Dr. Schneider is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Chicago.  He also directs the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination and is a Senior Research Scientist at Howard Brown Health.  Dr. Schneider has developed novel and efficacious network interventions tested in randomized controlled trials that have changed public health practice.  He has completed some of the first network analyses of Black men who have sex with men and rural Indian populations. He has also developed the first sociometric network strategy to select peer change agents for HIV prevention interventions.  His creative and paradigm shifting work moves beyond traditional HIV prevention interventions to impact health and behavior at the network level.  Key scholarship areas to date include:

• Pioneering social network characterization within emerging epidemics
• Novel network method development
• Discovered heavy cannabis use as a factor associated with HIV care engagement among Black Sexual and Gender Minorities
• Novel network intervention implementation