Ilene S. Speizer
Ph.D., Research Associate Professor,
Maternal and Child Health
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Ilene S. Speizer, PhD, is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health. She has led research and evaluation studies on family planning, HIV prevention, and adolescent reproductive health programs. Her primary research interests focus on barriers to family planning use, adolescent sexual behaviors, the meaning and measurement of unintended pregnancy, intrahousehold decision-making in diverse settings, and the role of intimate partner violence on reproductive health outcomes. Dr. Speizer is the co-principal investigator and Technical Deputy Director on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation (MLE) for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative project. Speizer and colleagues are designing comprehensive impact evaluations of urban family programs in Uttar Pradesh India, Nigeria, Kenya, and Senegal while at the same time building local capacity to undertake monitoring and evaluation and disseminating findings nationally, regionally, and globally. She has also worked extensively on the MEASURE Evaluation project where she led research and evaluation studies on youth HIV pregnancy risk in Haiti, contraceptive continuation in Honduras, and violence risk and prevention among youth in sub-Saharan Africa.
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