Dr. Lelutiu-Weinberger joined CHEST in 2009 as a Project Director for the Young Men’s Health Project (YMHP), a randomized clinical trial for men who have sex with men (MSM) and who report recent club drug use. Dr. Lelutiu-Weinberger’s other responsibilities at CHEST are to provide mentorship and supervision to junior staff, as well as co-author publications and develop grants. Her interests lay in the realm of harm reduction and she seeks to develop a line of research that involves participants in the design and implementation of HIV risk-reduction interventions.

Prior to joining CHEST, Dr. Lelutiu-Weinberger was a Research Program Manager at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center in New York City, where she oversaw a project on the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) documenting the rates of cervical, anal and oral HPV in inner-city adolescent girls through repeated measures over two years.  In addition, Dr. Lelutiu-Weinberger spent five years immersed in public health research at the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research of the National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI). Her last position there was Project Director of a NIDA funded meta-analysis on the epidemiology of the Hepatitis C virus and its co-infection with HIV in drug using populations.

As a doctoral student, Corina developed research blending traditions of human development and social theory. Corina’s work at the Graduate Center advocated for change towards alternative pedagogies that can potentially empower students. Her master’s thesis inquired about emerging systems of education in post-communist Romania that fostered student independent thinking in the new “democratic” political climate. In her dissertation, Corina examined the outcomes of student curriculum design and advocated for student official participation in their own education. The students were New York City public school youth of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Her findings were in favor of incorporating a priori youth concepts into formal curriculum, given their importance and critical outlook on adult-created curricula. Consequently, Corina outlined the specifications of an alternative pedagogy of ‘permeability’ that has the potential to foster diversity and more efficient learning.

Selected Publications:

Lelutiu-Weinberger, C., Pouget, E., Des Jarlais, D.C., Cooper, H., Scheinmann, R., Stern, R., Strauss, S., & Hagan, H. (2009). A meta-analysis of the global distribution of Hepatitis C in diverse racial/ethnic drug injector groups. Social Science and Medicine, 68(3), 579-90.

Hagan H , Pouget ER , Des Jarlais DC , & Lelutiu-Weinberger C . (2008). Meta-regression of hepatitis C virus infection in relation to time since onset of illicit drug injection: The influence of time and place. American Journal of Epidemiology, 168 (10), 1099-109.

Stern, R., Hagan, H., Lelutiu-Weinberger, C., Des Jarlais, D. C., Scheinmann, R., Strauss. S., Pouget, E., & Flom, P. (2008). The HCV synthesis project: Scope, methodology, and preliminary results. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 8(62).

Hagan, H., Des Jarlais, D. C., Stern, R., Lelutiu-Weinberger, C., Scheinmann, R., Strauss, S., & Flom, P. L. (2007). HCV Synthesis Project: Preliminary analyses of HCV prevalence in relation to age and duration of injection . International Journal of Drug Policy, 18 (5), 341-351.

Scheinmann, R., Hagan, H., Lelutiu-Weinberger, C., Stern, R., Des Jarlais, D. C., Flom, P. L., & Strauss, S. (2007). Non-injection drug use and hepatitis C virus: A systematic review . Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 89(1), 1-12.

Lelutiu-Weinberger, C. (2007). Transforming formal learning through educational permeability to student knowledge. Dissertation, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

Daiute, C, Stern, R. & Lelutiu-Weinberger, C.T. (2003) Contradictions in a violence prevention curriculum program. Journal of Social Issues, 59(1), 83-101.