Sexuality, Reproduction, Fertility, and Families
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 as well as aspects of relationship quality, barriers to providing, and receiving, contraceptive services, becoming pregnant and formalizing a union, and the social, biological, and cultural factors that influence how sexually transmitted infections spread.
Associated Current and Recently Completed Projects
Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently…
Agricultural intervention for food security and HIV health outcomes in Kenya
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. Food insecurity and poverty contribute to…
Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey
Cebu was originally designed as a study of infant feeding patterns and how feeding decisions within a household interact with various social, economic, and environmental factors to affect health, nutritional, demographic, and economic outcomes. The study later expanded to include outcomes such as birth weight…
Central African International Epidemiological Database to Evaluate AIDS
Led by investigators from the various universities and organizations, CA-IeDEA utilizes implementation science to identify and address high-priority HIV/AIDS research questions and to identify effective strategies for optimizing HIV care outcomes, including timely diagnosis and care enrollment, care retention, ART initiation and viral suppression.
China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)
The China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) is an NIH-funded study of more than 41,000 households followed for over 35 years, capturing dramatic and rapid modernization- and environment-related changes in individual, household and community environments. The CHNS offers high quality, unique and extraordinary, intergenerational data…
