David Celentano, ScD '77, MHS '75, is Professor and Charles Armstrong Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, with joint appointments in International Health, Health, Society and Behavior and Medicine (School of Medicine). His research integrates behavioral science theory and research with epidemiology, in the study of behavioral and social epidemiology. While originally trained in a chronic disease paradigm (alcoholism and cancer control), he began his research in HIV/AIDS and STDs in the early 1980s. He has worked on some of the major cohort studies (ALIVE, MACS) in HIV epidemiology, as well as conducted intervention research in the USA for heterosexual men and women, injection drug users, and young men who have sex with men.

He turned to international research in 1990, when he began a long-term collaboration with Chiang Mai University in northern Thailand. He has worked on and directed numerous HIV/AIDS and STD epidemiological investigations and preventive interventions. He and his collaborators have demonstrated that a behavioral intervention with young military conscripts lead to a 7-fold reduction in incident STDs and halved the HIV incidence rate. In addition, the role of STDs and alcohol use on HIV acquisition has been shown. More recently, his group has conducted a prospective study of hormonal contraception in relation to HIV seroconversion, a study with significant family planning policy and health implications. Today, he is the Principal Investigator of four NIH-supported studies in Thailand, focusing on interventions to influence the association between opiate use, methamphetamine use, and other drugs on HIV. The focus of these interventions is to harness indigenous peer networks for risk reduction. Other work addresses the use of antiretrovirals as HIV prevention and opioid substitution therapy as HIV prevention.

epidemiology, international health, HIV, AIDS, STDs, behavior, Asia, HIV/AIDS prevention, Thailand, India, Vietnam

2000 Fellow, American College of Epidemiology

2002 Member, American Epidemiological Society

2002 Innovators Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research

2002 Achievement Award, American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association

2006 Doctor of Philosopy in Medical Science (honoris causa), Chiang Mai University

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Sutcliffe CG, Aramrattana A, Sherman SG, Sirirojn B, German D, Wongworapat K, Quan VM, Keawvichit R, Celentano DD. Incidence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and risk factors for acquisition among young methamphetamine users in northern Thailand.   Sex Transm Dis. 2009 May;36(5):284-9.   PMID: 19295472

Sutcliffe CG, German D, Sirirojn B, Latkin C, Aramrattana A, Sherman SG, Celentano DD. Patterns of methamphetamine use and symptoms of depression among youg adults in norther Thailand. Drug Alcohol Depend 2009. 101: 146-51. PMID: 19153017.

Sherman SG, Sutcliffe CG, German D, Sirirojn B, Aramrattana A, Celentano DD. Patterns of Risky Behaviors Associated with Methamphetamine Use Among Young Thai Adults: A Latent Class Analysis. J Adolesc Health 2009; 44: 169-75. PMID: 19167666.

Latkin C, Donnell D, Celentano DD, Aramrattana A, Liu T-Y, Vongchak T, Wiboonnatakul K, Metzger D. Relationships between social norms, social network characteristics, and HIV risk behaviors in Thailand and the U.S.  Health Psych 2009; 323-9.  PMID: 19450038.

Kavasery R, Galai N, Astemborski J, Lucas GM, Celentano DD, Kirk GD, Mehta SH.  Nonstructured treatment interruptions among injection drug users in Baltimore, MD. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2009. 50:360-6. PMID: 19214124.

Latkin W, Donnell D, Metzger D, Sherman S, Aramrattna A, Davis-Vogel A, Quan VM, Gandham S, Vongchak T, Perdue T, Celentano DD. The Efficacy of a Network Intervention to Reduce HIV risk Behaviors Among Drug Users and Risk Partners in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Philadelphia, USA. Soc Sci & Med 2009; 68: 740-8.  PMID: 19070413

Solomon S, Subbaraman R, Solomon SS, Srikrishnan AK, Johnson SC, Vasudevan CK, Anand S, Ganesh AK, Celentano DD. Domestic Violence and Forced Sex Among the Urban Poor in South India: Implications for HIV Prevention.  Violence Against Women 2009 May 15. PMID: 19448166.

Genberg BL, Hlavka Z, Konda KA, Maman S, Chariyalertsak S, Chingono A, Mbwambo J, Modiba P, Van Rooyen H, Celentano DD. A comparison of HIV/AIDS-rtelated stigma in four countries: Negative attitudes and perceived acts of discrimination towards people lining with HIV/AIDS. Soc Sci Med 2009 May 6. PMID: 19427086.

Towe VL, Sifakis F, Gindi RM, Sherman SG, Flynn C, Hauck H, Celentano DD. Prevalence of HIV Infection and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Individuals Having Heterosexual Sex in Low Income Neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD: The BESURE Study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009 Oct 28. [Eprint] PMID: 19875965

Celentano D, Sherman S. The changing landscape of crack cocaine use and HIV infection. CMAJ 2009 Oct 27;181(9):571-2. Epub 2009 Oct 19. PMID: 19841049

Genberg BL*, Hlavka Z, Konda KA, Maman S, Chariyalertsak S, Chingono A, Mbwambo J, Modiba P, Van Rooyen H, Celentano DD.  A comparison of HIV/AIDS-related stigma in four countires: negative attitudes and perceived acts of discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS. Soc Sci Med 2009;68:2279-87.  PMID: 19427086.

Panchanadeswaran S*, Johnson SC, Go VF, Srikrishnan AK, Sivaram S, Solomon S, Bentley M, Celentano DD.  Using the theory of gender and power to examine experiences of partner violence, sexual negotiation, and risk of HIV/AIDS among economically disadvantaged women in Southern India. J Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma (in press)

Rugpao S, Rungruengthanakit K, Werawatanakul Y, Sinchai W, Ruengkris T, Lamlertkittikul S, Pinjareon S, Koonlertkit S, Limtrakul A, Sriplienchan S, Wongthanee A, Sirirojn B, Morrison CS, Celentano DD. Risk factors and algorithms for chlamydial and gonococcal cervical infections in women attending family planning clinics in Thailand. Sex Transm Infect (in press)

Srithanaviboonchai K, Celentano DD, Visaruratana S, Kawichai S, Monjun V, Genberg B*, Chariyalertsak C, Simmons N, Chariyalertsak S. Perceptions about antiretroviral treatment, intentions to use condoms, and decisions to have an HIV test among rural northern lowland Thai and ethnic minority young adults.  Asia Pacific J Public Health (in press)

Hendriksen E, Celentano DD, Chariyalertsak S, chingono A, Gray GE, Khulich M, Mbwambo J, McIntyre J, Morin S, Richter L, Sweat T, Coates T.  Communication, stigma, and VCT uptake in South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Thailand.  AIDS & Behav (in press).

Solomon SS*, Desai M, Srikrishnan AK, Thamburaj E, Vasudevan CK, Kumar MS, Solomon S, Celentano DD, Mehta SH.  The profile of injection drug users in Chennai, India: Identification of risk behaviors and implications for behavioral interventions. Substance Use Misuse (in press).

Guadamuz TE, Kunawararak P, Beyrer C, Pumpaisanchai P, Wei C, Celentano DD.  HIV prevalence, sexual and behavioral correlates among Shan, Hill tribe and Thai male sex workers in Northern Thailand. AIDS Care (in press).

Yang X, Xia G, Li X, Latkin C, Celentano D.  Social influence and individual risk factors of HIV unsafe sex among female entertainment workers in China.  AIDS Educ Prev (in press).

Sherman S, Sutcliffe CG, Srirojn B, German D, Thomson N, Aramrattana A, Celentano DD,  Predictors and consequences of incarceration among a sample of young Thai methamphetamine users. Drug and Alcohol Review (in press).

Nandi A, Celentano D. Neighborhood poverty and injection cessation in a sample of injection drug users. Am Journal of Epi (in press).

Averbach SH, Gravitt PE, Nowak RG, Celentano DD, Dunbar MS, Morrison CS, Grimes B, Padian NS.  The association between cervical HPV infection and HIV acquisition among women in Zimbabwe.  AIDS. 2010 (accepted)