Judith Auerbach, PhD, MA
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I am a sociologist who works at the nexus of science and policy, with a focus on HIV. My research and practice interests focus on the social organization of scientific knowledge, specifically the role and standing of social research; community engagement in research; and attention to women in the HIV response. In my work, I promote integrated approaches, engaging biological, behavioral, and social sciences and community experience.

Awards

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• Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022
• Team Award, National Institutes of Health, 2016
• Feminist Scholar-Activist Award, American Sociological Association, Sex & Gender Section, 2014
• Thomas M. Kelly Leadership Award, Project Inform, 2010
• Career Award for Contributions to the Sociology of HIV/AIDS, Sociologists AIDS Network, 2008
• Research in Action Award, Treatment Action Group, 2006
• Mentor Award, Public Leadership & Education Network, 2005
• Feminist Activist Award, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2004

Education & Training

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• PhD Sociology University of California Berkeley 1986
• MA Sociology University of California Berkeley 1982
• BA Sociology University of California Berkeley 1978

Interests

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• Science and Policy
• Research to Practice
• Women's Health

Publications (43)

Top publication keywords:
Women's HealthTransgender PersonsHIV InfectionsAnti-HIV AgentsTranssexualismAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeSocial ChangePreventive Health ServicesNational Institutes of Health (U.S.)HeterosexualityPost-Exposure ProphylaxisHealth PromotionDisease EradicationHealth ServicesEpidemics

• Occupational post-exposure prophylaxis among healthcare workers: a scoping review of factors affecting optimal utilization.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2024 Auerbach JD, Malone S, Forsyth AD
• Gender(ed) science: How the institutionalization of gender continues to shape the conduct and content of women's health research.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2024 Philbin MM, Everett BG, Auerbach JD
• Social Determinants of Health Documentation in Structured and Unstructured Clinical Data of Patients With Diabetes: Comparative Analysis.
  JMIR medical informatics 2023 Mehta S, Lyles CR, Rubinsky AD, Kemper KE, Auerbach J, Sarkar U, Gottlieb L, Brown Iii W
• Increasing the meaningful involvement of women in HIV cure-related research: a qualitative interview study in the United States.
  HIV research & clinical practice 2023 Dubé K, Barr E, Philbin M, Perez-Brumer A, Minalga B, Peterson B, Averitt D, Picou B, Martel K, Chung C, Mejía M, Cameron M, Graham G, Dee L, Dixon Diallo D, Gordon E, Korolkova A, Dyer T, Auerbach JD…
• Living with COVID-19 and preparing for future pandemics: revisiting lessons from the HIV pandemic.
  The lancet. HIV 2022 Auerbach JD, Forsyth AD, Davey C, Hargreaves JR, Group for lessons from pandemic HIV prevention for the COVID-19 response

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• Willingness of Racially Diverse Young Adults Living with HIV to Participate in HIV Cure Research: A Cross-Sectional Survey in the United States.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2022 Dubé K, Campbell CK, Eskaf S, Sauceda JA, Ndukwe S, Henley L, Persaud D, Deeks SG, Auerbach JD, Saberi P
• "I Would Absolutely Need to Know That My Partner Is Still Going to be Protected": Perceptions of HIV Cure-Related Research Among Diverse HIV Serodifferent Couples in the United States.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2022 Dubé K, Agarwal H, Stockman JK, Auerbach JD, Sauceda JA, Conroy AA, Johnson MO
• "It comes altogether as one:" perceptions of analytical treatment interruptions and partner protections among racial, ethnic, sex and gender diverse HIV serodifferent couples in the United States.
  BMC public health 2022 Campbell DM, Dubé K, Cowlings PD, Dionicio P, Tam RM, Agarwal H, Stockman JK, Auerbach JD, Sauceda JA, Conroy AA, Johnson MO
• Editorial: Critical social and behavioral sciences perspectives on ending the HIV epidemic.
  Current opinion in HIV and AIDS 2022 Auerbach JD, Dubé K
• Implementation Strategies for Creating Inclusive, All-Women HIV Care Environments: Perspectives From Trans and Cis Women.
  Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 2021 Auerbach JD, Moran L, Weber S, Watson C, Keatley J, Sevelius J
• HIV and women in the USA: what we know and where to go from here.
  Lancet (London, England) 2021 Adimora AA, Ramirez C, Poteat T, Archin NM, Averitt D, Auerbach JD, Agwu AL, Currier J, Gandhi M
• Altruism: Scoping review of the literature and future directions for HIV cure-related research.
  Journal of virus eradication 2020 Dubé K, Perry KE, Mathur K, Lo M, Javadi SS, Patel H, Concha-Garcia S, Taylor J, Kaytes A, Dee L, Campbell D, Kanazawa J, Smith D, Gianella S, Auerbach JD, Saberi P, Sauceda JA
• We Are All Women: Barriers and Facilitators to Inclusion of Transgender Women in HIV Treatment and Support Services Designed for Cisgender Women.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2020 Auerbach JD, Moran L, Watson C, Weber S, Keatley J, Sevelius J
• A tale of two cascades: promoting a standardized tool for monitoring progress in HIV prevention.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2020 Auerbach JD, Gerritsen AA, Dallabetta G, Morrison M, Garnett GP
• Strengthening primary HIV prevention: better use of data to improve programmes, develop strategies and evaluate progress.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2020 Hargreaves JR, Auerbach JD, Hensen B, Johnson S, Gregson S
• Three lessons for the COVID-19 response from pandemic HIV.
  The lancet. HIV 2020 Hargreaves J, Davey C, Group for lessons from pandemic HIV prevention for the COVID-19 response
• New Measures for Research on Men Who Have Sex with Men and for At-Risk Heterosexuals: Tools to Study Links Between Structural Interventions or Large-Scale Social Change and HIV Risk Behaviors, Service Use, and Infection.
  AIDS and behavior 2020 Friedman SR, Pouget ER, Sandoval M, Nikolopoulos GK, Mateu-Gelabert P, Rossi D, Auerbach JD
• The Dose Response: Perceptions of People Living with HIV in the United States on Alternatives to Oral Daily Antiretroviral Therapy.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2019 Dubé K, Eskaf S, Evans D, Sauceda J, Saberi P, Brown B, Averitt D, Martel K, Meija M, Campbell D, Barr L, Kanazawa J, Perry K, Patel H, Luter S, Poteat T, Auerbach JD, Wohl DA
• Getting to Zero Begins With Getting to Ten.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2019 Auerbach JD
• Applying the Behavioural and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) Functional Framework to HIV Cure Research.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2019 Dubé K, Auerbach JD, Stirratt MJ, Gaist P
• Cognitive testing of an instrument to evaluate acceptability and use of pre-exposure prophylaxis products among women.
  Applied cognitive psychology 2019 Zissette S, Atujuna M, Tolley EE, Okumu E, Auerbach JD, Hodder SL, Aral SO, Adimora AA
• It is not just about "the trial": the critical role of effective engagement and participatory practices for moving the HIV research field forward.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2018 MacQueen KM, Auerbach JD
• If We Build It, Will They Come? Perceptions of HIV Cure-Related Research by People Living with HIV in Four U.S. Cities: A Qualitative Focus Group Study.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2018 Sylla L, Evans D, Taylor J, Gilbertson A, Palm D, Auerbach JD, Dubé K
• Towards an integrated primary and secondary HIV prevention continuum for the United States: a cyclical process model.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2016 Horn T, Sherwood J, Remien RH, Nash D, Auerbach JD, Treatment Action Group and Foundation for Aids Research HIV Prevention Continuum Working Group
• International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016.
  Nature medicine 2016 Deeks SG, Lewin SR, Ross AL, Ananworanich J, Benkirane M, Cannon P, Chomont N, Douek D, Lifson JD, Lo YR, Kuritzkes D, Margolis D, Mellors J, Persaud D, Tucker JD, Barre-Sinoussi F, International AIDS…
• Towards Multidisciplinary HIV-Cure Research: Integrating Social Science with Biomedical Research.
  Trends in microbiology 2015 Grossman CI, Ross AL, Auerbach JD, Ananworanich J, Dubé K, Tucker JD, Noseda V, Possas C, Rausch DM, International AIDS Society (IAS) ‘Towards an HIV Cure’ initiative
• Beyond "getting drugs into bodies": social science perspectives on pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2015 Auerbach JD, Hoppe TA
• Theoretical Foundations of Research Focused on HIV Prevention Among Substance-Involved Women: A Review of Observational and Intervention Studies.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2015 Auerbach JD, Smith LR
• Knowledge, attitudes, and likelihood of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among US women at risk of acquiring HIV.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2014 Auerbach JD, Kinsky S, Brown G, Charles V
• Focusing National Institutes of Health HIV/AIDS research for maximum population impact.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2014 Walensky RP, Auerbach JD, Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) HIV/AIDS Research Portfolio Review Working Group
• Preventing HIV infection in women.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2013 Adimora AA, Ramirez C, Auerbach JD, Aral SO, Hodder S, Wingood G, El-Sadr W, Bukusi EA, HIV Prevention Trials Network Women at Risk Committee
• Greentree white paper: sexual violence, genitoanal injury, and HIV: priorities for research, policy, and practice.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2012 Klot JF, Auerbach JD, Veronese F, Brown G, Pei A, Wira CR, Hope TJ, M'boup S, Greentree Meeting on Sexual Violence and HIV
• Gender-sensitive reporting in medical research.
  Journal of the International AIDS Society 2012 Heidari S, Abdool Karim Q, Auerbach JD, Buitendijk SE, Cahn P, Curno MJ, Hankins C, Katabira E, Kippax S, Marlink R, Marsh J, Marusic A, Nass HM, Montaner J, Pollitzer E, Ruiz-Cantero MT, Sherr L, Sow…
• Addressing social drivers of HIV/AIDS for the long-term response: conceptual and methodological considerations.
  Global public health 2011 Auerbach JD, Parkhurst JO, Cáceres CF
• Structural interventions for HIV prevention in the United States.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2010 Adimora AA, Auerbach JD
• The iPrEx results: lifting hopes, raising questions.
  BETA : bulletin of experimental treatments for AIDS : a publication of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation 2010 Auerbach JD
• Transforming social structures and environments to help in HIV prevention.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2009 Auerbach J
• Antiretroviral postexposure prophylaxis after sexual, injection-drug use, or other nonoccupational exposure to HIV in the United States: recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports 2005 Smith DK, Grohskopf LA, Black RJ, Auerbach JD, Veronese F, Struble KA, Cheever L, Johnson M, Paxton LA, Onorato IM, Greenberg AE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Principles of positive prevention.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2004 Auerbach JD
• The experts speak. Public policy issues in HIV/AIDS. Interview by Vicki Glaser.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2004 Auerbach JD
• HIV/AIDS and aging: interventions for older adults.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2003 Auerbach JD
• Confronting the HIV pandemic.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 1999 Nathanson N, Auerbach JD
• Women's health research: public policy and sociology.
  Journal of health and social behavior 1995 Auerbach JD, Figert AE