Susan M. Kiene, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
2001 B.S., Exercise Science, University of Nebraska
2006 M.A., Social Psychology, University of Connecticut
2007 Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Connecticut
2012 M.P.H. (expected), Global Health, Harvard School of
Public Health
Brief Chronology of Professional Career
Before joining the University of Connecticut School of
Medicine faculty Dr. Kiene was an Assistant Professor of
Medicine and Community Health (Research) at Brown University
from 2007-2011, where she remains an adjunct faculty member
in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Her
work in the community includes being a member of the Rhode
Island Community Planning Group for HIV Prevention since
2008.
Dr. Kiene teaches the Social and Behavioral Foundations of
Public Health course in the MPH curriculum and teaches
modules in the Human Behavior and Health course in the
Medical and Dental School curriculum. She mentors masters,
doctoral, and medical students interested in global public
health and provides opportunities for students to travel to
Uganda to collaborate on ongoing research.
Dr. Kiene has conducted social and behavioral science
research on HIV/AIDS prevention in the U.S., Uganda, South
Africa, and Puerto Rico. She has two general programs of
research. The first concerns investigating the dynamics of
health risk behavior and maintenance of safer behavior to
understand the situational, interpersonal, and individual
difference factors that influence risk behavior. The second
program of research focuses on developing and evaluating
theory-based, tailored interventions to reduce risk
behavior.
Dr. Kiene's research program in rural Uganda (the Salawo
Collaboration) aims to develop effective and sustainable
methods in the public health sector to empower individuals
to change their behavior to protect themselves from HIV or
to prevent transmitting HIV to uninfected others.
Her research interests include: HIV prevention,
alcohol-involved HIV-sexual risk behavior, family planning
and contraception, intimate partner violence as it relates
to health behaviors, health behavior change and maintenance,
daily diary/daily process methodology, measurement of sexual
risk behavior, and concordance of self-reports with
biological measures.
Alcohol and HIV-Risk among Fishermen and Commercial Sex Workers in Uganda.
(sub-component PI) P01 AA019072, 09/1/11-08/31/13
Client-Centered Counseling during Routine/Opt-Out HIV-Testing in Uganda. (PI)
K01 MH083536, 05/01/08-04/30/13.
Kiene, S. M., Christie, S., Cornman,
D. H., Fisher, W. A., Shuper, P. A., Pillay, S., Friedland,
G. H., & Fisher, J. D. (2006). Sexual risk behavior among
HIV-positive individuals in clinical care in KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa. AIDS, 20, 1781-1784.
Cornman, D. H., Kiene, S. M., Christie, S.,
Fisher, W. A., Shuper, P. A., Pillay, S., Friedland, G. H.,
Thomas, C. M., Lodge, L., & Fisher, J. D. (2008).
Clinic-based intervention reduces unprotected sexual
behavior among HIV-infected patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes,
48, 553-560.
Barta, W. D., Portnoy, D., Kiene, S. M.,
Tennen, H., Abu-Hasaballah, K. S., & Ferrer, R. (2008). A
daily process investigation of alcohol-involved unsafe
sexual activity among economically disadvantaged problem
drinkers living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Behavior,
12, 729-740.
Kiene, S. M., Simbayi, L. C., Abrams, A.,
Cloete, A., Tennen, H., & Fisher, J. D. (2008). High rates
of unprotected sex occurring among HIV-positive individuals
in a daily diary study in South Africa: The role of alcohol
use. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes,
49, 219-226.
Kiene, S. M., Barta, W. D., Tennen, H., &
Armeli, S. (2009). Alcohol, helping young adults have sex
with casual partners: Findings from a daily diary study of
alcohol use and sexual behavior. Journal of Adolescent
Health, 44, 73-80.
Stein, M. D., Anderson, B. J., Caviness, C. M., Rosengard,
C., Kiene, S. M., Friedmann, P., & Clarke,
J. G., (2009). Relationship of alcohol use and sexual risk
taking among hazardously drinking incarcerated women: an
event-level analysis. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and
Drugs, 70, 508-515.
Ferrer, R., Amico, K. R., Bryan, A., Kiene, S. M.,
Cornman, D. H., Fisher, J. D., & Fisher, W. A. (2009).
Accuracy of the stages of change algorithm: Sexual risk
reported in the maintenance stage of change. Prevention
Science, 10, 13-21.
Kiene, S. M., Bateganya, M., Wanyenze, R.,
Lule, H., Mayer, K. H. & Stein, M. D. (2009).
Provider-initiated HIV testing in health care settings:
Should it include client-centered counseling? SAHARA:
Journal of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance,
6, 46-50.
Kiene, S. M., Bateganya, M., Wanyenze, R.,
Lule, H., Nantaba, H., & Stein, M. D. (2010). Initial
outcomes of provider-initiated routine HIV-testing and
counseling during outpatient care at a rural Ugandan
hospital: Risky sexual behavior, partner HIV-testing,
disclosure and HIV-care seeking. AIDS Patient Care and
STDs, 24, 117-126.
Barta, W. A., Tennen, H., & Kiene, S. M.
(2010). Alcohol-involved sexual risk behavior among heavy
drinkers living with HIV/AIDS: Negative affect,
self-efficacy, and sexual craving. Psychology of
Addictive Behaviors, 24, 563-570.
Bateganya, M. H., Abdulwadud, O. A., & Kiene, S. M.
(2010). Home-based HIV voluntary counselling and testing
(VCT) for improving uptake of HIV testing (Review).
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010, Issue 7. Art.
No.: CD006493. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006493.pub4
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6325
Farmington, CT 06030-6325
Phone: (860) 679-2927
Fax: (860) 679-5464
Email: kiene@uchc.edu
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