She serves as the Atlanta representative of NIDA's Community Epidemiology Working Group and is a member of the executive committee of the Atlanta/Emory Center for AIDS Research. Currently, she coordinates two NIDA-funded studies; one on multigenerational drug use among women and another project to implement and evaluate a gender-specific HIV risk reduction intervention for African-American women. Dr. Sterk's books are Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine, as published by Temple University Press (Philadelphia), and Tripping and Tricking: Street Prostitution During the AIDS Era, in press at the Social Change Press (New York).