Holly Hagan

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Professor Emeritus

Dr. Holly Hagan is Professor Emeritus at the School of Global Public Health. Trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr. Hagan’s work has sought to understand the causes and consequences of substance use disorders. Her research has examined blood-borne and sexually-transmitted infections among people who use drugs. She is an internationally-recognized expert in the etiology, epidemiology, natural history, prevention and treatment of hepatitis C virus infection among PWUD, and in 2014 her work was recognized by the US Department of Health and Human Services with the President’s Award for Leadership in the Control of Viral Hepatitis in the United States. Dr. Hagan served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Prevention and Control of Viral Hepatitis in the United States, and she has been an advisor to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC, and the Canadian Institutes of Health on national programs to detect, diagnose and treat HCV infections. She was recently appointed to the National Academy of Medicine Committee on the Examination of the Integration of Opioid and Infectious Disease Prevention Efforts in Select Programs.

Dr. Hagan is the Director of the NIDA P30 Center for Drug Use and HIV|HCV Research at Global Public Health, which provides research support to investigators throughout NYU and in two other NYC institutions. In 2017, she was selected by NIDA to chair the Executive Steering Committee for the Rural Opioid Initiative funded by NIH, CDC, SAMHSA and the Appalachian Regional Commission. Her research has shifted to examining the impact of the opioid crisis more broadly, to include studying the epidemiology of fatal and non-fatal overdose among PWUD. She was chosen by the American Foundation for AIDS Research to be the Principal Investigator for the New York State Opioid Prevention Center pilot study, which will examine the safety and effectiveness of the Supervised Consumption Sites to be implemented in New York City and in upstate NY.

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

MPH Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

BA Russian Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Publications

Multilevel risk factors for greater HIV infection of black men who have sex with men in New York City

Prescription opioid misuse and its relation to injection drug use and hepatitis C virus infection : Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Retention of participants in medication-assisted programs in low- and middle-income countries : An international systematic review

Spatial Recruitment Bias in Respondent-Driven Sampling : Implications for HIV Prevalence Estimation in Urban Heterosexuals

Syringe access, syringe sharing, and police encounters among people who inject drugs in New York city : A community-level perspective

The staying safe intervention : Training people who inject drugs in strategies to avoid injection-related HCV and HIV infection

Transitions from injecting to non-injecting drug use : Potential protection against HCV infection

Transitions in latent classes of sexual risk behavior among young injection drug users following HIV prevention intervention

Trends in HIV prevalence and risk behavior among men who have sex with men in New York city, 2004-2011

Use of the "nYC Condom" among people who use drugs

30 years on : Selected issues in the prevention of HIV among persons who inject drugs

Determinants of hepatitis C virus treatment completion and efficacy in drug users assessed by meta-analysis

Dual HIV risk : Receptive syringe sharing and unprotected sex among HIV-negative injection drug users in New York City

Epidemiology of HIV and HCV among people who inject drugs in Southeast Asia

Gender disparities in HIV infection among persons who inject drugs in Central Asia : A systematic review and meta-analysis

High coverage needle/syringe programs for people who inject drugs in low and middle income countries : a systematic review.

High HIV prevalence among low-income, black women in New York City with self-reported HIV negative and unknown status

HSV-2 Infection as a Cause of Female/Male and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in HIV Infection

Incidence and prevalence of hepatitis C in prisons and other closed settings : Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis

Peer-education intervention to reduce injection risk behaviors benefits high-risk young injection drug users : A latent transition analysis of the CIDUS 3/DUIT study

Reciprocal sex partner concurrency and stds among heterosexuals at high-risk of HIV infection

Sexual HIV/HSV-2 risk among drug users in new york city : An HIV testing and counseling intervention

The State of US health, 1990-2010 : Burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors

Are females who inject drugs at higher risk for HIV infection than males who inject drugs : An international systematic review of high seroprevalence areas

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010 : A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010