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Associate Professor
Dept. of Community Health and Prevention
Phone: 215.762.4573
Email: sel59@drexel.edu |
Dr. Stephen E. Lankenau is a sociologist who combines public health concerns and ethnographic methods to the study of high-risk youth, out- of-treatment drug users, homelessness, and HIV/AIDS. Currently, he is studying prescription drug misuse among young people in Los Angeles and New York to describe patterns of initiation, risk and protective behaviors, and other unanticipated health consequences. He is also leading an evaluation study of two overdose prevention programs in Los Angeles to determine programs that effectively reduce the risks of fatal drug overdoses. Both studies are funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses that apply qualitative methods to the study of public health issues. Dr. Lankenau received a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and a postdoctoral fellowship funded by NIDA. He has held faculty appointments at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine.
Research Interests: Drug addiction and abuse among youth
:: Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
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