Ph.D. Students

Enrique R. Pouget
Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology

enrique.pouget@yale.edu

Enrique Rodriguez Pouget is interested in social and behavioral epidemiology. He has experience in behavioral psychiatric research, and more recently he has conducted research involving drug use and HIV prevention. His proposed dissertation will investigate environmental determinants of behavior related to HIV/sexually transmitted infection (STI) transmission. It is tentatively titled “Male-Female Sex Ratio and Risk for HIV/STI among African-American Women.”

Education

B.A. in Psychology, New York University, 1990

Awards and Honors

National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) Fellowship, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), Yale School of Public Health, 2004 -present
New York University Presidential Scholarship, 1986-1990
Member, New York University Psychology Honors Program, 1989-1990
American Legion Boys New Jersey State Representative 1985

Experience

Senior Research Associate, Institute for Youth at Risk, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), 2002-present
Research Associate, Center for Drug Use and HIV Risk Behavior, NDRI, 2001
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 1993-2001
Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 1990-1993

Selected Publications

McMahon, J.M., Tortu, S., Neaigus, A., Pouget, E.R., and Hamid, R. Contextual Determinants of Condom Use among Female Sex Exchangers in East Harlem, NYC: An Event Analysis. AIDS and Behavior 10:731-741, 2006.

McMahon, J., Pouget, E.R., and Tortu, S. A Guide for Multilevel Modeling of Dyadic Data with Binary Outcomes Using SAS PROC NLMIXED. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 50: 3663-3680, 2006.

Pouget, E.R., Deren, S., Fuller, C., Blaney, S., McMahon, J.M., Kang, S-Y., Tortu, S., Andia, J.F., Des Jarlais, D.C., and Vlahov, D. Receptive Syringe Sharing among Injection Drug Users in Harlem and the Bronx during the New York State Expanded Syringe Access Demonstration Program. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 39: 471-477, 2005.

Tortu, S., McMahon, J.M., Pouget, E.R., and Hamid, R. Sharing of Noninjection Drug-use Implements as a Risk Factor for Hepatitis C. Substance Use and Misuse 39: 211-224, 2004.

Alpert, M., Pouget, E.R., and Silva, R.R. Reflections of Depression in Acoustic Measures of the Patient's Speech. Journal of Affective Disorders 66: 59-69, 2001.

For a further list of Mr. Pouget’s publications, please see PubMed.