Sabrina Islam, PhD, MS

Postdoctoral Scholar

Medicine

Sabrina Islam, PhD received her doctorate in Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) with a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies from the University of Florida. Prior to joining the CTCRE in August 2022, she completed a training fellowship in prevention science and alcohol research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Islam is interested in qualitative and mixed-methods approaches to studying differential patterns of risk associated with substance use and structural levels of stigma among sexual and gender minority populations. Her most recent published work pivots towards young people who co-use tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol.

Publications:

Classification of patterns of tobacco and cannabis co-use based on temporal proximity: A qualitative study among young adults.

Addictive behaviors

Nguyen N, Islam S, Llanes KD, Koester KA, Ling PM

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Questioning and Transgender, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Gender Questioning Adult Alcohol Use Outcomes Associated with State Alcohol-Related Laws During the Coronavirus Pandemic in the United States.

LGBT health

Wharton MK, Islam S, García-Ramírez G, Treffers R, Thomas S, Lipperman-Kreda S

Assessing and Addressing Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Health: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Brandt EJ, Tobb K, Cambron JC, Ferdinand K, Douglass P, Nguyen PK, Vijayaraghavan K, Islam S, Thamman R, Rahman S, Pendyal A, Sareen N, Yong C, Palaniappan L, Ibebuogu U, Tran A, Bacong AM, Lundberg G, Watson K

Associations of California's Tobacco 21 Minimum Sales Age Law with Tobacco Use among Sexual Minority Adolescents: A Trends Analysis.

Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco

García-Ramírez G, Islam S, Wharton MK, Grube JW

COVID-19 Restrictions and Adolescent Cigarette and E-cigarette Use in California.

American journal of preventive medicine

Wharton MK, Islam S, Abadi MH, Pokhrel P, Lipperman-Kreda S

"I don't know whose mouth has been on this": youth nicotine and cannabis vaping practices in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BMC public health

Islam S, Thompson K, Abadi M, Wharton K, Lipperman-Kreda S

Disentangling the physical, social, and situational contexts of young adolescents' initiation to alcohol use and intoxication: A mixed methods study.

Drug and alcohol dependence

Islam S, Kaner E, Price-Wolf J, Grube JW, Lipperman-Kreda S

Adolescent alcohol initiation: Context of close friendships and the role of trust.

Drug and alcohol dependence

Kaner E, Islam S, Lipperman-Kreda S

Youth tobacco and cannabis use and co-use: Associations with daily exposure to tobacco marketing within activity spaces and by travel patterns.

Addictive behaviors

Lipperman-Kreda S, Islam S, Wharton K, Finan LJ, Kowitt SD

Relationships Between Social Host Policies, Youth Drinking Contexts, and Age.

Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs

Wolf JP, Islam S, García-Ramírez G, Paschall MJ, Lipperman-Kreda S

Perceptions of Psychological Intimate Partner Violence: The Influence of Sexual Minority Stigma and Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence among Bisexual and Lesbian Women.

International journal of environmental research and public health

Islam S

Twitter and Public Health (Part 2): Qualitative Analysis of How Individual Health Professionals Outside Organizations Use Microblogging to Promote and Disseminate Health-Related Information.

JMIR public health and surveillance

Hart M, Stetten N, Islam S, Pizarro K

Twitter and Public Health (Part 1): How Individual Public Health Professionals Use Twitter for Professional Development.

JMIR public health and surveillance

Hart M, Stetten NE, Islam S, Pizarro K

Construct Validity of the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) Among Two Adult Populations: A Rasch Analysis.

JMIR public health and surveillance

Nguyen J, Moorhouse M, Curbow B, Christie J, Walsh-Childers K, Islam S