Mark Lurie, Ph.D., is a social epidemiologist working on the HIV/AIDS, STI, and TB in sub-Saharan Africa. He has studied the role of migration in the spread of HIV in South Africa, examined the evidence for concurrency as a major driver of the HIV epidemic, and his current research, through an NIH R-01 examines the impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV epidemic dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Biography

Dr. Lurie, a native South African, earned his Masters Degree in African History from the University of Florida in 1991 and his PhD in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 2001.

Institutions

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Research Description

Dr. Lurie's main research focus is on the public health impact of antiretroviral (ART) HIV therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has examined the impact of ART on secondary HIV transmission in South Africa through a NIH Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K-01) grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. Lurie's newest project attempts to quantify the impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV epidemic dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa, a collaboration with the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa and Erasmus Medical College in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.


In addition to the above collaborations, Dr. Lurie also works closely with colleagues at the Agincourt Demographic Surveillance System in Limpopo Province, South Africa (examining issues of migration and health); the Perinatal HIV Research Unit at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa (focusing on behavioral issues among a clinical cohort of HIV-infected urban and rural patients); The South African Medical Research Council's Health Systems Research Unit in Cape Town (examining the feasibility of a HIV prevention among a group of HIV-positive patients).

Awards

2001–2003 Recipient, National Research Service Award, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1992–2001 Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene And Public Health
Honors: Recipient of the Hess and Wright Scholarships in International Health
1992 University Of Florida; Gainesville, Florida
Honors: Recipient Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship from the Center for African Studies, and Grinter Fellowships from the History Department
1991 University Of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, California
Honors: Recipient Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

Affiliations

Population Association of America
Biosocial Society

Funded Research

ACTIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

1.Lurie, Mark N (PI) 07/01/2009-06/30/2013
R-01. NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
The Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on HIV Epidemic Dynamics

COMPLETED RESEARCH

1. Lurie, Mark N (PI) 12/01/2003-11/30/2008
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
K-01 Career Development Award
"The Public Health Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa"

2. Lurie, Mark N (PI) 1/1/2005-12/31/2005
Brown University, Salomon Grant Award
"HIV/AIDS Related Risk Behaviors Among Young People in the Context of Expanded Access to Testing and Treatment in South Africa"

3. Lurie, Mark N (PI) 7/1/2005-6/30/2006
Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Development Award
"Barriers to Accessing HIV Testing and Treatment: Towards more Effective Interventions for South African Youth"
4. Abdool Karim SS (PI) 01/01/2002-12/31/2006
Lurie, Mark N (Co-Investigator)
National Institutes of Health
Collaborative AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)

5. Lurie, Mark N (PI) 03/01/1998-06/01/2002
The Wellcome Trust (U.K.)
"Migration and the Spread of HIV/STD in South Africa"
Goal: To conduct a cohort study to measure the effect of migration, or population movement, on the spread of HIV and other STDs in South Africa in order to define appropriate targeted HIV/STD treatment and prevention programmes for migrants and their partners.
Click here for study protocol (pdf document)

Teaching Experience

Dr. Lurie currently teaches BC 0191, a seminar for seniors who have an academic concentration in Community Health. The course is entitled: Health and Human Rights.

Dr. Lurie's new course, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, a graduate-level seminar, starts in January 2010.

Courses Taught

• Health and Human Rights (BC0191)

Selected Publications

• Mark Lurie. Population Movement and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. In Abdool Karim SS and Abdool Karim Q (eds). HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-521-61629-8.(2005)
• David Mkaya-Mwamburi, Nozizwe Dladla, Ethel Qwana, Mark Lurie. Who wants to know and why? Factors associated with wanting to know HIV results in South Africa. 2005; AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 19(8):518-525.(2005)
• Hirut Gebrekristos, Mark Lurie, Nathi Mthethwa, Quarraisha Abdool Karim. Knowledge and Acceptability of HAART among TB Patients in Durban, South Africa. 2005; AIDS Care, 17(6):767-772.(2005)
• Chitra Akileswaran, Mark Lurie, Kenneth Mayer, Timothy Flanigan. Lessons Learned from Experience with Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa. 2005; Clinical Infectious Diseases, 41:376-385.(2005)
• Zuma K, Lurie M. Application and comparison of methods for analysing correlated interval-censored data from sexual partnerships. 2005; Journal of Data Science, 3:241-256.(2005)
• Quach L, McGarvey S, Mayer K, Lurie M, Do P, Nguyen L, Cao T, Nguyen K, Nguyen T, Esposito C. Knowledge Attitudes and Practices about HIV among Physicians in Quang Ninh, Vietnam. 2005; AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 19(5): 335-347.(2005)
• Gebrekristos H, Resch J, Zuma K, Lurie M. Estimating the impact of establishing family housing on the annual risk of HIV infection in the South African mining communities. 2005; Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 32(6):333-340.(2005)
• Zuma K, Lurie M, Williams B, Garnett G, Mkaya-Mwamburi D, Sturm AW. Risk factors for sexually transmitted infections among migrant and non-migrant sexual partnerships from rural South Africa. 2005; Epidemiology and Infection, 133: 421-428.(2005)
• Lurie M, Akileswaran C, Mayer K. Opportunities for Preventing HIV in Treatment Settings in Developing Countries. 2005; Lancet Infectious Diseases, 5:66-68.(2005)
• Lurie M, Carter EJ, Cohen J, Flanigan T. Directly Observed Antiretroviral therapy for HIV/TB Co-Infection 2004; Lancet Infectious Diseases, 4:137-8.(2004)
• Lurie M, Williams B, Zuma K, Mkaya-Mwamburi D, Garnett GP, Sweat MD, Gittelsohn J, Abdool Karim SS. Who infects whom? HIV concordance and discordance among migrant and non-migrant couples in South Africa. 2003; AIDS, 17:2245-2252.(2003)
• Zuma K, Gouws E, Williams B, Lurie M. Risk factors for HIV infection among women in Carletonville, South Africa: migration, demography and sexually transmitted diseases. 2003. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 14:814-817.(2003)
• Lurie M, Williams B, Zuma K, Mkaya-Mwamburi D, Garnett G, Sturm AW, Sweat MD, Gittelsohn J, Abdool Karim SS. The impact of migration on HIV-1 transmission: a study of migrant and non-migrant men, and their partners. 2003. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 40(2):149-156.(2003)
• Dladla N, Hiner C, Qwana E, Lurie M. Speaking to rural women: the sexual partnerships of rural SA women whose partners are migrants. Society in Transition, 2001; 32(1):79-82.(2001)
• Wilkinson D, Abdool Karim SS, Lurie M, Harrison A. Public-private health sector partnerships for STD control in South Africa – perspectives from the Hlabisa experience. South African Medical Journal, 2001; 91(6):517-520.(2001)
• Wilkinson D, Gcabashe L, Lurie M. Traditional healers as tuberculosis treatment supervisors: precedent and potential. International Journal of Tubercle and Lung Disease 2000; Vol. 3(9):838-842.(2000)
• Harrison A, Abdool Karim SS, Floyd K, Lombard C, Lurie M, Ntuli N, Wilkinson D. Syndrome packets and health worker training improve quality of sexually transmitted disease case management in rural South Africa: results of a randomised controlled trial. AIDS, 2000; 14:2769-2779.(2000)
• Harrison A, Montgomery L, Lurie M, Wilkinson D. Barriers to Implementing South Africa's Termination of Pregnancy Act: Case study from Rural KwaZulu/Natal Province. Health Policy and Planning, 2000; 15(4):424-431.(2000)
• Lurie M. Migration and AIDS in Southern Africa: A Review. South African Journal of Science, 2000; Vol. 96(6):343-347.(2000)
• Mark Collinson, Mark Lurie, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman, Brent Wolff. Health consequences of migration: Evidence from South Africa's rural northeast (Agincourt). In Marta Tienda, Sally E. Findley, Stephen Tollman, Eleanor Preston-Whyte, eds. African Migration and Urbanization in Comparative Perspective. Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
• Mark Lurie. Labour Induced Migration and Disease Transmission. In Apostolopolous Y (ed). Crossing Boundaries, Compounding Infections: Perspectives on Population, Migration and Disease. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Forthcoming.