Suzanne Carlberg-Racich

Education

• PhD  in Public Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
• MSPH Minor in Women’s Studies , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• BS in Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  

Courses Taught

• MPH 501 Introduction to Public Health Concepts & Practice
• MPH 511 Health Behavior Theory / Health Psychology
• MPH 525 Public Health Program Evaluation
• Introduction to Maternal & Child Health
• Public Health & High Risk Behavior – Department of Sociology
• Substance Use & Abuse – Department of Sociology

Research Interests

• HIV/AIDS (Harm Reduction, Cultural Competency, Stigma, Behavior Change
• Harm Reduction (Safer Injection, Overdose Prevention, Service Delivery)
• Qualitative Research Methodology; Program Evaluation
  

Training

• 2016 Fordham-NIH HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute Fellow
  

Selected Publications

• Carlberg-Racich, S. (2016). Harm reduction interventions in HIV care: a qualitative exploration of patient and provider perspectives. PeerJ, 4, e1932. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1932
  
• Carlberg-Racich, S. & Mason, E. (2010). Substance use in pregnancy: The impact of screening and treatment on improving perinatal outcomes and reducing racial and ethnic disparities, in Handler, A., Kennelly, J. & Peacock, N. (Eds.) Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal Outcomes: The Evidence from Population-Based Interventions. http://doi:10.10.07/978-1-4419-1499-6
• Carlberg-Racich, S. & Johnson, B. (2006). Clinical manual for mManagement of the HIV-Infected adult, section 2: Health maintenance and disease prevention – prevention with positives. AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Program National Coordinating Resource Center. Retrieved from www.aidsetc.org
• Sherman, S., Gann, D., Scott, G., Carlberg, S., Bigg, D., & Heimer, R. (2008). A Qualitative study of overdose responses among Chicago IDUs.  Harm Reduction Journal, 5(2). http://doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-5-2
• Maxwell, S., Bigg, D., Stanczkiewicz, K. & Carlberg-Racich, S. (2006). Prescribing Naloxone to actively-injecting heroin users:  A program to reduce heroin overdose deaths. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 25(3): 89–96. http://doi: 10.1300/J069v25n03_11