Kelly Knight, PhD

Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
[email protected]
+1 415 867-8405

Research Interests: The social construction and experience of addiction; Co-morbidity (HIV, substance abuse, mental illness), homelessness, and US urban health; Chronic non-cancer pain, clinical uncertainty, and scientific evidence; Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bi-polar disorder, and the US welfare state; Gender, reproduction, motherhood and citizenship.

Publications: 

Withdrawal during outpatient low dose buprenorphine initiation in people who use fentanyl: a retrospective cohort study.

Harm reduction journal

Jones BLH, Geier M, Neuhaus J, Coffin PO, Snyder HR, Soran CS, Knight KR, Suen LW

Radical hospitality: Innovative programming to build community and meet the needs of people who use drugs at a government-sanctioned overdose prevention site in San Francisco, California.

The International journal on drug policy

Wenger LD, Morris T, Knight KR, Megerian CE, Davidson PJ, Suen LW, Majano V, Lambdin BH, Kral AH

Prenatal Opioid Use Disorder Treatment-the Importance of Shared Decision-Making.

JAMA internal medicine

Nguemeni Tiako MJ, Knight KR, Schiff DM

Patient and Staff Perspectives on the Impacts and Challenges of Hospital-Based Harm Reduction.

JAMA network open

Fraimow-Wong L, Martín M, Thomas L, Giuliano R, Nguyen OK, Knight K, Suen LW

Using alone at home: What's missing in housing-based responses to the overdose crisis?

Harm reduction journal

Fleming T, Boyd J, Chayama KL, Knight KR, McNeil R

"Get in and get out, get on with life": Patient and provider perspectives on methadone van implementation for opioid use disorder treatment.

The International journal on drug policy

Suen LW, Steiger S, Shapiro B, Castellanos S, Joshi N, Lambdin BH, Knight KR

Rethinking urban-rural designations in public health surveillance of the overdose crisis and crafting an agenda for future monitoring.

The International journal on drug policy

Textor L, Friedman J, Bourgois P, Aronowitz S, Simon C, Jauffret-Roustide M, Namirembe S, Brothers S, McNeil R, Knight KR, Hansen H

Saving lives in our homes: Qualitative evaluation of a tenant overdose response program in supportive, single-room occupancy (SRO) housing.

The International journal on drug policy

Olding M, Joshi N, Castellanos S, Valadao E, Hall L, Guzman L, Knight K

Telehealth for management of chronic non-cancer pain and opioid use disorder in safety net primary care.

BMC health services research

Cooke A, Castellanos S, Enriquez C, Olsen P, Miaskowski C, Kushel M, Knight KR

Substance use policy and practice in the COVID-19 pandemic: Learning from early pandemic responses through internationally comparative field data.

Global public health

Aronowitz SV, Carroll JJ, Hansen H, Jauffret-Roustide M, Parker CM, Suhail-Sindhu S, Albizu-Garcia C, Alegria M, Arrendondo J, Baldacchino A, Bluthental R, Bourgois P, Burraway J, Chen JS, Ekhtiari H, Elkhoy H, Farhoudian A, Friedman J, Jordan A, Kato L, Knight K, Martinez C, McNeil R, Murray H, Namirembe S, Radfar R, Roe L, Sarang A, Scherz C, Tay Wee Teck J, Textor L, Thi Hai Oanh K

Health Impact of Street Sweeps from the Perspective of Healthcare Providers.

Journal of general internal medicine

Qi D, Abri K, Mukherjee MR, Rosenwohl-Mack A, Khoeur L, Barnard L, Knight KR

Federal and State Regulatory Changes to Methadone Take-Home Doses: Impact of Sociostructural Factors.

American journal of public health

Wyatt JP, Suen LW, Coe WH, Adams ZM, Gandhi M, Batchelor HM, Castellanos S, Joshi N, Satterwhite S, Pérez-Rodríguez R, Rodríguez-Guerra E, Albizu-Garcia CE, Knight KR, Jordan A

Structural Adaptations to Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Take-Home Dosing for Opioid Use Disorder in the Era of COVID-19.

American journal of public health

Suen LW, Coe WH, Wyatt JP, Adams ZM, Gandhi M, Batchelor HM, Castellanos S, Joshi N, Satterwhite S, Pérez-Rodríguez R, Rodríguez-Guerra E, Albizu-Garcia CE, Knight KR, Jordan A

Barriers and Facilitators to Resolving Older Adult Homelessness through Stays with Family: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME Study.

Journal of social distress and the homeless

Cai C, Knight KR, Olsen P, Weeks J, Handley MA, Kushel MB

Ground-Truthing the Experiences of Homeless Older Adults' Recent Stays with Family and Friends: A Case Study of Participatory Data Analysis.

Journal of health care for the poor and underserved

Handley MA, Kushel M, Weeks J, Olsen P, Castillo J, Knight KR

Factors Associated with Pain Treatment Satisfaction Among Patients with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain and Substance Use.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Suen LW, McMahan VM, Rowe C, Bhardwaj S, Knight K, Kushel MB, Santos GM, Coffin P

COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Acceptability Among Homeless-Experienced Adults: Qualitative Data from Two Samples.

Journal of general internal medicine

Knight KR, Duke MR, Carey CA, Pruss G, Garcia CM, Lightfoot M, Imbert E, Kushel M

Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study.

Qualitative social work : QSW : research and practice

Knight KR, Weiser J, Handley MA, Olsen P, Weeks J, Kushel M

Race, pain, and opioids among patients with chronic pain in a safety-net health system.

Drug and alcohol dependence

Haq N, McMahan VM, Torres A, Santos GM, Knight K, Kushel M, Coffin PO

COVID-19: A catalyst for change in telehealth service delivery for opioid use disorder management.

Substance abuse

Mehtani NJ, Ristau JT, Snyder H, Surlyn C, Eveland J, Smith-Bernardin S, Knight KR

Responding to the Opioid Epidemic: Educational Competencies for Pain and Substance Use Disorder from the Medical Schools of the University of California.

Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.)

Servis M, Fishman SM, Wallace MS, Henry SG, Ziedonis D, Ciccarone D, Knight KR, Shoptaw S, Dowling P, Suchard JR, Shah S, Singh N, Cedarquist LC, Alem N, Copenhaver DJ, Westervelt M, Willis BC

Structural competency and global health education.

Global public health

Harvey M, Neff J, Knight KR, Mukherjee JS, Shamasunder S, Le PV, Tittle R, Jain Y, Carrasco H, Bernal-Serrano D, Goronga T, Holmes SM

Beyond a Moment - Reckoning with Our History and Embracing Antiracism in Medicine.

The New England journal of medicine

Paul DW, Knight KR, Campbell A, Aronson L

Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities.

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources

Neff J, Holmes SM, Knight KR, Strong S, Thompson-Lastad A, McGuinness C, Duncan L, Saxena N, Harvey MJ, Langford A, Carey-Simms KL, Minahan SN, Satterwhite S, Ruppel C, Lee S, Walkover L, De Avila J, Lewis B, Matthews J, Nelson N

"We Really Help, Taking Care of Each Other": Older Homeless Adults as Caregivers.

Gerontology & geriatric medicine

Rosenwohl-Mack S, Kushel M, Ramsey C, Handley M, Knight KR

Racial Discrimination in the Life Course of Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: Results from the HOPE HOME Study.

Journal of social distress and the homeless

Paul DW, Knight KR, Olsen P, Weeks J, Yen IH, Kushel MB

Reproductive (In)justice - Two Patients with Avoidable Poor Reproductive Outcomes.

The New England journal of medicine

Knight KR, Duncan LG, Szilvasi M, Premkumar A, Matache M, Jackson A

Vulnerable Patients' Psychosocial Experiences in a Group-Based, Integrative Pain Management Program.

Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)

Bruns EB, Befus D, Wismer B, Knight K, Adler SR, Leonoudakis-Watts K, Thompson-Lastad A, Chao MT

Sources and Impact of Time Pressure on Opioid Management in the Safety-Net.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Satterwhite S, Knight KR, Miaskowski C, Chang JS, Ceasar R, Zamora K, Kushel M

“Reflections on the Intersection of Student Activism and Structural Competency Training in a New Medical School Curriculum”

Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health, edited by Metzl and Hansen.

Donald C; Fernandez F; Hsiang E; Mesina, O; Rosenwohl-Mack S; Medeiros A; Knight KR

“The Structural Competency Working Group: Lessons from Iterative, Interdisciplinary Development of a Structural Competency Training Module”

Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health, edited by Metzl and Hansen.

Neff J; Holmes S; Strong S; Chin G; De Avila J; Dubal S; Duncan L; Halpern J; Harvey M; Knight KR; Lemay E; Lewis B; Matthews J; Nelson N; Satterwhite S; Thompson-Lastad A; Walkover L

Opioid pharmacovigilance: A clinical-social history of the changes in opioid prescribing for patients with co-occurring chronic non-cancer pain and substance use.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Knight KR, Kushel M, Chang JS, Zamora K, Ceasar R, Hurstak E, Miaskowski C

The risks of opioid treatment: Perspectives of primary care practitioners and patients from safety-net clinics.

Substance abuse

Hurstak EE, Kushel M, Chang J, Ceasar R, Zamora K, Miaskowski C, Knight K

Teaching Structure: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Structural Competency Training for Resident Physicians.

Journal of general internal medicine

Neff J, Knight KR, Satterwhite S, Nelson N, Matthews J, Holmes SM

Provider Experiences With the Identification, Management, and Treatment of Co-occurring Chronic Noncancer Pain and Substance Use in the Safety Net.

Substance use & misuse

Chang JS, Kushel M, Miaskowski C, Ceasar R, Zamora K, Hurstak E, Knight KR

addicted.pregnant.poor. Duke University Press

addicted.pregnant.poor. Duke University Press.

Knight, KR

Risk factors for stimulant use among homeless and unstably housed adult women.

Drug and alcohol dependence

Riley ED, Shumway M, Knight KR, Guzman D, Cohen J, Weiser SD

Syndemic vulnerability, sexual and injection risk behaviors, and HIV continuum of care outcomes in HIV-positive injection drug users.

AIDS and behavior

Mizuno Y, Purcell DW, Knowlton AR, Wilkinson JD, Gourevitch MN, Knight KR

Recent violence in a community-based sample of homeless and unstably housed women with high levels of psychiatric comorbidity.

American journal of public health

Riley ED, Cohen J, Knight KR, Decker A, Marson K, Shumway M

A roadmap for adapting an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention: personal cognitive counseling (PCC) for episodic substance-using men who have sex with men.

Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research

Knight KR, Das M, DeMicco E, Raiford JL, Matheson T, Shook A, Antunez E, Santos GM, Dadasovich R, Dilley JW, Colfax GN, Herbst JH

Agents of change: peer mentorship as HIV prevention among HIV-positive injection drug users.

Substance use & misuse

Mackenzie S, Pearson C, Frye V, Gómez CA, Latka MH, Purcell DW, Knowlton AR, Metsch LR, Tobin KE, Valverde EE, Knight KR

San Francisco and the Biomedicalization of Poverty

American Ethnological Society Section. Anthropology News.

Knight, KR

HIV intervention for providers study: a randomized controlled trial of a clinician-delivered HIV risk-reduction intervention for HIV-positive people.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Rose CD, Courtenay-Quirk C, Knight K, Shade SB, Vittinghoff E, Gomez C, Lum PJ, Bacon O, Colfax G

Predictors of sharing injection equipment by HIV-seropositive injection drug users.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Latkin CA, Buchanan AS, Metsch LR, Knight K, Latka MH, Mizuno Y, Knowlton AR, Intervention for Seropositive Injectors--Research Evaluation Team

Predictors of current housing status among HIV-seropositive injection drug users (IDUs): results from a 1-year study.

AIDS and behavior

Mizuno Y, Purcell DW, Zhang J, Knowlton AR, De Varona M, Arnsten JH, Knight KR

Factors associated with antiretroviral therapy adherence and medication errors among HIV-infected injection drug users.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Arnsten JH, Li X, Mizuno Y, Knowlton AR, Gourevitch MN, Handley K, Knight KR, Metsch LR, INSPIRE Study Team

Intimate partner violence perpetration against main female partners among HIV-positive male injection drug users.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Frye V, Latka MH, Wu Y, Valverde EE, Knowlton AR, Knight KR, Arnsten JH, O'Leary A, INSPIRE Study Team

Results from a randomized controlled trial of a peer-mentoring intervention to reduce HIV transmission and increase access to care and adherence to HIV medications among HIV-seropositive injection drug users.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Purcell DW, Latka MH, Metsch LR, Latkin CA, Gómez CA, Mizuno Y, Arnsten JH, Wilkinson JD, Knight KR, Knowlton AR, Santibanez S, Tobin KE, Rose CD, Valverde EE, Gourevitch MN, Eldred L, Borkowf CB, INSPIRE Study Team

Sexual transmission risk behavior reported among behaviorally bisexual HIV-positive injection drug-using men.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Knight KR, Shade SB, Purcell DW, Rose CD, Metsch LR, Latka MH, Latkin CA, Gómez CA, INSPIRE Study Team

Unprotected sexual behavior among heterosexual HIV-positive injection drug using men: associations by partner type and partner serostatus.

Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

Purcell DW, Mizuno Y, Metsch LR, Garfein R, Tobin K, Knight K, Latka MH

Split Ends: Masculinity, sexuality and emotional intimacy among HIV-positive heterosexual men. Men and Masculinities 8:309-320

Split Ends: Masculinity, sexuality and emotional intimacy among HIV-positive heterosexual men. Men and Masculinities 8:309-320.

Missildine, W., Parsons, J.T., Knight, KR

"You cannot do nothing in this damn place": sex and intimacy among couples with an incarcerated male partner.

Journal of sex research

Comfort M, Grinstead O, McCartney K, Bourgois P, Knight K

Sexual risk taking among HIV-positive injection drug users: contexts, characteristics, and implications for prevention.

AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education

Knight KR, Purcell D, Dawson-Rose C, Halkitis PN, Gomez CA, Seropositive Urban Injectors Study Team

The Health Care Experience of HIV Positive Injection Drug Users. Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health, 11(1): 23-30

The Health Care Experience of HIV Positive Injection Drug Users. Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health, 11(1): 23-30.

Dawson Rose, C.S., Shade, S.B., Lum, P.J., Knight, K.R., Purcell, D.P., & Parsons, J.

With a little help from my friends: community affiliation and social support among HIV-positive gay and bisexual men

HIV + sex: The psychological and interpersonal dynamics of HIV-seropositive gay and bisexual men's relationships. Halkitis, P.N., Gomez, C., & Wolitski, R. APA Press

Knight, KR.

The life priorities of HIV-seropositive injection drug users: findings from a community-based sample.

AIDS and behavior

Mizuno Y, Purcell D, Borkowski TM, Knight K, SUDIS Team

Drug users talk about HIV testing: motivating and deterring factors.

AIDS care

Downing M, Knight K, Reiss TH, Vernon K, Mulia N, Ferreboeuf M, Carroll A, Vu C

"I don't know when it might pop up": understanding repeat HIV testing and perceptions of HIV among drug users.

Journal of substance abuse

Vernon KA, Mulia N, Downing M, Knight K, Riess T

Voices from the field: providers discuss HIV counseling and testing programs for drug users.

AIDS & public policy journal

Downing M, Mulia N, Vernon K, Knight K, Ferreboeuf M, Carroll A

This is my story: a descriptive analysis of a peer education HIV/STD risk reduction program for women living in housing developments.

AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education

Downing M, Knight KR, Vernon KA, Seigel S, Ajaniku I, Acosta PS, Thomas L, Porter S

Managing HIV among serodiscordant heterosexual couples: serostatus, stigma and sex.

AIDS care

van der Straten A, Vernon KA, Knight KR, Gómez CA, Padian NS

Defunding the poor: the impact of lost access to subsidized methadone maintenance treatment on women injection drug users. Journal of Drug Issues. 26(4): 923-942

Defunding the poor: the impact of lost access to subsidized methadone maintenance treatment on women injection drug users. Journal of Drug Issues. 26(4): 923-942.

Knight, K.R.; Rosenbaum, M.; Kelley, M.S.; Irwin, J.; Washburn, A.; Wenger, L.

Involuntary verses voluntary detoxification from methadone maintenance treatment: the importance of choice. Addiction Research 3(4): 351-362

Involuntary verses voluntary detoxification from methadone maintenance treatment: the importance of choice. Addiction Research 3(4): 351-362.

Knight, K.R.; Rosenbaum, M.; Irwin, J.; Kelley, M.S.; Wenger, L.; Washburn, A.

Methadone maintenance: treatment as harm reduction, defunding as harm maximization. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 28(3)

Methadone maintenance: treatment as harm reduction, defunding as harm maximization. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 28(3).

Rosenbaum, M.; Washburn, A.; Knight, K.R.; Kelley, M.S.; Irwin, J

Violence: a barrier to methadone maintenance treatment for women injection drug users. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 16(5): 143-164

Violence: a barrier to methadone maintenance treatment for women injection drug users. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 16(5): 143-164.

Kelley, M.S.; Rosenbaum, M.; Knight, K.R.; Irwin, J.; Washburn, A.