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Principal Investigator/Program Director (Last, first, middle):

CLAIR, SCOTT

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

 

 

NAME

 

Scott Clair, Ph. D.

POSITION TITLE

 

Associate Scientist

 

EDUCATION/TRAINING 

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

(if applicable)

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDY

University of Iowa

B.S.

1991

Psychology

University of Houston

M.A

1993

Social Psychology

University of Houston

Ph.D.

1996

Social Psychology

 

EXPERIENCE

1991-1995       Pre-Doctoral Fellow - NHLBI Training Grant

1992-1995       Teaching Fellow University of Houston

1995-1996       Data Manager/ Statistical Consultant - Inner City Violence and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Research Group

1995-1996       Data Manager - Social Psychology/ Behavioral Medicine Research Group

1996-1997       Postdoctoral Researcher - Dynamic Social Impact Theory Research Group

1997-1998       Adjunct Faculty Member - Florida Atlantic University

1998- 2003      Senior Data Analyst - Hispanic Health Council

1998- 2003      Associate Research Scientist - Department of Biostatistics, Yale University

2000- 2003      Co-PI Effects of Partner Violence Victimization in Drug Users

2001- 2003      Co-PI Sociocultural Factors on Syringe Sharing and HIV Risks

2001- 2003      Co-PI Assessment of the Drinking Behaviors of Migrant Farm Workers in Connecticut.

2004 – present Associate Scientist, Partnerships in Prevention Science Institute, Iowa State University

 

GRANTS

 

PI    Assessing Oral HIV Testing Among Brazilian Drug Users.  NIDA - $138,180.

 

PI  Orgullo Youth – HIV Prevention Pilot Program for Latino MSM Youth 13 to 18.  Connecticut Department of Public Health - $50,000

 

PI  HIV Prevention Program for Latinos including Project Orgullo for Latino MSMs (adult and youth).  Connecticut Department of Public Health - $94,122 / year.

 

Co-Investigator    Effects of Partner Violence Victimization in Drug Users.  NIDA  - $428,364

 

Co-Investigator     Sociocultural Factors on Syringe Sharing and HIV Risks in China.  NIDA - $69,300

 

PUBLICATIONS

    Clair, S. Schensul, J.J., Raju, M., Stanke, E., & Pino, R. (in press) Will You Remember Me In the Morning?  Test-Retest Reliability of a Social Network Analysis Examining HIV-Related Risky Behavior in Urban Adolescents and Young Adults.  Connections.

    Duke, M., Teng, W., Clair, S., Salaheen, H., Choice, P., & Singer, M.. (in press).  Patterns of Intimate Partner Violence Among Drug Using Women.  In Gangs, Drugs, & Violence, Alberto G. Mata Jr. (Ed.):  Edwin Mellen Press.

    Duke, M., Teng, W., Clair, S., Salaheen, H., Choice, P., & Singer, M. (2004).  Patterns of intimate partner violence among drug using women.  Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology (in press). 

    Singer, M., & Clair, S. (in press).  Syndemics and Public Health: Reconceptualizing Disease in Bio-Social Context.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

    Singer, M., Huebner, C., Clair, S., Schensul, J., & Eiserman, J. (in press).  Dust in the Wind: The Growing Use of Embalming Fluid Among Youth in Hartford, CT.  Substance Use and Misuse.

    Clair, S. Singer, M., Huertas, E., & Weeks, M. (2003) Unintended Consequences of Using an Oral HIV Test on HIV Knowledge.  AIDS Care 15(4): 575-580.

    Clair, S., Teng, W., Stopka, T, Li, J., & Saleheen, H. (2003).  Living in an Inverted World: Experiences of Non-Anthropologists in an Anthropologically Driven Research Center.  Practicing Anthropology 25(3):12-15.

    Li, J., Shaw, S., Clair, S., &Singer, M. (2003).  The Tensions of Unity: Challenges of Community-Centered Research.  Practicing Anthropology 25(3): 8-11.

    Heimer, R., Clair, S., Teng, W., Grau, L, Khoshnood, K. & Singer, M. (2002).  Effects of Increasing Syringe Availability on Syringe Exchange Use and HIV Risk: Connecticut, 1990-2001.  Journal of Urban Health, 79(4) 556-570.

   Heimer, R., Clair, S., Grau, L. E., Bluthenthal, R. N., Marshall, P. A., & Singer, M. (2002).  Hepatitis-associated Knowledge Is Low And Risks Are High Among HIV-Savvy Injection Drug Users in Three U.S. Cities.  Addiction, 97 1277-1287.

    Weeks, M.R., Clair, S., Borgatti, S.P., Radda, K., & Schensul, J.J. (2002) Social Networks of Drug Users In High Risk Sites: Finding the Connections.  Aids and Behavior, 6, 193-206.

    Weeks, M. R., Clair, S., Singer, M., Radda, K., Schensul, J. J., Wilson, D.S., Martinez, M., Scott, G., Knight, G. (2001).  High Risk Drug Use Sites, Meaning and Practice: Implications for AIDS Prevention.  Journal of Drug Issues, Summer 2001, 781-808.

    Schensul, J.J., Radda, K., Weeks, M., & Clair, S (in press).  Ethnicity, social networks and HIV risk in older drug users.  Advances in Medical Sociology Volume 8: Social networks and Health, B. Pescoslido & J. Levy (Eds.) London: Oxford Press.

    Duckworth, M. P., Hale, D. D., Clair, S., Adams, H. E. (2000).  Influence of Interpersonal Violence and Community Chaos on Stress Reactions in Children.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence 15(8),  pp. 806-826.

    Clair, S. (1998). A Cusp Catastrophe  Model for adolescent alcohol use: An Empirical test.  Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences 2 (3), pp. 217-242.

    Carvajal, S., Clair, S. Nash, S., & Evans, R. I. (1998).  Relating Optimism, Hope, and Self-Esteem to Social influences in deterring substance use in adolescents.  Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 17(4) pp. 443-465.

    Harris, J., Lynn, M., & Clair, S. (1991).  Scarcity’s polarization of evaluations: Current Theories and null results.  Representative Research in Social Psychology.  19(2): 121-135.

    Weeks, M.R., Borgatti, S.P., Clair, S., Martinez, M., & Rooks, R (under review).  Linking people through places: urban drug user social networks and connections to drug-use sites.

 

PRESENTATIONS

    Clair, S., Spoth, R., & Shin, C. (2004).  Assessing the Effects of Social Network Variables on Project Retention: It’s Who You Know Not What You Know.  Presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research.  Quebec City, Canada, 2004.

    Spoth, R., Redmond, C., Shin, C.,  & Clair, S. (2004).   Community Partnership Effectiveness in Recruiting for Universal, Evidence-Based Family Interventions.  Presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research.  Quebec City, Canada, 2004.

 

    Clair, S., Weeks, M., Borgatti, S. & Mosack, K. (2003).  Share and Share Alike: An Examination of HIV Status Disclosure Patterns Among Street Drug Users.  Presented at the 23rd International Sunbelt Social Network Conference.  Cancun, Mexico, 2003.

    Clair, S., Weeks, M., Borgatti, S. & Mosack, K. (2003).  That is on a “Need to Know Basis”: HIV Status Disclosure Patterns Among Street Drug Users.  Presented at AIDS Science Day 2003.  New Haven, CT, 2003.

     Clair, S., Boticello, P., & Ornato, J. An In-Depth Look at the Risk Behaviors and Service Needs of At-Risk MSMs in Connecticut.  Presented at AIDS Science Day 2002.  New Haven, CT, 2002.

     Clair, S., Weeks, M., & Borgatti, S. Who is King of the Hill?  A Method for Choosing PHAs Among Street Drug Users.  Presented at the 22nd International Sunbelt Social Network Conference.  New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002