Research interests include the social and contextual factors associated with substance abuse and HIV risk, particularly with marginalized populations. Current activities include: 1) developing a culturally-tailored HIV prevention intervention for African American Men who have sex with men, 2) evaluation of a social-network oriented behavioral interventions with high-risk adults, 3) Translating a scientifically proven behavioral intervention for national dissemination, and 4) evaluation of two community-based programs designed to reduce HIV risk and drug abuse relapse.

Social-influence, behavioral interventions and evaluation, HIV prevention, overdose, Harm Reduction, injection drug users

Tobin KE, Sherman SG, Bielenson P, Welsh C, Latkin CA (2008). Evaluation of the Staying Alive Program: Training Injection Drug Users to Properly Administer Naloxone and Save Lives. Int J Drug Policy. (in press)

Sherman SG, Gann DS, Tobin KE, Latkin CA, Welsh C, Bielenson P (2008). “The life they save may be mine”: Diffusion of overdose prevention information from a city sponsored programme. Int J Drug Policy. (in press)

Purcell DW, Latka MH, Metsch LR, Latkin CA, Gomez CA, Mizuno Y, Arnsten JH, Wilkinson J, Knight K, Knowlton A, Santibanez S, Tobin KE, Dawson-Rose C, Valverde EE, Gourevitch MN, Eldred L, Borkowf CB for the INSPIRE Team. Results from a randomized controlled trial of a peer-mentoring intervention to reduce HIV transmission and increase access to care and adherence to HIV medications among HIV-seropositive injection drug users. JAIDS. (in press)

Tobin KE, Muessig K, Latkin CA (2007). HIV Seropositive Drug Users’ Attitudes Towards Partner Notification (PCRS): Results from the SHIELD Study in Baltimore, Maryland. Patient Ed and Counseling. (in press)

Davey MA, Latkin CA, Hua W, Tobin KE, Strathdee SA (2007). Individual and Social Network Factors that Predict Entry to Drug Treatment. Am J Addiction. 16(1): 38-45.

Tobin KE, Hua W, Costenbader E, Latkin CA (2007). The Association between Change in Social Network Characteristics and Non-fatal Overdose: Results from the SHIELD Study in Baltimore, Maryland USA. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 87(1):63-8

Tobin KE, Gaasch W, Clarke C, Mackenzie E, Latkin C (2005). Attitudes of EMS Service Providers towards Naloxone Distribution Programs. Journal of Urban Health 82(2): 296-302.

Hong Y, Mitchell SG, Peterson JA, , Latkin CA, Tobin KE, Gann D, (2005). Ethnographic Process Evaluation: Piloting an HIV Prevention Intervention Program among IDUs. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 4(1):1-10.

Tobin KE, Davey MA, & Latkin CA (2005). Calling Emergency Medical Services during Drug Overdose: An examination of individual, social, and setting correlates. Addiction 100(3): 397-404.

Tobin KE, Tang AM, Gilbert SH, Latkin CA (2004). Correlates of HIV antibody testing among a sample of injection drug users: The Role of Social and Contextual Factors. AIDS and Behavior 8(3): 303-310.

Latkin CA, Hua W, Tobin KE (2003). Social Network Correlates of Self-Reported Non-Fatal Overdose. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 73(1):61-67.

Tobin KE & Latkin CA (2003). The Relationship between Depressive Symptoms and Non-Fatal Overdose. Journal of Urban Health 80(2):220-229.

Latkin CA, Tobin KE, Gilbert SH (2002). The Role of Religious Behaviors and HIV-Related Health Care among Drug Users in Baltimore, Maryland. AIDS and Behavior 6(4):321-329.