What factors influence decisions to enter into a sexual relationship, have a child, cohabit, or end a marriage? Critical to understanding population change is understanding sexuality, reproduction, fertility, and family formation and dissolution. CPC faculty fellows study the development of sexuality, gender identity, and sexual orientation across the life course, choices about entering relationships, becoming pregnant and formalizing a union, and the social, biological, and cultural factors that influence how sexually transmitted infections spread.
Associated Projects
Project | Principal Investigator | Description | Tags | Countries |
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Add Health Parent Study: Phase I | Kathleen Mullan Harris | The Add Health Parent Study (2015-2017), gathered social, behavioral, and health survey data in 2015-2017 on a probability sample of the Add Health parents who were originally interviewed in 1995. | Demography, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Race/Gender/Age/SES | United States of America |
Agricultural intervention for food security and HIV health outcomes in Kenya | Harsha Thirumurthy | Despite major advances in care and treatment for those living with HIV, morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) remain unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), largely due to the parallel challenges of poverty and food insecurity. | Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls and young Women to Reduce Sexual Risk in Tanzania: A Qualitative and Behavioral Economics Assessment of the CARE Study | Audrey E. Pettifor | Examining the experiences of adolescent girls and young women who were part of the CARE Study. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | United Republic of Tanzania |
Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey | Linda S. Adair | A longitudinal study following new mothers and their infants over 30+ years of life course development. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Philippines |
China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) | Barry M. Popkin; Penny Gordon-Larsen | CHNS examines how the social and economic development of Chinese society is affecting the health of its population. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | China |
Data for Impact (D4I) | Siân L. Curtis | We strengthen the technical and organizational capacity of local partners to collect, analyze, and use data to support their move to self-reliance. | Data Science, Interventions and Evaluation, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Bangladesh, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe |
Early Life Mortality in the United States | Robert Hummer | This project seeks to better understand early life mortality (ages 0-24) in the United States in the context of substantial racial/ethnic inequality and very rapid socioeconomic and family changes that have occurred in recent decades. | Race/Gender/Age/SES | United States of America |
Ecuador Projects | Stephen J. Walsh; Richard E. Bilsborrow | This program investigates the social, economic, and demographic effects on land use change among colonist and indigenous communities in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Ecuador |
Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Maternal and Newborn Health Intervention in Ethiopia | Kavita Singh | Studying the impact of QI efforts to improve maternal and newborn health. | Interventions and Evaluation | |
From Biological to Social Processes: Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research | Robert Hummer; Allison Aiello | A scientific training program for both predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees which integrates both social and biological/health sciences research approaches for improving the understanding of health and well-being across the life course. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | North Carolina, United States of America |
Full Access, Full Choice: Increasing Youth's Access to Expanded Method Choice | Ilene S. Speizer | The project will help fill gaps in existing global, country, and program-level data and information to support future evidence-informed investments on expanded contraceptive method choice among youth. | Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Impact of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer on Beneficiaries' Vulnerabilities Throughout the Life Cycle | Clare Barrington | Identfying vulnerable sub-groups receiving unconditional cash transfers in Malawi, and identifying ways in which the Social Cash Transfer Programme can enhance its positive effect on their well-being. | Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Malawi |
Improving dialogue and accountability with a youth-led community score card in Western Kenya | Kat Tumlinson | The proposed innovation seeks to improve service delivery by changing the attitude and behavior of public sector healthcare providers when attending to young and unmarried family planning patients. | Interventions and Evaluation | Kenya |
Longer Term Effects of a Natural Disaster on Health and Socio-Economic Status | Elizabeth Frankenberg | This project will collect and analyze data from Sumatra, Indonesia, on how children and prime-age adults are affected by and respond to a large-scale natural disaster, the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, which killed an estimated 160,000. The Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR) is a longitudinal survey of individuals, households, communities, and facilities in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Indonesia |
MEASURE Evaluation | James Thomas | MEASURE Evaluation’s mission is to contribute to better health for people living in low-income countries by assisting governments and health institutions to generate and use information to change what doesn’t work and to scale up what does. | Data Science, Interventions and Evaluation, Multi-level Approaches | Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Eastern Caribbean, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Republic of Moldova, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative | David K. Guilkey | The evaluation component of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (URHI), a multi-country program in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal that aimed to improve the health of the urban poor between 2010 and 2015. | Interventions and Evaluation | India, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal |
Measurement, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) the BMGF Family Planning Country Action Portfolio | Siân L. Curtis | The Urban Reproductive Health Initiative links country-level consortia with evaluation experts on the Measurement, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Project who will identify the most effective country-level approaches, facilitate knowledge sharing, and build a robust evidence base to shape future urban family planning, reproductive health, and integrated maternal and newborn health programs. | Interventions and Evaluation | |
Monitoring Social Change: Health, Reproduction, Aging | Barry M. Popkin | Adding a follow-up survey to collect and analyze biomarker data from participants in the China Health Nutrition Study. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | China |
Multilevel mechanisms of HIV acquisition in young South African women | Audrey E. Pettifor | Identifying social determinants and their pathways of effect that shape HIV risk among young women in sub-Saharan Africa, a population that bears an enormous burden of disease. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | South Africa |
Nang Rong Projects | Stephen J. Walsh; Ronald R. Rindfuss; Barbara Entwisle | A team collected information from more than 50,000 individuals as well as from adminsitrative records, meteorological data, satellite images, and many other sources over a span of 20 years in the Nang Rong district in northeast Thailand. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Thailand |
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health | Kathleen Mullan Harris | The Add Health Wave V Program Project will add new data to the existing longitudinal multilevel social, behavioral, biological, and genetic data to create an unparalleled scientific resource for investigating the developmental origins of health and disease. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | United States of America |
NURHI Sustainability Study. | Ilene S. Speizer | This project examines the sustainability of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation implemented family planning (FP) programs in urban Nigeria. | Nigeria | |
Reducing racial-ethnic disparities in sugar-sweetened beverage intake: the impact of nutrition claims on fruit drink purchases among parents of young children | Lindsey Smith Taillie | This project will inform policies to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) intake among children ages 1-5 years, with a long-term goal of reducing racial-ethnic disparities in childhood obesity. | Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS-HSE) | Barry M. Popkin | The RLMS is a household-based longitudinal survey designed to measure the effects of Russian reforms on the economic well-being of households and individuals. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | Russian Federation |
Service Delivery Factors Influencing Contraceptive Use Dynamics in Developing Countries: A Mixed-Methods and Cross-Disciplinary Approach | Kat Tumlinson | Results of this project will redefine traditional approaches to assessing the quality of family planning service delivery in developing countries and quantify the impact of service quality on contraceptive continuation. | Multi-level Approaches | Kenya |
Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health Across the Life Course | Carolyn Tucker Halpern | Exploring how sexual orientation/gender identity and socioeconomic status intersect and contribute to health and disease across the life course. | Biomarkers, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | United States of America |
Southern Immigrant Academic Adaptation Study (SIAA) | Krista M. Perreira | SIAA is a population-based study examining of the daily acculturation experiences and academic adaptation of Latino youth in a new receiving community. | Longitudinal/Life-Course, Race/Gender/Age/SES | North Carolina, United States of America |
Supporting Evidence-based Policy Making in sub-Saharan Africa through the Transfer Project | Gustavo Angeles | A multi-country cash transfer research initiative to find out if and how cash transfers impact other aspects of people's lives. | Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Transfer Project | Sudhanshu (Ashu) Handa | The Transfer Project is a multi-country cash transfer research initiative. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Understanding and Addressing the Multilevel Influences on Uptake and Adherence to HIV Prevention Strategies among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in SubSaharan Africa | Ilene S. Speizer | We propose a 5-year clustered randomized trial with a factorial design to evaluate the efficacy of a multi-level intervention that addresses stigma in accessing health care; social support and individual-risk behaviors. | Biomarkers, Interventions and Evaluation, Longitudinal/Life-Course, Multi-level Approaches, Race/Gender/Age/SES | |
Understanding the risk profile of young women's male partners in rural South Africa. | Audrey E. Pettifor | Assessing the empirical data on the male partners of young women in sub-Saharan African who are at very high risk of HIV infection. | South Africa |
Associated People
Linda S. Adair
Nutrition
Gustavo Angeles
Maternal and Child Health
Clare Barrington
Health Behavior
Margaret E. Bentley
Nutrition
Richard E. Bilsborrow
Biostatistics
Elizabeth Frankenberg
Sociology and Public Policy
David K. Guilkey
Economics
Carolyn Tucker Halpern
Maternal and Child Health
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Sociology
Angela Parcesepe
Maternal and Child Health
Lisa D. Pearce
Sociology
Krista M. Perreira
Social Medicine
Audrey E. Pettifor
Epidemiology
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Anthropology
Whitney Robinson
Epidemiology
Kavita Singh
Maternal and Child Health
Ilene S. Speizer
Maternal and Child Health
Jessica Su
Sociology
Kat Tumlinson
Maternal and Child Health
Sharon S. Weir
Epidemiology
Katherine Weisshaar
Sociology