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Michelle Birkett, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences and directs the CONNECT Complex Systems and Health Disparities Research Program within the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Birkett’s research uses network and quantitative methodologies to understand the social contextual influence of stigma on the health and wellbeing of marginalized populations, and in particular, sexual and gender minority youth. This work is influenced by a multilevel perspective of health that considers direct and indirect influences of multiple levels of the social and physical environment. This multilevel approach to understanding health underlies her interest in network data and her commitment to conducting research that leads to social change at multiple levels of society to eliminate health disparities. Dr. Birkett has led multiple NIH-funded projects. She is the recipient of a NIH Career Development Award focused on understanding network, multilevel, and contextual influences on racial disparities in HIV within young men who have sex with men (K08 DA037825). She also directs Network Canvas (R01 DA042711; Dual PIs: Birkett & Phillips), a software development project which seeks to simplify the collection and streamline the management of social data, thereby allowing health researchers to assess more nuanced associations between social contextual factors and disease. She co-leads with Noshir Contractor the Network Data Core of RADAR (U01 DA036939), which is in charge of the collection and analysis longitudinal observations of sexual, drug, and support networks of over 1200 YMSM. Finally, she is an member of the Executive Board of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
Counseling Psychology, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
… → 2010
Research interests keywords
- AIDS
- Adolescent Health
- Big Data
- Bisexual
- Gay
- HIV Infection
- Health Disparities
- Lesbian
- Network Science
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Science
- Systems Science
- Transgender (LGBT) Healthcare
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Network Canvas 2.0: Enhancing network data capture for drug use and HIV research
Birkett, M. A., Janulis, P., Contractor, N. & Phillips II, G.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
4/1/23 → 1/31/28
Project: Research project
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Leveraging data synthesis to identify optimal and robust strategies for HIV elimination among substance-using MSM
Janulis, P., Birkett, M. A., Mustanski, B., Phillips II, G. & Schalet, B. D.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
5/1/22 → 2/28/27
Project: Research project
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RESEARCH AND EVALUATION PROPOSAL OF THE NORTH LAWNDALE COLLABORATIVE
Papachristos, A. V. & Birkett, M. A.
4/1/22 → 3/31/25
Project: Research project
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Ongoing Research and Evaluation of Chicago CRED
Papachristos, A. V., Birkett, M. A. & McGrath, S. A.
3/1/22 → 2/28/25
Project: Research project
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Network canvas: an open-source tool for capturing social and contact network data
Janulis, P., Phillips, G., Melville, J., Hogan, B., Banner, K., Mustanski, B., Oser, C. B., Tillson, M., Schneider, J. & Birkett, M., Aug 1 2023, In: International journal of epidemiology. 52, 4, p. 1286-1291 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Partnership types and coital frequency as predictors of gonorrhea and chlamydia among young MSM and young transgender women
Janulis, P., Goodreau, S. M., Morris, M., Birkett, M., Phillips, G., Risher, K., Mustanski, B. & Jenness, S. M., Sep 2023, In: International Journal of STD and AIDS. 34, 10, p. 694-701 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparing Sexual Network Mean Active Degree Measurement Metrics Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Chandra, C., Morris, M., Van Meter, C., Goodreau, S. M., Sanchez, T., Janulis, P., Birkett, M. & Jenness, S. M., Dec 1 2022, In: Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 49, 12, p. 808-814 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reprint of: Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite
Birkett, M., Melville, J., Janulis, P., Phillips, G., Contractor, N. & Hogan, B., May 2022, In: Social Networks. 69, p. 263-273 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Embodied, Situated, and Co-Constructed: Young Sexual Minority Men’s Experiences of Intersectional Identity and Minority Stress
McConnell, E. A., Tull, P. & Birkett, M., Nov 2021, In: Sex Roles. 85, 9-10, p. 606-624 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
5 Scopus citations