Philippe Bourgois

About

Philippe Bourgois is a professor known for his research on drug use, violence, and social inequality. His work often focuses on the lives of injection drug users, exploring the intersections of public health, social science, and anthropology. Bourgois has conducted extensive fieldwork in various urban settings, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Tijuana, Mexico.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Medicine
• Geography
• Medical emergency
• Computer Security
• Internal medicine
• Emergency medicine
• Computer Science
• Law

Selected publications

• Racial/Ethnic, Social, and Geographic Trends in Overdose-Associated Cardiac Arrests Observed by US Emergency Medical Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  JAMA Psychiatry · 2021 · 77 citations

  Importance: Provisional records from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through July 2020 indicate that overdose deaths spiked during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet more recent trends are not available, and the data are not disaggregated by month of occurrence, race/ethnicity, or other social categories. In contrast, data from emergency medical services (EMS) provide a source of information nearly in real time that may be useful for rapid and more granular su…

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• Intersectional structural vulnerability to abusive policing among people who inject drugs: A mixed methods assessment in California's central valley

  International Journal of Drug Policy · 2020 · 77 citations

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• The emerging fentanyl–xylazine syndemic in the USA: challenges and future directions

  The Lancet · 2023-08-24 · 40 citations

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• Deported, homeless, and into the canal: Environmental structural violence in the binational Tijuana River

  Social Science & Medicine · 2022-05-18 · 40 citations

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  INTRODUCTION: The US deports more Mexicans to Tijuana than any other borderland city. Returning involuntarily as members of a stigmatized underclass, many find themselves homeless and de-facto stateless. Subject to routinized police victimization, many take refuge in the Tijuana River Canal (El Bordo). Previous reports suggest Tijuana River water may be contaminated but prior studies have not accessed the health effects or contamination of the water closest to the river residents. METHODS: A bin…

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• The introduction of fentanyl on the US–Mexico border: An ethnographic account triangulated with drug checking data from Tijuana

  International Journal of Drug Policy · 2022 · 39 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01DA010164

  NIH · $5.8M · 2017

Frequent coauthors

• Robert Borofsky

  University of California System

  693 shared

• Paul Farmer

  Falmouth University

  610 shared

• Rayna Rapp

  269 shared

• Naomi Schneider

  The Ohio State University

  262 shared

• Catherine Besteman

  132 shared

• Laurence Ralph

  131 shared

• Alex Hinton

  Partners In Health

  113 shared

• Jason De León

  University of California, Los Angeles

  82 shared

Education

• PhD, Anthropology

  Stanford University

  1985

• BA, Social Studies

  Harvard university

  1978

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