Scholars@Duke
Sherryl A. Broverman

Sherryl A. Broverman

Professor of the Practice of Biology
Biology
sbrover@duke.edu
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
Science Dr, 307 B Biological Sciences, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Is social-ecological risk associated with individual HIV risk beliefs and behaviours?: An analysis of Kenyan adolescents' local communities and activity spaces.

Journal Article Global public health · December 2022 The places where adolescents live, learn, and play are thought to influence behaviours and health, but we have limited tools for measuring environmental risk on a hyperlocal (e.g. neighbourhood) level. Working with 218 adolescents and their parents/guardia ... Full text Cite

Dietary Diversity and Dietary Patterns in School-Aged Children in Western Kenya: A Latent Class Analysis.

Journal Article International journal of environmental research and public health · July 2022 Inadequate diet among children has both immediate and long-term negative health impacts, but little is known about dietary diversity and dietary patterns of school-aged children in rural Kenya. We assessed dietary diversity and identified dietary patterns ... Full text Cite

Between a hygiene rock and a hygienic hard place: Avoiding SARS-CoV-2 while needing environmental exposures for immunity.

Journal Article Evol Med Public Health · 2021 Suboptimal understanding of concepts related to hygiene by the general public, clinicians and researchers is a persistent problem in health and medicine. Although hygiene is necessary to slow or prevent deadly pandemics of infectious disease such as corona ... Full text Link to item Cite

Authors' response to Graham Rook's commentary.

Journal Article Evol Med Public Health · 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Using Human-Centered Design to Connect Engineering Concepts to Sustainable Development Goals

Journal Article Advances in Engineering Education · January 1, 2020 Background. Engineering design is widely recognized as a field that can generate key innovations for complex problems, such as those elucidated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, engineering design training is not widely accessible to th ... Full text Cite

A church-based intervention for families to promote mental health and prevent HIV among adolescents in rural Kenya: Results of a randomized trial.

Journal Article Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · June 2016 ObjectiveTo evaluate a family- and church-based intervention for adolescents and caregivers in rural Kenya to improve family relationships, reduce HIV risk, and promote mental health.MethodThe intervention was developed using community-ba ... Full text Cite

Participatory mapping in low-resource settings: Three novel methods used to engage Kenyan youth and other community members in community-based HIV prevention research.

Journal Article Global public health · May 2016 Understanding the link between health and place can strengthen the design of health interventions, particularly in the context of HIV prevention. Individuals who might one day participate in such interventions - including youth - may further improve the de ... Full text Cite

IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOL-BASED HIV PREVENTION CURRICULUM FOLLOWING NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN NYANZA PROVINCE, KENYA.

Journal Article East African medical journal · May 2014 BackgroundPrimary School Action for Better Health (PSABH) became the national HIV prevention curriculum of Kenya in 2005.ObjectiveTo examined implementation of PSABH and student risk behaviour s.SettingMuhuru, a rural division of ... Cite

IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOL-BASED HIV PREVENTION CURRICULUM FOLLOWING NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN NYANZA PROVINCE, KENYA.

Journal Article East African medical journal · May 2014 Primary School Action for Better Health (PSABH) became the national HIV prevention curriculum of Kenya in 2005.To examined implementation of PSABH and student risk behaviour s.Muhuru, a rural division of Nyanza Province.One thousand one hundred and forty s ... Cite

Developing a family-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: challenges in conducting community-based participatory research.

Journal Article Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE · April 2013 Community-Based Participatory research (CBPR) introduces new ethical challenges for HIV prevention studies in low-resource international settings. We describe a CBPR study in rural Kenya to develop and pilot a family-based HIV prevention and mental health ... Full text Cite

Orphan status, HIV risk behavior, and mental health among adolescents in rural Kenya.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric psychology · September 2012 ObjectiveTo examine orphan status, mental health, social support, and HIV risk among adolescents in rural Kenya.MethodsRandomly selected adolescents aged 10-18 years completed surveys assessing sexual activity, sex-related beliefs and sel ... Full text Cite

The protective role of religious coping in adolescents' responses to poverty and sexual decision-making in rural Kenya.

Journal Article Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · March 2012 In this study, we explored how adolescents in rural Kenya apply religious coping in sexual decision-making in the context of high rates of poverty and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 adolescents. One-th ... Full text Open Access Cite

Individual- and family-level psychosocial correlates of HIV risk behavior among youth in rural Kenya.

Journal Article AIDS and behavior · August 2011 Associations between individual- and family-level psychosocial factors and sexual behavior were examined among 325 adolescents ages 10-18 in rural Kenya. History of sexual activity was reported by 51% of males and 30% of females. Among those reporting sex ... Full text Cite

. Implementation of a of a school-based HIV prevention program in rural Kenya after national dissemination

Journal Article East African Medical Journal · 2011 Objective: Primary School Action for Better Health (PSABH) became the national HIV prevention curriculum of Kenya in 2007. This study examined implementation of PSABH and student risk behaviors. Setting: The study was conducted in Muhuru, a rural division ... Cite

AIDS Research: Global Understanding & Engagement

Journal Article This is a curricular model published and disseminated on the website of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement · August 2008 Link to item Cite

Globalizing the Microbiology Curriculum

Journal Article ASM News · 2005 Cite

Fast ion-exchange membrane purification of a microsomal protein.

Journal Article BioTechniques · December 1995 Cite

Meiotic mutants that cause a polar decrease in recombination on the X chromosome in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Journal Article Genetics · January 1994 Recessive mutations in three autosomal genes, him-1, him-5 and him-8, cause high levels of X chromosome nondisjunction in hermaphrodites of Caenorhabditis elegans, with no comparable effect on autosomal disjunction. Each of the mutants has reduced levels o ... Full text Cite

Alteration of Caenorhabditis elegans gene expression by targeted transformation.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · May 1993 We have produced strains carrying a synthetic fusion of parts of two vitellogenin genes, vit-2 and vit-6, integrated into the Caenorhabditis elegans genome. In most of the 63 transformant strains, the plasmid sequences are integrated at random locations in ... Full text Cite

Regulation of vitellogenin gene expression in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans: short sequences required for activation of the vit-2 promoter.

Journal Article Molecular and cellular biology · April 1992 The Caenorhabditis elegans vitellogenin genes are subject to sex-, stage-, and tissue-specific regulation: they are expressed solely in the adult hermaphrodite intestine. Comparative sequence analysis of the DNA immediately upstream of these genes revealed ... Full text Cite

A tripartite interaction among alleles of Notch, Delta, and Enhancer of split during imaginal development of Drosophila melanogaster.

Journal Article Genetics · June 1989 A dramatic example of a phenotypic interaction that involves neurogenic loci during Drosophila imaginal development is the synergistic impact of split (spl), a recessive allele of the Notch locus, and E(spl)D, a dominant gain-of-function allele of the Enha ... Full text Cite

Regulated expression of a vitellogenin fusion gene in transgenic nematodes.

Journal Article Developmental biology · November 1988 In Caenorhabditis elegans the vitellogenin genes are expressed abundantly in the adult hermaphrodite intestine, but are otherwise silent. In order to begin to understand the mechanisms by which this developmental regulation occurs, we used the transformati ... Full text Cite