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Sean Reid

Sean
Department of Geography
UC Santa Barbara
Broom Center Affiliation(s)

Graduate Student Fellow

Sean Reid is a PhD Candidate in the Geography Department. Sean's research interests are broadly in Population Geography related to health, social vulnerability, migration, and utilization of novel data sources. His current research is focused on migration, mobility, and density of sexual and gender minorities in the United States and the contextual factors that influence their HIV health outcomes. Sean is also working on projects related to uncertainty quantification for vulnerability indices and digital data sources. Sean received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in Geography with a focus on GIS and Remote Sensing. He received his Master's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara focusing on migration patterns of sexual minorities in the United States.Before beginning his graduate studies, Sean was a research associate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he worked as part of the Population Dynamics Group.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

Clinical and Community-Based HIV/AIDS Research Training (CCRT) Program Fellow, 2022-2024

Population and Social Data Science Incubator Program, Summer 2022 

Research Program on Migration and Health (PIMSA) Dissertation Grant Award. Density, migration, and mobility of Mexican Latino Immigrant MSM in the United States. 2021-2022. PI, $2,000.

sean.reid@geog.ucsb.edu
Education and Health
Population Health and Environment

Publications

Cassels S, Reid SC*. In Press. 
"Relative time and social-spatial determinants of health. In Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health. "
Eds: Marynia Kolak and Imelda Moise.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Zhao, Yuan, Ronak Paul, Reid SC, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Chris Wolfe, Yan Zhang, and Rumi Chunara. 2024. 
"Constructing Social Vulnerability Indexes with Increased Data and Machine Learning Highlight the Importance of Wealth Across Global Contexts. "
textitSocial Indicators Research. doi:10.1007/s11205-024-03386-9
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Dawit, Rahela; Goedel, William C.b; Reid, Sean C.c; Doshi, Jalpa A.d; Nunn, Amy S.e; Chan, Philip A.f; Dean, Lorraine T.a. 2024
"Geographic variations of pre-exposure prophylaxis reversal and abandonment among United States counties. "
AIDS 38(4):p 557-566, March 15, 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003790 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Christa Brelsford, Andrew Jones, Bhartendu Pandey, Pouya Vahmani, Melissa Allen-Dumas, Deeksha Rastogi, Kevin Sparks, Melissa Bukovsky, iryna Dronova, Tianzhen hong, David M. Iwaniec, Michelle E. Newcomer, Sean C. Reid, Zhonghua Zheng. 2024.  
"Cities are Concentrators of Complex, MultiSectoral Interactions within the Human-Earth System. "
Earth’s Future
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Paul, R., Reid, S., Coimbra Vieira, C., Wolfe, C., Zhao, Y., Zhang, Y., & Chunara, R. (2023)
"Methodological improvements in social vulnerability index construction reinforce role of wealth across international contexts (WP-2023-017; 0 ed., p. WP-2023-017)."
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. https://doi.org/10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2023-017 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Cassels, S., Cerezo, A., Reid, S. C., Rivera, D. B., Loustalot, C., & Meltzer, D. (2023)
"Geographic mobility and its impact on sexual health and ongoing HIV transmission among migrant latinx men who have sex with men."
Social Science & Medicine, 320, 115635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115635 
Research Themes:
Sex and Gender, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Reid, S. C., Wang, V., Assaf, R. D., Kaloper, S., Murray, A. T., Shoptaw, S., Gorbach, P., & Cassels, S. (2023)
"Novel Location-Based Survey Using Cognitive Interviews to Assess Geographic Networks and Hotspots of Sex and Drug Use: Implementation and Validation Study."
JMIR Formative Research, 7(1), e45188. https://doi.org/10.2196/45188
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Sex and Gender