Carl A. Latkin

TL;DR: Acceptance level and preferences toward mHealth apps as well as specifically preferred functionalities discovered in this study are essential not only in conceptualizing and developing appropriate mobile phone interventions targeting youth and adolescents, but also in the application of technically advanced solutions in disease prevention and health management.

TL;DR: Mobilizing drug-free network family and friends may provide a pathway to help individuals with substance use disorders access and benefit from community support.

TL;DR: Results contribute to the limited number of culturally appropriate models of HIV prevention intervention that are urgently needed for African American men who have sex with men to address their persistently high rates of HIV.

TL;DR: Investigation of the relationship between individual-level and the certain neighborhood characteristics with drug use cessation among a sample of long-term inner-city heroin injectors in Baltimore, Maryland points to the importance of examining specific environmental factors in relation to quitting drug use.

TL;DR: It is found that people are more likely to socially distance when specified activities are framed as high risk, that facemask use during social interaction decreases systematically with greater social relationship, and that describing delay until testing (rather than delay until results) increases testing likelihood.