B.S. Calvin College 2006
M.S.P.H. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2010
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2013

• 2016-present Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington
• 2013-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Scholarly Interest

Dr. Ludema's research and training have focused on social and structural contributors to sexually transmitted disease outcomes and causal inference methodology. She has been involved in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a large prospective cohort of HIV-infected and -uninfected women in the US since 2013. Her current research interests include women's health, health insurance policy, food insecurity, transportation, and HIV control and comorbidities.

Ludema C, Edmonds A, Cole SR, Eron JJ, Adedimeji AA, Cohen J, Cohen MH, Kassaye S, Konkle-Parker DJ, Metsch LR, Wingood GM, Wilson TE, and Adimora AA. Comparing neighborhood and state contexts for women living with and without HIV: understanding the Southern HIV epidemic. AIDS Care. 2018 Nov; 30(11): 1360-1367.

Richards M, Weigel M, Li M, Rosenberg M, Ludema C. Household Food Insecurity and Antepartum Depression in the National Children’s Study Cohort. Ann Epi. 2020 Apr; 44:38-44.e1.

Ludema C, Wilson CM, Michelle A. Lally MA, Jacob J. van den Berg JJ, and J. Dennis Fortenberry JD. Prior incarceration associated with missed HIV care visits among young people living with HIV in the US. AIDS Care. 2020 Sep; 32(9): 1150-1154.

Yin DE, Ludema C, Cole SR, Golin CE, Miller WC, Warshaw MG, McKinney RE; on behalf of the PENPACT-1 (PENTA 9 / PACTG 390) Study Team. Time to treatment disruption in children with HIV-1 randomized to initial antiretroviral therapy with protease inhibitors versus non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. PLoS One. 2020 Nov 23;15(11):e0242405.

Perry BL, Aronson B, Railey A, and Ludema C. If you build it, will they come? Social, economic, and psychological determinants of COVID-19 testing decisions. PLOS ONE. 2021 Jul 14;16(7):e0252658.

Kianersi S, Ludema C, Macy JT, Chen C, Rosenberg M. Relationship between high-risk alcohol consumption and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seroconversion: a prospective sero-epidemiological cohort study among American college students. Addiction. 2022 July;117(7):1908-1919.

Rosenberg M, Chen C, Golzarri-Arroyo L, Carroll A, Menachemi N, Ludema C. SARS-CoV-2 reinfections in a US university setting, Fall 2020 to Spring 2021. BMC Infectious Diseases. 2022; 22(1): 1-7.