Sonia Napravnik, PhD
Associate CFAR Core Director, Clinical Core
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Areas of Interest
HIV clinical and epidemiologic research, with a focus on analytic methods in using observational clinical data
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In the news
Hospitalization causes among persons with HIV (PWH) have shifted to non-AIDS conditions, but the complete disease profile of hospitalized PWH has not been well described. To inform hospitalization and readmission prevention efforts, Thibaut Davy-Mendez, PhD, MSPH, Sonia Napravnik, PhD, and Joseph J. Eron, MD, examined non-AIDS disease prevalence among PWH hospitalized in 4 US cohorts and 1 Canadian … Read more Age-related morbidity, including frailty and cardiometabolic disease, has become increasingly prevalent among people living with HIV (PWH), and each frailty characteristic may, independently and synergistically, play a role in cardiometabolic disease. Sonia Napravnik, PhD, conducted a cross-sectional analysis within a longitudinal clinical cohort to evaluate the prevalence of unique frailty clusters and the prevalence ratios … Read more As HIV care improves, people with Aids are now hospitalized more for non-AIDS conditions. Despite this, the complete disease profile of hospitalized people with HIV has not been well described. To inform hospitalization and readmission prevention efforts, researchers with the institute examined non-AIDS disease prevalence among PWH hospitalized in 4 US cohorts and 1 Canadian … Read more Alcohol misuse is a major driver of the HIV epidemic, impacting the spread and treatment of the virus both in the U.S. and globally. Misuse can increase the prevalence of the virus and diminish the health of those living with HIV, by increasing sexual risk behaviors, reducing adherence to antiretroviral therapy and increasing HIV-associated illnesses … Read more
Changes in the Prevalence of Non-AIDS Conditions Among Hospitalized Persons With (HIV) in the United States and Canada, 2008–2018
Cardiometabolic Disease Among Frailty Phenotype Clusters in Adults Aging with HIV
Changes in the Prevalence of Non-AIDS Conditions Among Hospitalized Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the United States and Canada, 2008–2018
Integrating Alcohol Treatment in HIV Care to Reduce Transmission, Improve HIV Outcomes
Education
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Undergraduate
University of Western Ontario
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Undergraduate
University of Toronto
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MPH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill