Susan Gail Sherman PhD

Dr. Susan Gail Sherman, MPH, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She focuses on improving the health of marginalized populations, particularly that of drug users and sex workers. She is interested in the structural drivers of health and risk in both the conduct of observational and intervention research. She has over 17 years of experience in developing and evaluating HIV prevention, peer-outreach behavioral and microenterprise interventions in Baltimore, Pakistan, Thailand, and India. She is the Co-Director of the Baltimore HIV Collaboratory and a part of the Executive Leadership Committee of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research. She co-leads the Addiction and Overdose workgroup of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. She is the PI of a study that examines the role of the police on the STI/HIV risk environment of street-based sex workers and includes the first cohort of sex workers in the US. She is also evaluating an innovative pre-booking diversion program for low-level drug offenders. She has a new study that focuses on the effects of a structural level intervention with sex workers in Baltimore, which will create a full-service drop-in center for sex workers in Baltimore. She serves on several Baltimore City and state advisory commissions on syringe exchange and overdose prevention initiatives, as well as the Board Secretary of the National Harm Reduction Coalition.