Dr. Daniel T. Halperin
Senior Research Scientist, Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project
Lecturer on International Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Selected presentations by Daniel T. Halperin
Selected publications by Daniel T. Halperin
Harvard School of Public Health faculty profile
Prior to joining the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Halperin served for over five years as the Senior HIV Prevention and Behavior Change Advisor at the US Agency for International Development. Dr. Halperin has conducted epidemiological and ethnographic research for over thirty years on a number of health and sociocultural issues in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions. Since completing his doctoral training in cultural/medical anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, his work has mainly focused on the heterosexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. He has had extensive involvement in the design, management and evaluation of prevention, care and other HIV-AIDS programs, and continues to be actively engaged in collaborative endeavors with UNAIDS, WHO, CDC, UNICEF, Gates Foundation and other international partners in developing and disseminating policy-setting technical consultations, guidance documents, etc.
Most of Dr. Halperin's research and scientific publications (including in leading journals such as The Lancet, British Medical Journal, AIDS, and Science) have dealt with some of the previously more neglected HIV co-factors, such as concurrent sexual partner networks, lack of male circumcision, "dry sex" practices, alcohol use, and heterosexual anal intercourse. He has conducted field research and consultations over the years in a number of countries, including Brazil, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Peru and in various inner-city U.S. communities, and has an extensive background working with at-risk youth, particularly socially disadvantaged young men.
Selected presentations by Daniel T. Halperin
Evidence-Based Behavior Change HIV Prevention Approaches for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Part 1: Epidemiological Evidence I [1195 KB]
- Part 2: Epidemiological Evidence II [918 KB]
- Part 3: HIV Prevention Evidence [1801 KB]
- Part 4 (coda): 2005/06 Behavior Change Communication Efforts in
Presentation at the Harvard University Program on AIDS (HUPA) Seminar Series, 17 Jan 2007
Selected publications by Daniel T. Halperin
Halperin D. Letter: HIV Prevention. Washington Times, 12 June 2008.
Potts M, Halperin DT, Kirby D, et al. Reassessing HIV prevention. Science 2008; 320: 749-50. [click here to access article]
Daniel T. Halperin and Helen Epstein. Why is HIV prevalence so severe in southern
Edward C. Green, Daniel T. Halperin, Vinand Nantulya, and Janice A. Hogle. Uganda’s HIV Prevention Success: The Role of Sexual Behavior Change and the National Response. AIDS and Behavior 2006; Volume 10, Number 4: 347-350.
Shelton JD, Halperin DT, Wilson D. Has global HIV incidence peaked? Lancet 2006; 367: 1120-1122.
Halperin DT, Steiner M, Cassell M, Green EC, Hearst N, Kirby D, Gayle H, Cates W, et al. [149 signers in total]. The time has come for common ground on preventing sexual transmission of HIV. The Lancet 2004; 364: 1913-15.
Daniel Halperin. Putting a Plague in Perspective. The New York Times, 1/1/08.
Daniel Halperin. AIDS Prevention: What Works? The Washington Post, 10/22/07.
Michael M. Cassell, Daniel T. Halperin, James D. Shelton and David Stanton. Risk compensation: the Achilles' heel of innovations in HIV prevention? British Medical Journal 2006; 332; 605-607.
Daniel T. Halperin. The controversy over fear arousal in AIDS prevention and lessons from
Jeffrey D. Klausner, Richard G. Wamai, Kasonde Bowa, Kawango Agot, Jesse Kagimba & Daniel T. Halperin. Is male circumcision as good as the HIV vaccine we've been looking for? (editorial). Future Medicine 2008; 2(1): 1-7.
Stover J, Fuchs N, Halperin D, Gibbons A, Gillespie D. Costs and Benefits of Providing Family Planning Services at PMTCT and VCT Sites. USAID, Office of HIV-AIDS Issues Brief, 2003.