Stephen E. Lankenau, PhD

Drexel University, School of Public Health
Community Health and Prevention
1505 Race Street
11th Floor
Philadelphia, PA
USA 19102
Email: lankenau@drexel.edu

Biographical Sketch: Stephen E. Lankenau, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Drexel University’s School of Public Health in the Department of Community Health and Prevention. He combines public health concerns and qualitative methods to the study of high-risk youth, out-of-treatment drug users, homelessness, and HIV/AIDS. Currently, he is studying prescription drug misuse among young people in Los Angeles and New York to describe patterns of initiation, risk and protective behaviors, and other unanticipated health consequences. He is also leading an evaluation study of two overdose prevention programs in Los Angeles to determine programs that effectively reduce the risks of fatal drug overdoses. Both studies are funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Dr. Lankenau received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland and a postdoctoral fellowship funded by NIDA. He has held faculty appointments at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine.

Papers:
4279.0 Prescription opioid injection and HCV among young injection drug users