In this episode we speak with Bradley Silberzahn on his work on sex workers, police-sex worker interactions, and retention in the SAPPHIRE Study (a hard-to-reach population).
Brad is a doctoral student in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in policing, the criminal justice system, harm reduction, and vulnerable populations, including people who use drugs and people who sell sex. Previously, Brad worked as a Senior Research Program Coordinator at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Brad has been published in journals such as American Journal of Public Health, BMC Public Health, PLOS One, Addictive Behaviors, Journal of Urban Health, and Journal of the International AIDS Society.
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Get in touch with Bradley:
Brad’s University of Texas at Austin Webpage // BradleySilberzahn AT utexas.edu // Twitter
This is the article authored by Brad and his co-authors that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Silberzahn, B. E., Morris, M. B., Riegger, K. E., White, R. H., Tomko, C. A., Park, J. N., … & Sherman, S. G. (2020). Barriers and facilitators to retaining a cohort of street-based cisgender female sex workers recruited in Baltimore, Maryland, USA: results from the SAPPHIRE study. BMC Public Health, 20, 1-12.
To access the article, please click here.
To access more articles on the SAPPHIRE project, check out Brad’s Google Scholar.
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