Dr. Sweet received her MPH and PhD from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, in Molecular Epidemiology. Her work prior to joining the Drexel School of Public Health was primarily in virology, molecular biology, and cancer biology. Since arriving at Drexel, she has been involved in epidemiologic studies involving HIV risk in sexual minorities. She has conducted analyses to identify increased rates of adverse mental health conditions among MSM who have been sexually abused as children—and linking these mediators to incident HIV infection or other STIs in MSM study participants.
Dr. Sweet has experience teaching epidemiology, biology, virology and pathology at all levels. She currently teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate programs and is involved in expanding the school’s undergraduate courses.
Articles co-authored by Dr. Sweet have appeared in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cell Death & Differentiation, Journal of Cellular Physiology, and other publications.