Anastasia Meylakhs
- Senior Lecturer:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management / Department of Management
- Doctoral Student:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies / Department of Sociology
- Research Fellow:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management / International Centre for Health Economics, Management, and Policy
- Anastasia Meylakhs has been at HSE University since 2017.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
MA degree in Sociology (validated by University of Helsinki), Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, the European University at St.Petersburg
University degree in Russian Studies (with honors), Faculty of Russian Language and Literature, Samara State University
Postgraduate Studies
1st year of study
Approved topic of thesis: Russian Cryptomarketplace: It’s Structure, Stability, and Coordination
Academic Supervisor: Krupets, Yana
Student Term / Thesis Papers
- Bachelor
E. Pak «Male and Female Health-related Lifestyles in Russia». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2020
A. Shcherbakova «Blood Donation in Russia: the Self and the Body in the Donation Practices». Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2020
D. Datciuk «Myocardial Infarction and Behavioral Patterns in Relation to Health: Economic Context». St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management, 2019
E. Morozova «Myocardial Infarction and Behavioral Patterns in Relation to Health: Economic Context». St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management, 2019
A. Davitadze «Testing the Russian Labour Market for Heterocentrism in Hiring: Evidence from a Correspondence Study». St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management, 2019
Courses (2019/2020)
- Methodology and Methods for Sociological Research (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3 year, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Business Research Methods" (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 3 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Past Courses
Courses (2018/2019)
Publications11
- Article Meylakhs P., Friedman S. R., Meylakhs A., Mateu-Gelabert P., Ompad D. C., Alisa A., Dmitrieva A. A New Generation of Drug Users in St. Petersburg, Russia? HIV, HCV, and Overdose Risks in a Mixed-Methods Pilot Study of Young Hard Drug Users // AIDS and Behavior. 2019. Vol. 23. No. 12. P. 3350-3365. doi
- Article Aasland A., Kropp S., Meylakhs A. Between Collaboration and Subordination: State and Non-state Actors in Russian Anti-drug Policy // Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 2019. P. 1-15. doi
- Article Mateu-Gelabert P., Guarino H., Quinn K., Meylakhs P., Campos S., Meylakhs A., Berbesi D., Toro-Tobón D., Goodbody E., Ompad D. C., Friedman S. R. Young Drug Users: a Vulnerable Population and an Underutilized Resource in HIV/HCV Prevention. // Current HIV/AIDS Reports. 2018. Vol. 15. No. 4. P. 324-335. doi
- Chapter Aasland A., Meylakhs A. Adjusting the Scope of Interaction Between State and Civil Society: HIV Prevention Among Drug Users., in: Governance in Russian Regions: A Policy Comparison.. Netherlands : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. doi Ch. 3. P. 43 -71. doi
- Chapter Мейлахс А. Ю., Осланд О., Алиева А. В., Александрова Е. А., Мейлахс П. А. «Национальная антинаркотическая политика и ее региональные вариации: «межведомственное взаимодействие», здоровье и непредвиденные результаты в сфере реабилитации ЛУН» // В кн.: Сборник материалов Региональной научной конференции «Реабилитация потребителей наркотиков: между религией и наукой». СПб. : Издательство "Перо", 2017. Гл. 1. С. 10-17.
- Chapter Алиева А. В., Мейлахс А. Ю., Александрова Е. А., Мейлахс П. А., Годлевская М., Медведева Я. Лечение как приговор: реабилитация и здоровье ЛУН, имеющих опыт судимости. // В кн.: Сборник материалов Региональной научной конференции «Реабилитация потребителей наркотиков: между религией и наукой». СПб. : Издательство "Перо", 2017. Гл. 3. С. 127-136.
- Article Kuznetsova A., Meylakhs A., Amirkhanian Y., Kelly J., Yakovlev A., Musatov V., Amirkhanian A. Barriers and Facilitators of HIV Care Engagement: Results of a Qualitative Study in St. Petersburg, Russia. // AIDS and Behavior. 2016. Vol. 10. No. 20. P. 2433-2443. doi
- Article Amirkhanian Y., Kelly J., Takacs J., McAuliffe T., Kuznetsova A., Toth T., Mocsonaki L., DiFranceisco W., Meylakhs A. Effects of a social network HIV/STD prevention intervention for MSM in Russia and Hungary: a randomized controlled trial. // AIDS. 2015. Vol. 29. No. 5. P. 583-593. doi
- Article Meylakhs P., Friedman S. R., Mateu-Gelabert P., Sandoval M., Meylakhs A. Taking care of themselves: how long-term injection drug users avoid HIV and Hepatitis C // Sociology of Health and Illness. 2015. Vol. 37. No. 4. P. 626-641. doi
- Article Kelly J., Amirkhanian Y., Yakovlev A., Musatov V., Meylakhs A, Kuznetsova A., Chaika N. Stigma reduces and social support increases engagement in medical care among persons with HIV infection in St. Petersburg, Russia. // Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2014. Vol. 2. No. 17. P. 19618-19618. doi
- Article Amirkhanian Y., Kelly J., Kuznetsova A., Meylakhs A, Yakovlev A., Musatov V., Chaika N. Using social network methods to reach out-of-care or ART-nonadherent HIV+ injection drug users in Russia: addressing a gap in the treatment cascade. // Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2014. Vol. 17. No. 4 doi
Projects
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2017 |
Patients’ perceptions on medical care and adherence to medication after MI diagnosis in St. Petersburg, Russia (HSE SPb, International Centre for Health Economics, Management, and Policy). |
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2016-17 |
HIV, HCV, STI, OD and other risks associated with hard drug use among young drug users in St. Petersburg, Russia |
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2013-17 |
Social network intervention to engage out-of-care PLH into treatment (Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR), Medical College of Wisconsin). |
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2015-16 |
Expanding employment opportunities for women from particularly vulnerable groups who are subject to stigmatization in Russia and other BRICS countries (OXFAM, НП Е.В.А.) |
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2013-15 |
Network Governance: A tool for Understanding Russian policy-making? (NIBR, Norway). |
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2014 |
Staying Safe in St. Petersburg: how long-term IDUs avoid HIV infection - A Pilot Study (NDRI, USA). |
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2012-14 |
Social Network Intervention to engage out-of-care PLH into treatment network leader training phase / Pilot Trial (Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR), Medical College of Wisconsin) - project assistance, network analysis. |
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2012-13 |
Prevention of HIV infection in high-risk social networks of African American MSM (NIMH, Medical College of Wisconsin) - project assistance, network analysis. |
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2010-12 |
Randomized trial of quality of life improvement among PLH (Fostering an AIDS research and training infrastructure in Russia) (NIMH, ICART, Medical College of Wisconsin) – research assistant. |
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2009-10 |
Advocacy of accessibility and quality of health services in the field of diagnostics and treatment of drug dependence, HIV/AIDS /viral Hepatitis /TB: Patients` Monitoring and Evaluation Project "Simona+" |
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2008-11 |
Safe practices in the personal networks of the long injecting IDU (ICART, Medical College of Wisconsin) |
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2007 |
Women, Drug Use, and Harm Reduction in Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine (IHRD). |
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2006-07 |
Realization of Rights of HIV-Positive Drug Users on Anti-Retroviral Therapy: The Search for Possibilities of Compromise (Ford Foundation). |
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2005 |
Sexual and fertile practices in Russia: freedom and responsibility (St.Petersburg, Beginning of the 21st Century) – collective project (Gender Program of European University at St.Petersburg, Ford Foundation) |
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2005 |
Transformation of Rural Areas in European Post-Socialist Countries (Aleksanteri Institute/Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies) |
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2004-05 |
"Reproductive Practices in Modern Religious Families” in the collective research project “New Ways of Life: Forms of Family Organization and Changing of Domestic Space”, (Finnish Academy of Sciences) |
Employment history
2008 - 2017. Botkin Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Interdisciplinary Center for AIDS Research and Training (ICART), St. Petersburg, Russia (http://www.icartonline.ru).
2005 - 2017. The Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR) (https://cisr.ru).
Presenting a review of the book chapter about the interaction between the state and civil society in HIV prevention among drug users
The study 'Adjusting the Scope of Interaction Between State and Civil Society: HIV Prevention Among Drug Users.' had been conducted by a CHEMP Junior Research Fellow, Anastasia Meilakhs, and her foreign colleague, Aadne Aasland.
Congratulations to our colleagues on the publication in a quarterly peer-reviewed medical review journal ‘Current HIV/AIDS Reports’ (Q1)
In collaboration with foreign colleagues, Peter Meylakhs and Anastasia Meylakhs have presented the results of the study 'Young Drug Users: a Vulnerable Population and an Underutilized Resource in HIV/HCV Prevention'.
