Dr. Eric Roth
About Eric
Dr Eric Roth is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria.
For over 20 years, he worked in small communities in northern Kenya, where he studied demography, maternal/child health, childhood growth, economic recovery from drought and sexual behaviour for formerly nomadic Rendille and Ariaal pastoralists.
Eric's current projects include longitudinal studies of sexual behaviour and substance use for gay and bisexual men in Vancouver, substance use and adherence to highly active anti-retroviral treatment among HIV+ Canadian women, and substance use patterns in relationship to gay men’s group sex events.
Projects
- Applying the concept of positive deviance to gay men’s group sex events
- Boys' and men's health (Advancing research to improve boys' and men's health)
- Canadian HIV women and reproductive health cohort study: A Canadian observational cohort (CANOC) affiliated study
- Effects of HAART expansion on community levels of HIV viral load and HIV risk behaviours among MSM in British Columbia
- HAART optimism, drug use and risky sexual behavior among MSM in British Columbia
- Rural MSM/gay men on Vancouver Island
Publications
- A comparison of motivations for use among users of crack cocaine and cocaine powder in a sample of simultaneous cocaine and alcohol users
- A mixed methods approach to delineating and understanding injection practices among clientele of a Victoria, British Columbia needle exchange program
- A reasoned action model of male client involvement in commercial sex work in Kibera, a large informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
- Benefits and constraints of intimate partnerships for HIV positive sex workers in Kibera, Kenya
- Community mapping with gay and bisexual men informs HIV bio-behavioural research using respondent driven sampling
- Event-Level Analysis of Anal Sex Roles and Sex Drug Use Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Family kinship patterns and female sex work in the informal urban settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
- Female sex workers in Africa: Epidemiology: overview, data gaps, ways forward
- Health profiles of clients in substance abuse treatment: A comparison of clients dependent on alcohol or cocaine with those concurrently dependent
- In poor families, mothers' milk is richer for daughters than sons: A test of Trivers–Willard hypothesis in agropastoral settlements in Northern Kenya
- Intergenerational Sex as a Risk Factor for HIV Among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Scoping Review
- Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
- Low serum vitamin A mothers breastfeed daughters more often than sons in drought-ridden northern Kenya: A test of the Trivers-Willard hypothesis
- Partners and clients of female sex workers in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
- Partying Last Weekend: Factors Related to Heavy Episodic Drinking Among People Who Use Recreational Drugs
- Pathways and barriers to condom use among Ariaal Agro-pastoralists of Northern Kenya
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis awareness among gay and other men who have sex with men in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Public Drinking Venues as Risk Environments: Commercial Sex, Alcohol and Violence in a Large Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
- Sexual identity and drug use harm among high-risk, active substance users
- Social–structural factors associated with supportive service use among a cohort of HIV-positive individuals on antiretroviral therapy
- Substance use, sexual behaviour and prevention strategies of Vancouver gay and bisexual men who recently attended group sex events
- Uptake, benefits of and barriers to safer crack use kit (SCUK) distribution programs in Victoria, Canada – a qualitative exploration