Kim M. Blankenship, Ph.D.
Associate Research Professor, Duke University
Consultant, Law, Policy and Ethics Core
Consultant, Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core
Ph: (919) 681-7639 |
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A sociologist, Dr. Blankenship's research and publications have focused on race, class, and gender analyses of law, public policy, and, health. In particular, her health-related research examines the social context of risk-taking among women and drug users and its implications for HIV prevention policy, and analyzes the role of law and public policy in shaping HIV risk and transmission. She has also worked to develop a systematic approach to identifying and assessing structural interventions in public health generally and HIV in particular. Between 1991 and 1997 she conducted fieldwork among and, more recently, life history interviews with female sex workers in New Haven to understand better the factors (especially the social structural and contextual factors) that shape their drug-use and sexual behaviors. She has also been conducting research on the relationships among drug and social welfare policy, incarceration and policing, and race disparities in health. She is currently the PI on a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that involves research and evaluation of community led structural interventions to address HIV risk in sex workers, their clients, and drug users (mobilizing at risk populations to challenge structures of power that put them at risk). She is also the PI on a NIDA funded grant to analyze the impact of the criminal justice system in shaping HIV risk among drug users, and race and gender differences in these impacts. In all of this work, she is interested to understand policy factors associated with changes in health-related social structures, institutions, and processes and their subsequent impact on individual behavior change and disease patterns. Dr. Blankenship has served as the Chair of the Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, on the Editorial Board of Gender & Society, and as a member of the CDC's Concept Mapping Working Group studying structural interventions in HIV.
The following are links to a presentation that Dr. Blankenship gave at UCONN's Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention:
Title: Criminal Justice, Race, and HIV/AIDS
Date: March 1, 2007
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Commercial sex workers,  Criminal justice and HIV, Race disparities in HIV, Social and policy determinants of health, Structural interventions, Substance use and HIV risk, Women and HIV
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National Institute on Drug Abuse |
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U.S. - Connecticut
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National Institute on Drug Abuse |
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Russia, U.S. - Connecticut
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National Institute on Drug Abuse |
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U.S. - Connecticut
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National Institute of Mental Health |
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U.S. - Connecticut
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
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India
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Office of AIDS Research |
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U.S. - Outside of CT.
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Centers for Disease Control |
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U.S. - Connecticut, U.S. - Outside of CT.
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Fogarty International Center/National Institute on Drug Abuse |
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Africa - South Africa
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Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS |
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U.S. - Connecticut
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2009
Dworkin, S., Blankenship, K.
(2009).
Microfinance and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Assessing its Promise and Limitations.
AIDS Behavior, 13(3), 462-469.
2008
Hanck, S.E., Blankenship, K.M., Irwin, K.S., West, B., and Kershaw, T.
(2008).
Assessment of Self-Reported Sexual Behavior and Condom Use Among Female Sex Workers in India: A Polling Box Approach.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 35(5), 489-494.
2007
Blankenship, K.M., and Smoyer, A.B.
(2007).
Prison, Re-Entry, and HIV Prevention.
Focus, 22(4), 5-6.
Ravi, A., Blankenship, K.M., and Altice, F.L.
(2007).
The Association between History of Violence and HIV Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study of HIV-Negative Incarcerated Women in Connecticut.
Women's Health Issues, 17(4), 210-216.
2006
Blankenship, K.M., Friedman, S.R., Dworkin, S., and Mantell, J.E.
(2006).
Structural Interventions: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities for Research.
Journal of Urban Health, 83(1), 59-72.
2005
Blankenship, K.M., Smoyer, A.B., Bray, S.J., and Mattocks, K.
(2005).
Black White Disparities in HIV/AIDS: The Role of Drug Policy and the Corrections System.
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 16(4), 140-156.
Altice, F.L., Marinovich A., Khoshnood K., Blankenship K.M., Springer S.A., and Selwyn P.A.
(2005).
Correlates of HIV Infection among Incarcerated Women: Implications for Improving Detection of HIV Infection.
Journal of Urban Health, 82(2), 312-326.
2004
Burris, S., Blankenship, K.M., Donoghoe, M., Sherman, S., Vernick, J.S., Case, P., Lazzarini, Z. and Koester, S.
(2004).
Addressing the "Risk Environment" for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop.
Milbank Quarterly, 82(1), 125-56.
2002
Blankenship, K.M. and Koester, S.
(2002).
Criminal Law, Policing Policy, and HIV Risk in Female Street Sex Workers and Injection Drug Users.
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30(4), 548-59.
Heimer, R., Bray, S., Burris, S., Khoshnood, K. and Blankenship, K.M.
(2002).
Structural Interventions to Improve Opiate Maintenance.
International Journal of Drug Policy, 13(2), 103-111.
Pollock, H.A., Khoshnood, K., Blankenship, K.M. and Altice, F.L.
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The Impact of Needle Exchange-Based Health Services on Emergency Department Use.
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 17(5), 341-348.
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Blankenship, K.M., Bray, S.J. and Merson, M.H.
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Structural interventions in public health.
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 14(Suppl 1), S11-21.
Khoshnood, K., Blankenship, K.M., Pollack, H.A., Roan, C.T. and Altice, F.L.
(2000).
Syringe Source, Use, and Discard Among Injection-Drug Users in New Haven, Connecticut.
AIDS & Public Policy Journal, 15(3-4), 88-94.
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