List of works - Robert Heimer

A Community Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Case Study in Protecting the Health and Human Rights of People Who Use Drugs

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

A tale of two cities: stigma and health outcomes among people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia

scientific article

Access to syringes for HIV prevention for injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: syringe purchase test study.

scientific article

Age at first alcoholic drink as predictor of current HIV sexual risk behaviors among a sample of injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who are sexual partners of IDUs, in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article published in August 2012

Assessment of HIV testing of urban injection drug users: implications for expansion of HIV testing and prevention efforts

scientific article published on 30 November 2006

Associations between injection risk and community disadvantage among suburban injection drug users in southwestern Connecticut, USA.

scientific article published on March 2014

Barriers to medical provider support for prescription naloxone as overdose antidote for lay responders

scientific article

Can home-made injectable opiates contribute to the HIV epidemic among injection drug users in the countries of the former Soviet Union?

scientific article published in May 2006

Clients of street-based female sex workers and potential bridging of HIV/STI in Russia: results of a pilot study

scientific article

Coalition building by drug user and sex worker community-based organizations in Vietnam can lead to improved interactions with government agencies: a qualitative study

scientific article

Collaboration or coercion? Partnering to divert prescription opioid medications

scientific article published on August 2013

Community reentry challenges after release from prison among people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article published on September 2015

Comparing sexual risks and patterns of alcohol and drug use between injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who report sexual partnerships with IDUs in St. Petersburg, Russia.

scientific article

Comparison of satisfaction with care between two different models of HIV care delivery in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article

Comparison of subset selection methods in linear regression in the context of health-related quality of life and substance abuse in Russia

scientific article

Condom use and partnership intimacy among drug injectors and their sexual partners in Estonia

scientific article published on 4 November 2011

Correlates of unprotected sexual intercourse among women who inject drugs or who have sexual partners who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russia.

scientific article

Demographic, HIV risk behavior, and health status characteristics of "crack" cocaine injectors compared to other injection drug users in three New England cities

scientific article published on 19 September 2005

Differences in risk behaviours and HIV status between primary amphetamines and opioid injectors in Estonia and Russia

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Distinguishing signs of opioid overdose and indication for naloxone: an evaluation of six overdose training and naloxone distribution programs in the United States

scientific article

Drug choice, spatial distribution, HIV risk, and HIV prevalence among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.

scientific article published on 31 July 2009

Drug network characteristics and HIV risk among injection drug users in Russia: the roles of trust, size, and stability

scientific article

Drug users in Hanoi, Vietnam: factors associated with membership in community-based drug user groups

scientific article

Economic evaluation of delivering hepatitis B vaccine to injection drug users

scientific article published on July 2008

Effects of increasing syringe availability on syringe-exchange use and HIV risk: Connecticut, 1990-2001.

scientific article

Emergence of methadone as a street drug in St. Petersburg, Russia.

scientific article

Engagement in HIV care and its correlates among people who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russian Federation and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Epidemiologic trends and geographic patterns of fatal opioid intoxications in Connecticut, USA: 1997-2007.

scientific article

Estimates of HIV incidence among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: continued growth of a rapidly expanding epidemic.

scientific article

Estimation of the number of injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article

Expanding harm reduction services through a wound and abscess clinic

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Factors associated with hepatitis B vaccine series completion in a randomized trial for injection drug users reached through syringe exchange programs in three US cities

scientific article

HIV Risk, Prevalence, and Access to Care Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Lebanon.

scientific article published on 25 May 2017

HIV disclosure, condom use, and awareness of HIV infection among HIV-positive, heterosexual drug injectors in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

scientific article

HIV prevalence and risk behavior among injection drug users and their sex partners in two Russian cities

scientific article published on 18 December 2012

HIV prevalence, sociodemographic, and behavioral correlates and recruitment methods among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article

HIV testing among people who inject drugs in Ivanovo and Novosibirsk, Russia

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

HIV transmission from drug injectors to partners who do not inject, and beyond: modelling the potential for a generalized heterosexual epidemic in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article published on 18 May 2013

HIV-care access among people with incarceration experience in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

Hepatitis C virus infection among drug injectors in St Petersburg, Russia: social and molecular epidemiology of an endemic infection

scientific article

Hepatitis C virus seroprevalence among people who inject drugs and factors associated with infection in eight Russian cities

scientific article

Hidden population size estimation from respondent-driven sampling: a network approach

scientific article published on 06 March 2018

High HIV prevalence, suboptimal HIV testing, and low knowledge of HIV-positive serostatus among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.

scientific article

High prevalence of blood-borne virus infections and high-risk behaviour among injecting drug users in Tallinn, Estonia

scientific article

High-risk behaviors after release from incarceration among people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article

Impact of incarceration experiences on reported HIV status and associated risk behaviours and disease comorbidities

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Individual-level, network-level and city-level factors associated with HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs in eight Russian cities: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Internalized HIV and Drug Stigmas: Interacting Forces Threatening Health Status and Health Service Utilization Among People with HIV Who Inject Drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article published on 7 June 2015

Law enforcement attitudes toward overdose prevention and response

scientific article published on 02 September 2013

Lower injection-related HIV-1 risk associated with participation in a harm reduction program in Kazan, Russia

scientific article published on February 2007

Moderate/heavy alcohol use and HCV infection among injection drug users in two Russian cities

scientific article published on May 2013

Non-fatal overdoses and related risk factors among people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

P61 Psychosocial determinants of HIV disclosure to confidants with different HIV status

article

Patterns of drug use and abuse among aging adults with and without HIV: a latent class analysis of a US Veteran cohort

scientific article

Pharmacies as providers of expanded health services for people who inject drugs: a review of laws, policies, and barriers in six countries

scientific article (publication date: 17 June 2014)

Police training to align law enforcement and HIV prevention: preliminary evidence from the field

article

Polydrug Use and Heterogeneity in HIV Risk Among People Who Inject Drugs in Estonia and Russia: A Latent Class Analysis

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Post-incarceration factors and relapse to opioid injection in St. Petersburg, Russia

scholarly article by Javier A. Cepeda et al published January 2015 in Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Potential bridges of heterosexual HIV transmission from drug users to the general population in St. Petersburg, Russia: is it easy to be a young female?

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

Prevalence and experience of chronic pain in suburban drug injectors

scientific article published on 19 March 2015

Prevalence and predictors of transitions to and away from syringe exchange use over time in 3 US cities with varied syringe dispensing policies

scientific article

Prevention knowledge, risk behaviours and seroprevalence among nonurban injectors of southwest Connecticut

scientific article

Psychosocial and contextual correlates of opioid overdose risk among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Re: "Risk of hepatitis C virus among young adult injection drug users who share injection equipment".

scientific article published in February 2003

Recovering Infectious HIV from Novel Syringe-Needle Combinations with Low Dead Space Volumes

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

Secondary syringe exchange as a model for HIV prevention programs in the Russian Federation

scientific article published on January 2006

Seroprevalence of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and HCV among injection drug users in Connecticut: understanding infection and coinfection risks in a nonurban population.

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Sex work, injection drug use, and abscesses: Associations in women, but not men.

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

Sexual Partners of Street-Based Female Sex Workers in St. Petersburg, Russia: A Model of Partnership Characteristics as a Basis for Further Research

scientific article

Simultaneous recruitment of drug users and men who have sex with men in the United States and Russia using respondent-driven sampling: sampling methods and implications

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

Social and structural aspects of the overdose risk environment in St. Petersburg, Russia

scientific article published on 05 September 2008

Spatial distribution of HIV prevalence and incidence among injection drugs users in St Petersburg: implications for HIV transmission

scientific article published on January 2008

Statistical design for a small serial dilution series

scientific article

Structural interventions to improve opiate maintenance

Subpopulations of illicit drug users reached by targeted street outreach and respondent-driven sampling strategies: implications for research and public health practice

scientific article

Surveillance of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus in an estonian injection drug-using population: sensitivity and specificity of testing syringes for public health surveillance

scientific article

Survival of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 after rinsing injection syringes with different cleaning solutions

scientific article published in March 2004

Syringe use and reuse: effects of syringe exchange programs in four cities.

scientific article published on January 1998

The Role of Internalized Stigma in the Disclosure of Injecting Drug Use Among People Who Inject Drugs and Self-Report as HIV-Positive in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia.

scientific article

The feasibility of HIV vaccine efficacy trials among Russian injection drug users

scientific article published on 03 August 2007

The potential for bridging of HIV transmission in the Russian Federation: sex risk behaviors and HIV prevalence among drug users (DUs) and their non-DU sex partners

scientific article published on 09 June 2009

The rate of epidemiological and virological changes during the transition from nascent to concentrated HIV epidemic stage in the former Soviet Union countries

scientific article published in February 2007

The roles of law, client race and program visibility in shaping police interference with the operation of US syringe exchange programs

scientific article

Two Independent HIV Epidemics in Saint Petersburg, Russia Revealed by Molecular Epidemiology.

scientific article published on 5 January 2015

Using data from respondent-driven sampling studies to estimate the number of people who inject drugs: Application to the Kohtla-Järve region of Estonia.

scientific article

Violence and Discrimination Against Men Who Have Sex With Men in Lebanon: The Role of International Displacement and Migration

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

List of works by Robert Heimer

A Community Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Case Study in Protecting the Health and Human Rights of People Who Use Drugs

A tale of two cities: stigma and health outcomes among people with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia

Access to syringes for HIV prevention for injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: syringe purchase test study.

Age at first alcoholic drink as predictor of current HIV sexual risk behaviors among a sample of injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who are sexual partners of IDUs, in St. Petersburg, Russia

Assessment of HIV testing of urban injection drug users: implications for expansion of HIV testing and prevention efforts

Associations between injection risk and community disadvantage among suburban injection drug users in southwestern Connecticut, USA.

Barriers to medical provider support for prescription naloxone as overdose antidote for lay responders

Can home-made injectable opiates contribute to the HIV epidemic among injection drug users in the countries of the former Soviet Union?

Clients of street-based female sex workers and potential bridging of HIV/STI in Russia: results of a pilot study

Coalition building by drug user and sex worker community-based organizations in Vietnam can lead to improved interactions with government agencies: a qualitative study

Collaboration or coercion? Partnering to divert prescription opioid medications

Community reentry challenges after release from prison among people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia

Comparing sexual risks and patterns of alcohol and drug use between injection drug users (IDUs) and non-IDUs who report sexual partnerships with IDUs in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Comparison of satisfaction with care between two different models of HIV care delivery in St. Petersburg, Russia

Comparison of subset selection methods in linear regression in the context of health-related quality of life and substance abuse in Russia

Condom use and partnership intimacy among drug injectors and their sexual partners in Estonia

Correlates of unprotected sexual intercourse among women who inject drugs or who have sexual partners who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russia.

Demographic, HIV risk behavior, and health status characteristics of "crack" cocaine injectors compared to other injection drug users in three New England cities

Differences in risk behaviours and HIV status between primary amphetamines and opioid injectors in Estonia and Russia

Distinguishing signs of opioid overdose and indication for naloxone: an evaluation of six overdose training and naloxone distribution programs in the United States

Drug choice, spatial distribution, HIV risk, and HIV prevalence among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Drug network characteristics and HIV risk among injection drug users in Russia: the roles of trust, size, and stability

Drug users in Hanoi, Vietnam: factors associated with membership in community-based drug user groups

Economic evaluation of delivering hepatitis B vaccine to injection drug users

Effects of increasing syringe availability on syringe-exchange use and HIV risk: Connecticut, 1990-2001.

Emergence of methadone as a street drug in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Engagement in HIV care and its correlates among people who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russian Federation and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia

Epidemiologic trends and geographic patterns of fatal opioid intoxications in Connecticut, USA: 1997-2007.

Estimates of HIV incidence among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia: continued growth of a rapidly expanding epidemic.

Estimation of the number of injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia

Expanding harm reduction services through a wound and abscess clinic

Factors associated with hepatitis B vaccine series completion in a randomized trial for injection drug users reached through syringe exchange programs in three US cities

HIV Risk, Prevalence, and Access to Care Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Lebanon.

HIV disclosure, condom use, and awareness of HIV infection among HIV-positive, heterosexual drug injectors in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

HIV prevalence and risk behavior among injection drug users and their sex partners in two Russian cities

HIV prevalence, sociodemographic, and behavioral correlates and recruitment methods among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia

HIV testing among people who inject drugs in Ivanovo and Novosibirsk, Russia

HIV transmission from drug injectors to partners who do not inject, and beyond: modelling the potential for a generalized heterosexual epidemic in St. Petersburg, Russia

HIV-care access among people with incarceration experience in St. Petersburg, Russia

Hepatitis C virus infection among drug injectors in St Petersburg, Russia: social and molecular epidemiology of an endemic infection

Hepatitis C virus seroprevalence among people who inject drugs and factors associated with infection in eight Russian cities

Hidden population size estimation from respondent-driven sampling: a network approach

High HIV prevalence, suboptimal HIV testing, and low knowledge of HIV-positive serostatus among injection drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia.

High prevalence of blood-borne virus infections and high-risk behaviour among injecting drug users in Tallinn, Estonia

High-risk behaviors after release from incarceration among people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia

Impact of incarceration experiences on reported HIV status and associated risk behaviours and disease comorbidities

Individual-level, network-level and city-level factors associated with HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs in eight Russian cities: a cross-sectional study

Internalized HIV and Drug Stigmas: Interacting Forces Threatening Health Status and Health Service Utilization Among People with HIV Who Inject Drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia

Law enforcement attitudes toward overdose prevention and response

Lower injection-related HIV-1 risk associated with participation in a harm reduction program in Kazan, Russia

Moderate/heavy alcohol use and HCV infection among injection drug users in two Russian cities

Non-fatal overdoses and related risk factors among people who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia

P61 Psychosocial determinants of HIV disclosure to confidants with different HIV status

Patterns of drug use and abuse among aging adults with and without HIV: a latent class analysis of a US Veteran cohort

Pharmacies as providers of expanded health services for people who inject drugs: a review of laws, policies, and barriers in six countries

Police training to align law enforcement and HIV prevention: preliminary evidence from the field

Polydrug Use and Heterogeneity in HIV Risk Among People Who Inject Drugs in Estonia and Russia: A Latent Class Analysis

Post-incarceration factors and relapse to opioid injection in St. Petersburg, Russia

Potential bridges of heterosexual HIV transmission from drug users to the general population in St. Petersburg, Russia: is it easy to be a young female?

Prevalence and experience of chronic pain in suburban drug injectors

Prevalence and predictors of transitions to and away from syringe exchange use over time in 3 US cities with varied syringe dispensing policies

Prevention knowledge, risk behaviours and seroprevalence among nonurban injectors of southwest Connecticut

Psychosocial and contextual correlates of opioid overdose risk among drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia

Re: "Risk of hepatitis C virus among young adult injection drug users who share injection equipment".

Recovering Infectious HIV from Novel Syringe-Needle Combinations with Low Dead Space Volumes

Secondary syringe exchange as a model for HIV prevention programs in the Russian Federation

Seroprevalence of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and HCV among injection drug users in Connecticut: understanding infection and coinfection risks in a nonurban population.

Sex work, injection drug use, and abscesses: Associations in women, but not men.

Sexual Partners of Street-Based Female Sex Workers in St. Petersburg, Russia: A Model of Partnership Characteristics as a Basis for Further Research

Simultaneous recruitment of drug users and men who have sex with men in the United States and Russia using respondent-driven sampling: sampling methods and implications

Social and structural aspects of the overdose risk environment in St. Petersburg, Russia

Spatial distribution of HIV prevalence and incidence among injection drugs users in St Petersburg: implications for HIV transmission

Statistical design for a small serial dilution series

Structural interventions to improve opiate maintenance

Subpopulations of illicit drug users reached by targeted street outreach and respondent-driven sampling strategies: implications for research and public health practice

Surveillance of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus in an estonian injection drug-using population: sensitivity and specificity of testing syringes for public health surveillance

Survival of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 after rinsing injection syringes with different cleaning solutions

Syringe use and reuse: effects of syringe exchange programs in four cities.

The Role of Internalized Stigma in the Disclosure of Injecting Drug Use Among People Who Inject Drugs and Self-Report as HIV-Positive in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia.