Reproductive, Perinatal, and Women's Health Track

The academic program track of Reproductive, Perinatal, and Women's Health (RPWH) has a holistic focus on women's and families' needs, both domestically and internationally.  It provides training in research practice and policy relevant to the following:  human reproduction and its control, health problems and care of the newborn, and health problems and services for women of reproductive age.  Nestled within the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, the track enables students to combine an interest in RPWH with a broader knowledge base offered by the interdisciplinary faculty of social science and health backgrounds.

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Primary Faculty

• Donna Strobino - Principal Faculty Coordinator - social demography, mortality and morbidity in the perinatal period, effects of health programs on perinatal health status; adolescent pregnancy, women's health
• Heena Brahmbhatt - reproductive health, HIV, mother-to-child transmission of HIV, placental malaria, children, adolescents, health communication
• Michele Dreyfuss - iron deficiency, anemia, pregnancy, pregnancy and perinatal outcomes, micro nutrient deficiencies, HIV infection
• Ron Gray - epidemiology, STDs, HIV, pregnancy outcomes, contraception, lactation, low birth weight, infant mortality, occupational and reproductive health
• Michelle Hindin - women's health, adolescents, international, household decision-making autonomy and power
• Michael Koenig - determinants and reproduction health consequences of domestic violence
• Wanda Nicholson - health services research, women's health care, perinatal health, epidemiology
• Cynthia Stanton - maternal mortality, safe motherhood, maternal morbidity, perinatal mortality, developing countries, evaluation of safe motherhood programs
• Maria Wawer - sexually transmitted infections, epidemiology, HIV prevention, care and treatment, prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, randomized controlled trials, operations research

 Affiliated Faculty

• Saifuddin Ahmed - reproductive health, reproductive epidemiology, family planning, maternal and child health care, complex population surveys
• Stan Becker - couples and reproductive health, data collection, fertility and child mortality in developing countries
• Janet DiPietro - child development, infant development, fetal development, pregnancy, maternal stress, developmental psychology, behavior and health
• Mark Emerson - family planning, program evaluation, contraceptive choice, adolescent sexual behavior
• Duff Gillespie - health policy, reproductive health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, child survival, equity, abortion, maternal health, research utilization
• Holly Grason - child health policy, women's health policy
• Henry Mosley - population change, health policy, demographic and epidemiological change, developing countries, health transition, disease control priorities, child survival, family planning
• Gbolahan Oni - social determinants of fertility, unmet needs, demands for contraceptives, male reproductive health, sub- Saharan Africa
• Freya Sonenstein - male reproductive behavior, adolescent health
• Amy Tsui - population, fertility, family planning, reproductive health, behavior and health