Research & Interest

Dr. Gorbach is a behavioral epidemiologist whose research focuses on the risk behaviors that expose individuals to sexually transmitted infections including HIV, measurement at the sexual partnership level, and the social context of sexual health. She is an Associate Professor In Residence at UCLA in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and in the Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine and trained at Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and did a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. Current research includes being a Project PI on a U-19 grant entitled the Microbicide Development Program to conduct an epidemiological study of men’s and women’s rectal health and behaviors; on UCLA’s Network for AIDS Research in Los Angeles Project PI of a study on barriers to enrollment in a research registry for microbicides clinical trials; a longitudinal study of behavior change among men recently infected with HIV; and a community based epidemiological study of sexual and drug using networks in Los Angeles. Dr. Gorbach has experience collaborating with clinical epidemiology studies on sexually transmitted infections and reported symptoms as well as on studies of sexual transmission of STIs including HIV. She is the chair of the Behavioral Research Committee of the Microbicide Trials Network and also a member of a Community Prevention Leadership Group of the Adolescent Trials Network. Her international experience includes research in Cambodia, Vietnam, Mali, Ghana, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Peru.

Selected Publications

• Nelson SJ, Manhart LE, Gorbach PM, Martin DH, Stoner BP, Aral SO, Holmes KK.  Measuring sex partner concurrency: it's what's missing that counts. Sex Transm Dis (in press).

• Menza, TW; Colfax, G; Shoptaw, S; Fleming, M; Guzman, R; Klausner, JD; Gorbach, P; Golden, MR.  Interest in a Methamphetamine Intervention Among Men Who Have Sex With Men. Sex Trans Dis 2007, 34 (4):209-214.

• Drumright LN, Little SJ, Strathdee SA, Slymen DJ, Araneta MRG, Malcarne VL, Daar ES, Gorbach PM.  Unprotected anal intercourse and substance use before and after HIV diagnosis among recently HIV infected men who have sex with men.  Sex Transm Dis.  2006, Nov 6. 

• Drumright LN, Little SJ, Strathdee SA, Slymen DJ, Araneta MRG, Malcarne VL, Daar ES, Gorbach PM. Unprotected anal intercourse and substance use among men who have sex with men with recent HIV infection. J Acquir Immune Defic Synd. 2006, Nov 1;43(3):344-350.

• Smith DN, Drumright LN, Frost SDW, Cheng WS, Espitia S, Daar ES, Little SJ, Gorbach PM. Characteristics of Recently HIV-Infected Men Who Use the Internet to Find Male Sex Partners and Sexual Practices with those Partners. J Acquir Immune Defic Synd, 2006, Oct 2.
  Gorbach PM; Sopheab, H, Chhorvann C, Weiss R, Vun MC. Changing Behaviors and Patterns Among Cambodian Sex Workers: 1997-03. J Acquir Immune Defic Synd, 2006, 42(2): 242-247.

• Gorbach PM, Drumright LN, Daar ES, Little SJ. Transmission behaviors of recently HIV infected men who have sex with men. J Acquir Immune Defic Synd, 2006, 42(1): 80-85.

• Menza TW, Colfax G, Shoptaw S, Fleming M, Guzman R, Klausner J, Gorbach P,
  Golden MR. Interest in a methamphetamine intervention among men who have sex with men. Sex Transm Dis, 2006 Aug 10.

• Gorbach PM, Drumright LN, Holmes KK. Discord, Discordance & Concurrency: Comparing Individual and Partnership-Level Analyses of New Partnerships of Young Adults at Risk of STI. Sex Transm Dis, 2005 Jan, 32(1):7-12.

• Gorbach PM, Galea J, Amani B, Shin A, Celum C, Kerndt P, Golden M. Don’t ask, Don’t Tell: Patterns of HIV Disclosure Among HIV Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) with Recent STI Practicing High Risk Behavior In Los Angeles and Seattle. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 December, 80(6):512-517.