John Cox, MD, MSc
Primary Axis:
Health Outcomes
Secondary Axis:
Infection and Immunity
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Research focus on epidemiological research of vulnerable populations; i.e., substance dependant patients and people affected by bloodborne and sexually transmitted infections.
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Public health and preventive medicine, epidemiology, quantitative methods, addiction, HIV, HCV, HIV-HCV co-infection, men who have sex with men, injection drug use, prevention and care interventions
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Montreal Department of Public Health Publications:
Cox J, Graves, Marks L, et al. Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors associated with the provision of hepatitis C care by Canadian family physicians. 18(7):e332-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2893.2010.01426.x. Journal of Viral Hepatitis Jul 2011
Adrien A, Cox J, Leclerc P, Boivin JF, Archibald C, , Boulos D, Jean-Gilles J, Joseph G, Tremblay C. Behavioral Risks for HIV Infection Among Quebec Residents of Haitian Origin. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 12(6):894-899; 2010
Klein M, Saeed S, Yang H, Cohen J, Conway B, Cooper C, Côté P, Cox J, Gill J, Haase D, Haider S, Harris M, Montaner J, Pick N, Rachlis A, Rouleau D, Sandre R, Tyndall, Walmsley S. Cohort Profile: The Canadian HIV-Hepatitis C Cohort Study (CCC; CTN222 Study). Int J of Epid. 39 (5):1162-1169; 2010
Lambert G, Cox J, Hottes T, Tremblay et al. Correlates of Unprotected Anal Sex at Last Sexual Episode: Analysis from a Large Second Generation Surveillance Study of Canadian Men who have Sex with Men. AIDS & Behaviour. http://www.springerlink.com/content/d27w722201430886/. E-published 24 December 2009
Cox J, Morissette C, De P, Tremblay C, Allard R, Stephenson R, Graves L, Roy E. Access to sterile injecting equipment is more important than awareness of HCV status for injection risk behaviours among drug users. Substance Use & Misuse; 44(4):548-568; 2009
Cox J, De P, Morissette C, Tremblay C, Stephenson R, Allard R, Roy E, Graves L. Low perceived benefits and self-efficacy are associated with hepatitis C-related risk among injection drug users. Social Science & Medicine; 66(2):211-220; 2008
De P, Roy E, Boivin JF, Cox J, Morissette C. Risk of hepatitis C virus transmission through drug injecting equipment: a systematic review. J Viral Hepatitis 14: 279-292; 2008
De P, Cox J, Boivin J-F, Platt RW, Jolly AM. The importance of social networks in their association to drug equipment sharing among injection drug users: a review. Addiction 102:1730-1739; 2007
