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Member Information
Dennis Culhane, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Welfare Policy
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Office Phone: 215-349-8705
Office Fax: 215-349-8715
Email: dennis@cmhpsr.upenn.edu
Website(s): http://www.ssw.upenn.edu/home/faculty/culhane/
Education: PhD 1990, Boston College
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Risk Behaviors, Spatial Analysis
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Studying the housing needs of people with HIV/AIDS, their rates of homelessness, and the relationship between their housing status and risk behaviors and treatment compliance.
Summary:
My colleagues and I have been working with local health department officials in New York City and Philadelphia to merge AIDS surveillance databases with administrative data which track public shelter utilization. The resulting integrated data can then be used to look at the co-occurrence of AIDS and homelessness, trends in the rate of co-occurrence over time, risk factors associated with having AIDS among the homeless, and risk factors associated with homelessness among people with AIDS. We have also conducted several consumer surveys of people with HIV/AIDS to assess their housing needs, preferences, cost burdens, living arrangements, etc. Our HIV/AIDS research is part of a larger research agenda regarding homelessness and housing distress and their relationship to health and social behavior.
Representative Publications:
Culhane, JF, Webb, D, et al. & Culhane, DP (2003). The 5-year prevalence of child welfare services involvement among a birth-cohort by housing status. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare .
Metraux, S, Marcus, S, & Culhane, DP (2003). Assessing the impact of the New York / New York supported housing initiative for homeless persons with severe mental illness on public shelter use in New York City . Psychiatric Services .
Culhane, DP, Poulin, SR, Hoyt, L & Metraux S (2003). The impact of welfare reform on public shelter utilization in Philadelphia . Cityscape 6 (2).
Hillier, A & Culhane, DP. (2003). Predicting housing abandonment with Philadelphia 's Neighborhood Information System. Urban Affairs.
Draine, J., Salzer MS, Culhane DP & Hadley TR (2002). Putting social problems among persons with mental illness in perspective: Crime, unemployment and homelessness. Psychiatric Services , 53 (5), 565-572.
Culhane, DP, Metraux, S & Hadley, TR (2002). Public service reductions associated with the placement of homeless people with severe mental illness in supportive housing. Housing Policy Debate , 13 (1), 107-163.
Metraux, Stephen, Dennis P. Culhane, Stacy Raphael, et al. (2001). Assessing homeless population size through the use of emergency and transitional shelter services in 1998: Results from the analysis of administrative data in nine US jurisdictions. Public Health Reports , 116 .
Culhane, D.P., Gollub, E., Kuhn, R. & Shpaner, M. (2001). The co-occurrence of AIDS and homelessness: Results from the integration of administrative data for AIDS surveillance and public shelter utilization in Philadelphia . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55.
Kuno, E, Rothbard, A, Averyt, J & Culhane, DP (2000). Homelessness among persons with severe mental illness in an enhanced coommunity-based mental health system. Psychiatric Services, 51(8) , 1012-1016.
