Faculty
Mark Lurie
Assistant Professor:
Community Health and Medicine
Phone: +1 401 863 7593
Phone 2: +1 401 863 3713
Mark_Lurie@Brown.EDU
Read Mark Lurie's full Faculty Research Profile.
Mark Lurie, Ph.D., is a social epidemiologist working on the HIV/AIDS, STI, and TB in sub-Saharan Africa. He has studied the role of migration in the spread of HIV in South Africa, examined the evidence for concurrency as a major driver of the HIV epidemic, and his current research, through an NIH R-01 examines the impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV epidemic dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Biography
Dr. Lurie, a native South African, earned his Masters Degree in African History from the University of Florida in 1991 and his PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 2001.
Interests
Dr. Lurie's main research focus is on the public health impact of antiretroviral (ART) HIV therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has examined the impact of ART on secondary HIV transmission in South Africa through a NIH Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K-01) grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Lurie's newest project attempts to quantify the impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV epidemic dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, a collaboration with the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa and Erasmus Medical College in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In addition to the above collaborations, Dr. Lurie also works closely with colleagues at the Agincourt Demographic Surveillance System in Limpopo Province, South Africa (examining issues of migration and health); the Perinatal HIV Research Unit at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa (focusing on behavioral issues among a clinical cohort of HIV-infected urban and rural patients); The South African Medical Research Council's Health Systems Research Unit in Cape Town (examining the feasibility of a HIV prevention among a group of HIV-positive patients).
Degrees
PhD
Teaching
Dr. Lurie currently teaches BC 0191, a seminar for seniors who have an academic concentration in Community Health. The course is entitled: Health and Human Rights.
Dr. Lurie's new course, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, a graduate-level seminar, starts in January 2010.
