Kathryn Risher

Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences

Kathryn Risher

Research Summary

HIV and other infectious disease epidemiology, sexual network STI transmission modeling, HIV care engagement, HIV recency assays

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Most Recent Publications

Individual, partner, and community variables associated with method-specific contraceptive beliefs in urban and rural Kenya

Caila Brander, Kathryn Risher, George Odwe, Yohannes Dibaba Wado, Francis Obare, John Cleland, Kazuyo Machiyama, 2024, Contraception

Effects of ACE inhibitor/ARB therapy and long COVID on kidney disease: a retrospective cohort study using real-world data

Yue Zhang, Djibril M. Ba, Kathryn Risher, Duanping Liao, Leslie J. Parent, Nasrollah Ghahramani, Vernon M. Chinchilli, 2024, CKJ: Clinical Kidney Journal

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Mobile App Use for Meeting Sexual Partners Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men and Young Transgender Women: Cross-Sectional Study

Kathryn Risher, Patrick Janulis, Elizabeth McConnell, Darnell Motley, Pedro Alonso Serrano, Joel D. Jackson, Alonzo Brown, Meghan Williams, Daniel Mendez, Gregory Phillips, Joshua Melville, Michelle Birkett, 2024, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Mpox Knowledge and Vaccine Willingness among a Representative Analysis of Adults in Pennsylvania

Casey Pinto, Kathryn Risher, W Calo Perez, William A. Calo, Jennifer Kraschnewski, Emily Heilbrunn, Catharine I. Paules, 2024, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Treatment With Antiretroviral Therapy Mitigates the High Risk of Mental Health Disorders Associated With HIV Infection in the US Population

Djibril M. Ba, Kathryn A. Risher, Paddy Ssentongo, Yue Zhang, Qi Dai, Guodong Liu, Mamoudou Maiga, Xuehong Zhang, Brehima Diakite, Souleymane dit Papa Coulibaly, Lifang Hou, Douglas L. Leslie, Vernon M. Chinchilli, 2023, Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Substance use and variation in sexual partnership rates among young MSM and young transgender women: Disaggregating between and within-person associations

Patrick Janulis, Samuel M. Jenness, Kathryn Risher, Gregory Phillips, Brian Mustanski, Michelle Birkett, 2023, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Partnership types and coital frequency as predictors of gonorrhea and chlamydia among young MSM and young transgender women

Patrick Janulis, Steven M. Goodreau, Martina Morris, Michelle Birkett, Gregory Phillips, Kathryn Risher, Brian Mustanski, Samuel M. Jenness, 2023, International Journal of STD and AIDS on p. 694-701

Comparison of programmatic data from antenatal clinics with population-based HIV prevalence estimates in the era of universal test and treat in western Kenya

Julie Ambia, Julio E. Romero-Prieto, Daniel Kwaro, Kathryn Risher, Sammy Khagayi, Clara Calvert, David Obor, Malebogo Tlhajoane, Fredrick Odongo, Milly Marston, Emma Slaymaker, Brian Rice, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Georges Reniers, 2023, PLoS One

Spatio-temporal estimates of HIV risk group proportions for adolescent girls and young women across 13 priority countries in sub-Saharan Africa

Adam Howes, Kathryn A. Risher, Van Kính Nguyen, Oliver Stevens, Katherine M. Jia, Timothy M. Wolock, Rachel T. Esra, Lycias Zembe, Ian Wanyeki, Mary Mahy, Clemens Benedikt, Seth R. Flaxman, Jeffrey W. Eaton, 2023, PLOS Global Public Health

Experiences and lessons learned from the real-world implementation of an HIV recent infection testing algorithm in three routine service-delivery settings in Kenya and Zimbabwe

Mariken M. de Wit, Brian Rice, Kathryn Risher, Susie Welty, Wanjiru Waruiru, Sitholubuhle Magutshwa, John Motoku, Daniel Kwaro, Benard Ochieng, Georges Reniers, Frances Cowan, George Rutherford, James R. Hargreaves, Gary Murphy, 2021, BMC Health Services Research

Most-Cited Papers

HIV treatment cascade in MSM, people who inject drugs, and sex workers

Kathryn Risher, Kenneth H. Mayer, Chris Beyrer, 2015, Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS on p. 420-429

Contraception coverage and methods used among women in South Africa: A national household survey

M. F. Chersich, N. Wabiri, K. Risher, O. Shisana, D. Celentano, T. Rehle, M. Evans, H. Rees, 2017, South African Medical Journal on p. 307-314

The Epidemiologic and Economic Impact of Improving HIV Testing, Linkage, and Retention in Care in the United States

Maunank Shah, Kathryn Risher, Stephen A. Berry, David W. Dowdy, 2016, Clinical Infectious Diseases on p. 220-229

Age-disparate sex and HIV risk for young women from 2002 to 2012 in South Africa:

Meredith Evans, Kathryn Risher, Nompumelelo Zungu, Olive Shisana, Sizulu Moyo, David D. Celentano, Brendan Maughan-Brown, Thomas M. Rehle, 2016, Journal of the International AIDS Society

Age patterns of HIV incidence in eastern and southern Africa: a modelling analysis of observational population-based cohort studies

Kathryn A. Risher, Anne Cori, Georges Reniers, Milly Marston, Clara Calvert, Amelia Crampin, Tawanda Dadirai, Albert Dube, Simon Gregson, Kobus Herbst, Tom Lutalo, Louisa Moorhouse, Baltazar Mtenga, Dorean Nabukalu, Robert Newton, Alison J. Price, Malebogo Tlhajoane, Jim Todd, Keith Tomlin, Mark Urassa, Alain Vandormael, Christophe Fraser, Emma Slaymaker, Jeffrey W. Eaton, 2021, The Lancet HIV on p. e429-e439

Does marital status matter in an HIV hyperendemic country? Findings from the 2012 South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey

Olive Shisana, Kathryn Risher, David D. Celentano, Nompumelelo Zungu, Thomas Rehle, Busani Ngcaweni, Meredith G.B. Evans, 2016, AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV on p. 234-241

Challenges in the Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Engagement Along the HIV Care Continuum in the United States: A Systematic Review

Kathryn A. Risher, Sunaina Kapoor, Alice Moji Daramola, Gabriela Paz-Bailey, Jacek Skarbinski, Kate Doyle, Kate Shearer, David Dowdy, Eli Rosenberg, Patrick Sullivan, Maunank Shah, 2017, AIDS and Behavior on p. 2101-2123

Effect of the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy targets for improved HIV care engagement: A modelling study

Maunank Shah, Allison Perry, Kathryn Risher, Sunaina Kapoor, Jeremy Grey, Akshay Sharma, Eli S. Rosenberg, Carlos Del Rio, Patrick Sullivan, David W. Dowdy, 2016, The Lancet HIV on p. e140-e146

Impact of age and sex on CD4+ cell count trajectories following treatment initiation: An analysis of the Tanzanian HIV treatment database

Arianna R. Means, Arianna Means, Kathryn A. Risher, Eva Ujeneza, Innocent Maposa, Joseph Nondi, Steven E. Bellan, 2016, PLoS One on p. 13

Can HIV recent infection surveillance help us better understand where primary prevention efforts should be targeted? Results of three pilots integrating a recent infection testing algorithm into routine programme activities in Kenya and Zimbabwe

Brian D. Rice, Mariken de Wit, Susie Welty, Kathryn Risher, Frances M. Cowan, Gary Murphy, Sungai T. Chabata, Wanjiru Waruiru, Sitholubuhle Magutshwa, John Motoku, Daniel Kwaro, Benard Ochieng, Georges Reniers, George Rutherford, 2020, Journal of the International AIDS Society