Susan Sherman, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology Department of Health, Behavior and Society Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr. Sherman is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology and Department of Health, Behavior, and Society. She is a behavioural scientist and social epidemiologist. Her research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand and address the social context of health, with particular emphasis on issues related to urban health, HIV transmission, and drug use. Dr. Sherman has over a decade of experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating harm reduction HIV prevention, peer-outreach behavioural and micro-enterprise interventions in Baltimore, Pakistan, Thailand, and India. She is the principal investigator of a study examining the effects of a legal change in the drinking age on alcohol use and its relationship to sexual risk behaviours among youth in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Dr. Sherman is also the principal investigator of a study examining the relationship between socioeconomic status and ethnicity with gender norms and sexual risk behaviours among a representative household sample of Baltimore adolescents. She is principal investigator of study examining the effects of a micro-enterprise on HIV risk behaviours among female sex workers in Chennai, India. Dr. Sherman has published numerous peer-reviewed articles focused on a range of sexual and drug risk behaviours as well as interventions targeting both female sex workers and drug users.