Rodney Perkins, PhD, MPH, RN

Clinical Associate Professor

Office Location: Ramstad Hall - 303

Dr. Perkins is a newly certified nurse-midwife with extensive experience in sexual and reproductive health, including HIV/STI prevention and care for sexual and gender minority populations. His work focuses on developing and implementing evidence-based interventions to improve health outcomes for underserved communities.
His doctoral dissertation was embedded in the Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) clinical trial, where he examined participants’ experiences with DoxyPEP and healthcare providers’ knowledge and perspectives on the use of DoxyPEP for STI prevention. His research identified benefits of biomedical prevention beyond STI and HIV mitigation, including improved quality of life, enhanced sexual pleasure, and better partner communication.

STI & HIV 2023 World Congress, Health provider perspectives of prescribing post-exposure prophylaxis with doxycycline (doxy-PEP) to prevent STIs among men who have sex with men in the United States., Chicago, IL USA
HIV RP4 Virtual, Evaluation of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis to reduce sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men and transgender women living with HIV or using HIV PrEP: the pre-COVID cohort., Virtual

Perkins, R, Fredericksen, Rob J, Christopoulos, K, Beima-Sofie, K Cohen, S, Dombrowski, JC, Dright, A, Gardner, S, A, Kohler, P, Luetkemeyer, A, Pintye, J, Celum, C. (2025). "Sexually Transmitted Diseases." It’s been a very liberating experience: doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) for STI prevention and experiences with sexual pleasure by men who have sex with men (MSM),
Perkins, R, Beima-Sofie, K, Christopoulos, K, Cohen, S, Dombrowski, JC, Dright, A, Gougougui, A, Kohler, P, Luetkemeyer, A, Pintye, J, Celum, C. (2025). "Sexually Transmitted Diseases." Another tool for the sexual health toolkit: U.S. health care provider knowledge and attitudes about doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men,
Fredericksen RJ, Perkins R, Brown CE, Cannon C, Lopez C, Cohee A, Dombrowski JC, Cohen S, Malinski C, Powell M, Luetkemeyer AF, Celum C, Christopoulos K. (2024). "AIDS Patient Care STDS." Doxycycline as Postsexual Exposure Prophylaxis: Use, Acceptability, and Associated Sexual Health Behaviors Among a Multi-Site Sample of Clinical Trial Participants,