IHCCM - Faculty

Lydia N. Drumright, PhD MPH is an infectious disease epidemiologist in the Division of International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine. She earned her doctorate in Epidemiology from the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health at UCSD and SDSU, where her work focused on behavioral and biological factors associated with HIV-1 transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM) with acute and early infection, and partnership factors associated with STI transmission among adolescent populations. She earned her MPH in Health Education and Community Health at California State University, Northridge where she focused on implementation and evaluation of public health interventions. During this time, she spent two years training in outbreak investigation and control at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

Current areas of research included use of ‘club’ drugs and HIV transmission, prevention of HIV, and transmission probabilities among MSM. Dr. Drumright’s research interests also include molecular epidemiology of disease spread, examination of STI/HIV transmission within partnerships and sexual networks, and innovative ways to combine molecular and behavioral epidemiological information.

Selected Publications:

Drumright LN, Gorbach PM, Holmes KK. "Do People Really Know Their Sex Partners?: Concurrency, Knowledge of Partner Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Diseases within Partnerships" Sexually Transmitted Disease. 2004; 31(7): 437-442.

Gorbach PM, Drumright LN, Holmes KK "Discord, Discordance & Concurrency: Comparing Individual and Partnership Analyses of New Partnerships of Young Adults at High Risk". Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2005; 32(1): 7-12

Gorbach PM, Drumright LN, Daar ES, Little SJ. Transmission behaviors of recently HIV-infected men who have sex with men. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2006;42(1):80-5.

Drumright LN, Patterson TL, Strathdee SA. Club Drugs as Causal Risk Factors for HIV Acquisition among MSM: A Review . Substance Use and Misuse. 2006, 41(10-12); 1551-1601.

Drumright LN, Little SJ, Strathdee SA, Slymen DJ, Araneta MRG, Malcarne VL, Daar ES, Gorbach PM. "Unprotected anal intercourse and substance use among men who have sex with men with recent HIV infection". Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2006, 43 (3); 344-350.

Smith DM, Drumright LN, Frost SDW, Cheng WS, Espita S, Daar ES, Little SJ, Gorbach PM. "Recently HIV-Infected Men Who Use the Internet to Find Male Sex Partners" Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. In press 2006, 43 (5); 582-587.

Drumright LN, Strathdee SA, Little SJ, Slymen DJ, Araneta MRG, Malcarne VL, Daar ES, Gorbach PM. "Unprotected anal intercourse and substance use before and after HIV diagnosis among recently HIV infected men who have sex with men". Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2006, 33 (12); 1-7.