11(1):9.

Beyrer C. Burma and the challenge of humanitarian assistance. Lancet. 2007 Oct27;370(9597):1465-7.

Beyrer C. HIV epidemiology update and transmission factors: risks and risk contexts--16th International AIDS Conference epidemiology plenary. Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Apr 1;44(7):981-7.

Beyrer C, Kawichai S, Hyder JA, Borwornsin S, Srirak N, Natpratan C, Celentano DD, Khamboonruang C. Patterns of HIV and syphilis infection in Northern Thailand 1998-2001.

Int J STD AIDS. 2007 Mar;18(3):179-83.

Beyrer C, Suwanvanichkij V, Mullany L, Richards A, Franck N, Samuels A, Lee TJ. Responding to AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Burma: Dilemmas of Policy and Practice. PLoS Med. 2006 Oct. 10;3(10) e393, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed0030393.

Beyrer C. Sripaipan T. Tovanabutra S. Jittiwutikarn J Suriyanon V. Vongchak T Srirak N Kawichai S Razak MH Celentano DD. High HIV, hepatitis C and sexual risks among drug-using men who have sex with men in Northern Thailand. AIDS. 2005 Sep 23;19(14):12535-1540.

Beyrer C. Is trafficking a health issue? Lancet 2004;(363):564-565.

Beyrer C, Razak MH, Labrique A, Brookmeyer R. Assessing the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Burma. J AIDS 2003;32:311-317.

Beyrer C, Juttiwutikarn J, Teokul W, Razak MH, Suriyanon V, Srirak N, Pripaipan T, Vonchuk T, Tovanabutra S, Sripaipan T, Celentano DD. Drug use, increasing incarceration rates, and prison associated HIV risks in Thailand. AIDS & Behavior 2003;(7) 2:153-161.

Beyrer C. Hidden Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in China: Crisis and Opportunity. JAMA 2003;298(10).

Beyrer C. HIV infection rates and heroin trafficking: Fearful symmetries. Bulletin on Narcotics: The science of drug use epidemiology 2003;(14)2:400-417.

Beyrer C, Stachowiak J. Health Consequences of the Trafficking of Women and Girls in Southeast Asia. Brown Rev World Affairs 2003;10(1):105-119.

Beyrer C. The HIV/AIDS vaccine research effort: an update. Hopkins HIV Rep. 2003;15(1):6-7.

Beyrer C. HIV infection and heroin trafficking in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Interntl J Harm Reduction 2002;4:4-6.

Beyrer C, Kass N. Human rights, politics, and reviews of research ethics. Lancet 2002; 360: 246-51.

Beyrer C. Injecting Drug Users and HIV Vaccine Trials: What Does the Science Say? AIDScience 2002;2(14):p1-6.

Leiter K, Suwanvanichkij V. Tamm I, Iacopino V, Beyrer C. Human rights abuses and vulnerability to HIV/AIDS: the experiences of Burmese women in Thailand. Health Hum Rights 2006;9(2)88-111.

Lee TJ, Mullany LC, Richards A, Maung C, Beyrer C. Mortality rates in conflict zones, Karen, Karenni, and Mon states in eastern Burma. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 2006; Jul;11(7):1197-1227.

Kawichai S, Celentano DD, Vongchak T, Beyrer C, Suriyanon V, Razak MH, Srirak N, Rungruengthanakit K, Jittiwutikarn J. HIV voluntary counseling and testing and HIV incidence in male injecting drug users in northern Thailand. JAIDS 2006 February 1;41(2):186-193.

Stachowiak JA, Tichonova F, Strathdee SA, Stibich M, Mogilnii V, Beyrer C. Marked ethnic differences in HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among injecting drug users in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2004. Drug & Alcohol Dep., 2006, 82(S1):S7-S14.

Stachowiak JA, Sherman S, Konakova A, Krushkova I, Peryshkina A, Strathdee S, Beyrer C. Health risks and power among female sex workers in Moscow. SIECUS Rep. Spring 2005;33(2):18-25.

Beyrer C. War in the Blood: Sex, Politics, and AIDS in Southeast Asia. (Zed Books, London, 1998, White Lotus, Bangkok, 1998, and St. Martin.