Kim M. Blankenship, Ph.D.

Roles:

• Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, American University

• Director, Center on Health, Risk and Society at American University

Biography:

Kim M. Blankenship, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center on Health, Risk and Society at American University. She previously served on the faculty of Sociology at Duke University and at the Duke Global Health Institute (2008-2010) and on the faculty at Yale University, where she was also Associate Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (1998-2008). Research and publications focus on race, class, and gender analyses of health, with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS. She has received funding from NIDA, NIMH, CDC, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Current research includes a mixed methods study of the implementation and impact of community mobilization interventions for HIV prevention in female sex workers in India (BMGF); and a mixed methods, longitudinal study of the impact of criminal justice involvement on HIV related risk of re-entrants and their sexual partners (NIDA).

CIRA Affiliated Projects:

• Criminal Justice, Race, and HIV Risk in CT Drug Users

• Drug Policy, Incarceration, Community Re-entry, and Race Disparities in HIV/AIDS (SHARPP II)

• Project Parivartan: Structural Interventions and HIV Prevention among Sex Workers, their Clients, and Injection Drug Users in India

• Project Parivartan: Structural Interventions and HIV Prevention among Sex Workers and their Clients in India (supplement)

• Structural Interventions to Reduce HIV Incidence in Drug Users

• Supportive Housing for PLHA: Risk Behaviors and Prevention Interventions

• Women's Sexual Behavior in the Context of Injection Drug Use