Claire Elizabeth Sterk is a Dutch scientist and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Public Health at Emory University.
[1] Sterk held faculty positions in medical anthropology, sociology, and women's health, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory.
She was the first person to identify the risk of HIV infection due to unprotected sex among crack cocaine users.
[2] Sterk is the author of two books—Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine and Tricking and Tripping: Prostitution in the Era of AIDS.
[4] She held the position of president in the Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco section of the American Sociological Association.