• PHD Epidemiology, University of North Carolina 1997
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa 25%-49% • Latin America 10%-24% • Southeast Asia 10%-24%
Specialization:
Africa, AIDS prevention and trends. Focuses on sexual behavior, sexual partners, HIV infections and prostitutions in developing countries such as China and Singapore.
Relevant Experience:
• Ghana PLACE Study (USAID/Ghana) • Co-Principal Investigator: Ongoing Research through MEASURE: Zimbabwe PLACE Study: Focus on Orphans (UNICEF & USAID/Washington) • Prevention Technical Working Group for the General Population and Most at Risk Populations, the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief • Senior Measurement and Evaluation Specialist, MEASURE Evaluation Project, UNC • Co-Chair, Technical Working Group of Monitoring and Evaluation of Prevention for Most at Risk Populations, Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group, UNAIDS HIV-Prevalence Study in Malawi (DFID)
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Carolina Population Fellow
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• EPID 690, Problems in Epidemiology, section title: HIV in Developing Countries; EPID 757, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries. • EPID 757, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries.
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Miller, William M., William C. Miller, Clare Barrington, Sharon S. Weir, Sanny Y. Chen, Michael E. Emch, Audrey E. Pettifor, and Gabriela Paz-Bailey. "The Where and how for Reaching Transgender Women and Men Who have Sex with Men with HIV Prevention Services in Guatemala." AIDS and Behavior (2016): 1-8.
• 2015 Collins-Fairclough, Aneisha Marica, Ann M. Dennis, Julie A. E. Nelson, Sharon S. Weir, and Peter Figueroa. "HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance among Jamaican Men Who have Sex with Men should be Prioritized for Reducing HIV Transmission." AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses (2015): 150529064347008.
• 2015 Merli, MG, J. Moody, J. Smith, J. Li, S. Weir, and XS Chen. "Challenges to Recruiting Population Representative Samples of Female Sex Workers in China using Respondent Driven Sampling." Social Science & Medicine 125, (2015;2014;): 79-93
• 2015 Weir, Sharon S., J. Peter Figueroa, Lovette L. Byfield, Marion A. Scott, Marcia M. Hobbs, Jessie E. Edwards, and Jacqueline P. Duncan. "“Do You Think Your Main Partner has Other Sex Partners?” A Simple Question Provides Insight into Sexual Risk in Jamaica." International Journal of STD & AIDS 26, no. 1 (2015): 37-41.
• 2014 Weir SS, Merli MG, et al. Comparison of Venue-based and respondent driven sampling of sex workers, in press, Sexually Transmitted Infection 2012 Dec 88 (Suppl 2), i95-i101 doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2012-050638 [PubMed - in process]
• 2012 Figueroa JP, Weir SS, Jones Cooper C, Byfield L, Hobbs M, Mcknight I, Cummings S. High HIV Prevalence is associated with Social Vulnerability and other Sexually Transmitted Infections. West Indian Med J 2012.
• 2012 Li J, Chen XS, Merli MG, Weir SS, Henderson GE.Systematic Differences in Risk Behaviors and Syphilis Prevalence Across Types of Female Sex Workers: A Preliminary Study in Liuzhou, China. Sex Transm Dis. 2012 Mar;39(3):195-200.
• 2012 Weir, S.; Yamanis, T.J., et al, “From Coitus to Concurrency: Sexual Partnership Characteristics and Risk Behaviors of 15-19 Year Old Men Recruited from Urban Venues in Tanzania.” AIDS and Behavior.
• 2008 Khan MR, Patnaik P, Brown L, Nagot N, Salouka S, Weir SS. Mobility and HIV-Related Sexual Behavior in Burkina Faso.AIDS Behav. 2008;12(2):202-12.
• 2008 Khan MR, Rasolofomanana JR, McClamroch KJ, Ralisimalala A, Zafimanjaka MG, Behets F, Weir SS. High-Risk Sexual Behavior at Social Venues in Madagascar.Sex Transm Dis. 2008; 35(8):738-45.
• 2006 Khan M, Brown L, Nagot N, Salouka S, Weir SS. HIV-related sexual behavior in urban, rural and border areas of Burkina Faso. AIDS Behav 2006; 10: 607-617.
• 2005 Weir SS, Tate J, Hileman SB, Khan M, Jackson E, Johnston A, Herman C. Priorities for Local AIDS Control Efforts: A Manual for Implementing the PLACE Method, Carolina Population Center, 2005.
• 2003 Mahalela X., Pailman C., Weir S.S., et al,
"From people to places: focusing AIDS prevention efforts where it matters most," AIDS: 17 , 895-903 , (2003).
• 2002 Coetzee N., Morroni C., Weir S.S., et al, "A pilot study of a rapid assessment method to identify places for AIDS prevention in Cape Town, South Africa,"
Sex Trans Infections: 78 , (suppl I) , i106-i113 , (2002).
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