Rate My Professor Susan Sherman

Sherman serves as Co-director of the Baltimore HIV Collaboratory and a member of the Executive Leadership Committee of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research. She is the founder of SPARC Women’s Center, a harm reduction drop-in center in Baltimore offering safer sex and drug supplies, opioid maintenance therapy, health care, legal services, case management, showers, laundry, clothing, and food pantry services to sex workers. As Board Chair of the National Harm Reduction Coalition and Co-lead of the Addiction and Overdose Workgroup for the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, she participates in Baltimore City and state advisory commissions on syringe exchange and overdose prevention initiatives and testifies regularly before the Maryland legislature and Congress using evidence to advocate for humane drug policies. Her scholarly impact is evident in highly cited publications such as "Burden of HIV among female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis" (2012), "Public health and international drug policy" (2016), "Associations between sex work laws and sex workers’ health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies" (2018), and "Human rights violations against sex workers: burden and effect on HIV" (2015). Awards include the 2011 and 2006 Advising, Mentoring & Teaching Recognitions Awards from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2002 Delta Omega Society membership, and 1997-2000 NIMH Predoctoral Training Grant.