L Leonard

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Interpreting female genital cutting: moving beyond the impasse
    L Leonard
    Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Room 7142, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Annu Rev Sex Res 11:158-90. 2000
  2. ncbi How physicians test: clinical practice guidelines and HIV screening practices with adolescent patients
    Lori Leonard
    Department of Health, Behavioral and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    AIDS Educ Prev 22:538-45. 2010
  3. ncbi Where there is no state: household strategies for the management of illness in Chad
    Lori Leonard
    Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Soc Sci Med 61:229-43. 2005
  4. ncbi Possible illnesses: assessing the health impacts of the Chad Pipeline Project
    Lori Leonard
    Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Bull World Health Organ 81:427-33. 2003
  5. ncbi "Looking for children": the search for fertility among the Sara of southern Chad
    Lori Leonard
    Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA
    Med Anthropol 21:79-112. 2002
  6. ncbi Poverty and sexual concurrency: a case study of STI risk
    Emma K Tsui
    Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
    J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:758-77. 2008
  7. ncbi The clinic and elsewhere: illness, sexuality, and social experience among young African American men in Baltimore, Maryland
    Todd Meyers
    Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
    Cult Med Psychiatry 28:67-86. 2004
  8. ncbi Persons, Places, and times: the meanings of repetition in an STD clinic
    Lori Leonard
    Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA
    Med Anthropol Q 21:154-68. 2007
  9. ncbi A community level syphilis prevention programme: outcome data from a controlled trial
    M W Ross
    WHO Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas, PO Box 20036, Houston, TX 77225, USA
    Sex Transm Infect 80:100-4. 2004
  10. ncbi Condom use among high-risk adolescents: anticipation of partner disapproval and less pleasure associated with not using condoms
    Larry K Brown
    Rhode Island Hospital, CORO West, Ste 204, 1 Hoppin St, Providence, RI 02903, USA
    Public Health Rep 123:601-7. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Routine HIV Testing Among Adolescents and the Shifting Culture of AIDS
    Lori Leonard; Fiscal Year: 2007

Detail Information

Publications12

  1. ncbi Interpreting female genital cutting: moving beyond the impasse
    L Leonard
    Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Room 7142, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Annu Rev Sex Res 11:158-90. 2000
    ..Strategies for approaching the study of female genital cutting are presented as ways to bring fresh perspectives to the literature and to move discussion of female genital cutting beyond the current impasse...
  2. ncbi How physicians test: clinical practice guidelines and HIV screening practices with adolescent patients
    Lori Leonard
    Department of Health, Behavioral and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    AIDS Educ Prev 22:538-45. 2010
    ..Both physicians and their adolescent patients continue to test based on risk assessments...
  3. ncbi Where there is no state: household strategies for the management of illness in Chad
    Lori Leonard
    Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Soc Sci Med 61:229-43. 2005
    ..Whether and how the experiences of the low-income households described in this paper will be impacted by the public investment of oil revenues in the health sector is the question our longitudinal study is designed to address...
  4. ncbi Possible illnesses: assessing the health impacts of the Chad Pipeline Project
    Lori Leonard
    Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
    Bull World Health Organ 81:427-33. 2003
    ..Rather than providing data on the extent to which harm has been mitigated by corporate, state, and donor activities, self-reports show the possibilities of illness in local contexts...
  5. ncbi "Looking for children": the search for fertility among the Sara of southern Chad
    Lori Leonard
    Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA
    Med Anthropol 21:79-112. 2002
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  6. ncbi Poverty and sexual concurrency: a case study of STI risk
    Emma K Tsui
    Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
    J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:758-77. 2008
    ..The data we present show the limits of this concept, and suggest that structural reforms, including improvements to education, drug treatment, and work opportunities, are necessary to reduce racial disparities in STI rates...
  7. ncbi The clinic and elsewhere: illness, sexuality, and social experience among young African American men in Baltimore, Maryland
    Todd Meyers
    Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
    Cult Med Psychiatry 28:67-86. 2004
    ..The paper signals a number of issues absent in clinical and epidemiological depictions of vulnerability, particularly in the context of the urban United States...
  8. ncbi Persons, Places, and times: the meanings of repetition in an STD clinic
    Lori Leonard
    Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA
    Med Anthropol Q 21:154-68. 2007
    ....
  9. ncbi A community level syphilis prevention programme: outcome data from a controlled trial
    M W Ross
    WHO Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas, PO Box 20036, Houston, TX 77225, USA
    Sex Transm Infect 80:100-4. 2004
    ..This study investigated the impact of a small media campaign to reduce syphilis through testing, treatment, and condom use in two urban predominantly African-American communities with high syphilis rates...
  10. ncbi Condom use among high-risk adolescents: anticipation of partner disapproval and less pleasure associated with not using condoms
    Larry K Brown
    Rhode Island Hospital, CORO West, Ste 204, 1 Hoppin St, Providence, RI 02903, USA
    Public Health Rep 123:601-7. 2008
    ..We determined the association of demographic, psychosocial, and contextual factors with condom use among a large community sample of at-risk adolescents recruited from four locations in the U.S...
  11. ncbi Suicide attempt and sexual risk behavior: relationship among adolescents
    Christopher D Houck
    Bradley Hasbro Children s Research Center and Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA
    Arch Suicide Res 12:39-49. 2008
    ..A history of suicidal behavior can be identified by clinicians and appears to be an important marker for sexual risk, which may represent an expression of emotional distress or a passive form of self-injury for suicidal adolescents...
  12. ncbi HIV and housing assistance in four U.S. cities: variations in local experience
    Alison Scott
    Georgia Southern University, Jiann Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA
    AIDS Behav 11:140-8. 2007
    ..It also highlights the importance of understanding local contexts when designing housing interventions at both the individual and structural levels...

Research Grants2

  1. Routine HIV Testing Among Adolescents and the Shifting Culture of AIDS
    Lori Leonard; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....