Farzana Kapadia
Farzana Kapadia
Professor of Epidemiology
Director of Undergraduate Programs
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Professional overview
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Dr. Farzana Kapadia is Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at the NYU School of Global Public Health and at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Population Health. Dr. Kapadia is also affiliated with the Institute of Human Development and Social Change and Population Center at NYU.
Dr. Kapadia has long standing research interests in understanding the social and structural drivers of HIV/STIs as well as sexual and reproductive health outcomes in underserved and marginalized populations. Dr. Kapadia has over 20 years of experience in the design, development, and implementation of observational studies and HIV/STI intervention and prevention trials in underserved and marginalized populations in urban settings, both in the US and in Africa (Ghana and Kenya).
Dr. Kapadia has a passion for teaching and mentoring. She teaches the core Epidemiology for in-coming MPH students and has also taught key epidemiology courses, including Intermediate Epidemiology and Outbreak Epidemiology at GPH as well as an HIV-related course at NYU London. The overarching goal of Dr. Kapadia’s teaching is to train students to become epidemiologists and public health practitioners who are critical and creative thinkers as well as champions and advocates for inclusive solutions to our local and global public health challenges.
In addition to her research and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Kapadia serves as the Deputy Editor for the American Journal of Public Health.
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Education
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BS, Biology and History, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NYMPH, Community Public Health, New York University, New York, NYPhD, Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Honors and awards
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Excellence in Public Health Faculty Award, New York University (2012)Steinhardt Goddard Award (2011)Community Collaborative Award, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development (2009)Elected Member, American College of Epidemiology (2007)
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Areas of research and study
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Behavioral Determinants of HealthBehavioral ScienceEpidemiologyHIV/AIDSReproductive HealthSocial BehaviorsSocial Determinants of HealthSocial epidemiologySubstance Abuse
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Publications
Publications
Associations Between Social Support Network Characteristics and Receipt of Emotional and Material Support Among a Sample of Male Sexual Minority Youths
Failed retrieving data.Examination of spatial polygamy among young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in New York City : The P18 cohort study
Failed retrieving data.Modeling substance use in emerging adult gay, bisexual, and other YMSM across time : The P18 cohort study
Failed retrieving data.Risk factors for adult-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
Failed retrieving data.Individual, psychosocial, and social correlates of unprotected anal intercourse in a new generation of young men who have sex with men in New York City
Failed retrieving data.Sexual health screening among racially/ethnically diverse young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men
Failed retrieving data.Social support network characteristics and sexual risk taking among a racially/ethnically diverse sample of young, urban men who have sex with men
Failed retrieving data.The health of sexual minorities : a new frontier.
Failed retrieving data.Health and wellness across the life span.
Failed retrieving data.Perceived peer safer sex norms and sexual risk behaviors among substance-using latino adolescents
Failed retrieving data.Associations Between Perceived Partner Support and Relationship Dynamics With Timing of Pregnancy Termination
Failed retrieving data.Lifting boatswithout closing gaps : Child health outcomes in distressed us cities from 1992-2002
Failed retrieving data.Longitudinal determinants of consistent condom use by partner type among young injection drug users : The role of personal and partner characteristics
Failed retrieving data.Predictors and effects of alcohol use on liver function among young HCV-infected injection drug users in a behavioral intervention
Failed retrieving data.Scarcity amidst abundance : challenges for public health.
Failed retrieving data.Resolving conflict
Failed retrieving data.A randomized intervention trial to reduce the lending of used injection equipment among injection drug users infected with hepatitis C
Failed retrieving data.Impact of drug abuse treatment modalities on adherence to ART/HAART among a cohort of HIV seropositive women
Failed retrieving data.The female condom : Effectiveness and convenience, not "female control," valued by U.S. urban adolescents
Failed retrieving data.A peer-education intervention to reduce injection risk behaviors for HIV and hepatitis C virus infection in young injection drug users
Failed retrieving data.Closing the gaps
Failed retrieving data.Correlates of consistent condom use with main partners by partnership patterns among young adult male injection drug users from five US cities
Failed retrieving data.Design and feasibility of a randomized behavioral intervention to reduce distributive injection risk and improve health-care access among hepatitis C virus positive injection drug users : The Study to Reduce Intravenous Exposures (STRIVE)
Failed retrieving data.Housing status and associated differences in HIV risk behaviors among young injection drug users (IDUs)
Failed retrieving data.Illicit drug use, depression and their association with highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-positive women
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