Health Project
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Rebecca Miles
Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning &
Center for Demography and Population Health
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2280
TEL: 850-***-****; FAX: 645-4841
e-mail: abqnlv@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
1988 Ph.D., Development Sociology, Cornell University, New York
Minor: Epidemiology
1983 Master's of Regional Planning, Cornell University, New York
1977 B.A., History of Science, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2009- Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
Present Research Associate, Center for the Study of Demography and Population Health
Research areas include neighborhoods and health; planning, health and public
safety; development and social policy. Teaching responsibilities include courses
in Planning for Healthy Cities & Healthy Communities, Development Planning,
Gender and Development, Research and Evaluation Design, and Planning Theory.
1999 - Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning;
2009 Research Associate, Center for the Study of Demography and Population Health;
1993-99 Assistant Professor, Urban and Regional Planning;
Research Associate, Center for the Study of Demography and
Population Health
1990-93 Research Scientist, Institute for Health and Human Services Research, Florida
State University
1989-90 National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral trainee, Center for the Study of
Population, Florida State University
1988-89 National Institute for Child Health and Development Postdoctoral trainee,
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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EXTERNAL GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
2003 Co-Investigator Housing and Urban Development Department
Empowering residents to increase their level of physical activity for
transportation and health, under the Community Outreach Partnership Centers
Program (COPC) grant (2003-2006) awarded to co-PI s Charles Connerly and
Harrison Higgins, $109,591 of total $399,969
2001 Principal Investigator - Physical Activity and Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 Agreement - $38,626
1996 Fulbright Research Award Recipient - Council for the International Exchange of Scholars
"Changing regional economies: implications for men and women in households in
Jordan and Syria" $ 21,000
1992 Principal Investigator - Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
"How different is the ecological context of violence in families from violence in
the streets?" - $ 69,578
1992 Research Award Recipient - Gerontological Society of America Technical Assistance
Program and Florida HRS/Dept. of Aging and Adult Services,
Assessing the effect of pre-admission screening on transitions into nursing
homes in Florida
1992 Co-Principal Investigator - Emergency Medical Services
Florida Emergency Medical Services (EMS)/HRS grant
Social Context of Injuries $ 20,000 (approx)
1991 Co-Principal Investigator - Emergency Medical Services
Florida EMS/HRS grant,
Rural Injuries Study $21,880
INTERNAL GRANTS
2000 Planning Grant Recipient - Florida State University (FSU) Council for Research
Creativity Local Planning and Public Health Regulations, Indoor Air Exposures, and
Asthma Rates $7,475
1993 First Year Assistant Professor Award Recipient - FSU Council for Research Creativity -
"Women's employment after childbirth: a longitudinal study in the Philippines"
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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Miles, Rebecca, Coutts, Christopher, Mohamadi, Asal. (2011). Neighborhood urban
form, social environment, and depression . Journal of Urban Health. Published online 29
October.
Coutts, Christopher & Miles, Rebecca. 2011. Greenways as green magnets: The
relationship between the race of greenway users and race in proximal neighborhoods.
Journal of Leisure Research. 43(3), pp. 317-333.
Milstead, Terence & Miles, Rebecca. 2011. DIY in a Post-Soviet Housing Market: An
Empirical Investigation of Resident-Initiated Home Improvements in Vilnius, Lithuania .
Housing Studies 26(3), pp. 403-421.
Miles, Rebecca, Song, Yan, & Frank, Lawrence D. 2010. Social diversity and
construction era of neighborhoods with traditional design features: Portland and Atlanta
compared . Journal of Urbanism 3(1), pp.19-38.
Miles, Rebecca & Song, Yan. 2009. Good Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon:
Focus on both social and physical environments . Journal of Urban Affairs, 31(4),
pp.491 509.
Frank, Lawrence D., Kerr, Jacqueline, Miles, Rebecca, Sallis, James F. 2008. A
hierarchy of sociodemographic and environmental correlates of walking and obesity .
Preventive Medicine, 47, pp.172-178.
Miles, Rebecca. 2008. Neighborhood Disorder, Perceived Safety and Readiness to
Encourage Use of Local Playgrounds . American Journal of Preventive Medicine
(AJPM), Special Issue on Active Living Environmental and Policy Research, 34(4),
pp.275-281.
Miles, Rebecca & Jacobs, David E. 2008. Future Directions in Housing and Public
Health: Findings from Europe With Broader Implications for Planners . Journal of the
American Planning Association (JAPA) Special Issue on Housing, 74(1), pp.77-89.
Miles, Rebecca, Panton, Lynn, Jang, Myungjun, and Haymes, Emily. 2008. Residential
context, walking and obesity: two African-American neighborhoods compared . Health
& Place 14(2), pp.272-286.
Monkman, Karen, Miles, Rebecca, & Easton, Peter. 2007. The transformatory potential
of a village empowerment program: The TOSTAN replication in Mali . Women s Studies
International Forum, 30(6), pp. 451-464.
Milstead, Terence, Miles, Rebecca, R ebbel, Nathalie. 2006. Housing and
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Neighborhood Conditions and Exposure to Cockroaches in the Transitioning Countries of
Eastern and Central Europe . Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 21, pp.397-
411
Miles, Rebecca. 2006. Neighborhood Disorder and Smoking: Findings of a European
Survey . Social Science and Medicine 63(9), pp. 2464-2475
Miles, Rebecca & Panton, Lynn. 2006. The Influence of the Perceived Quality of
Community Environments on Low-income Women s Efforts to Walk More . Journal of
Community Health 31(5), pp.379-392
Heath, Gregory W., Brownson, Ross C., Kruger, Judy, Miles, Rebecca, Powell, Kenneth,
E., Ramsey, Leigh T., and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. 2006.
The Effectiveness of Urban Design and Land Use and Transport Policies and Practices
to Increase Physical Activity: A Systematic Review . Journal of Physical Activity and
Health 1, pp.S55-S71.
Miles, Rebecca. 2005. Preventing asthma through housing interventions: How
supportive is the US policy environment? Housing Studies 20(4), pp.589-603.
Ham, Sandra A., Levin, Sarah, Zlot, Amy I., Andrews, Richard R. and Miles, Rebecca.
2004. Ranking of Cities according to Public Health Criteria: Pitfalls and Opportunities .
American Journal of Public Health 94(4) April 2004, pp. 546-549.
Easton, Peter, Monkman, Karen and Miles, Rebecca. 2003. Social Policy from the
Bottom Up: Abandoning FGC in Sub-Saharan Africa . Development in Practice 13(5),
pp.445-458.
Miles, Rebecca. 2002. Employment and Unemployment in Jordan: The Importance of
the Gender System . World Development 30(3), pp.413-427.
Miles-Doan, Rebecca and Thompson, Greg. 1999. "Planners and pedestrian safety:
lessons from Orlando". Journal of Planning Education and Research 18, pp.211-220.
Miles-Doan, Rebecca. 1998. Violence between spouses and intimates: does
neighborhood context matter? Social Forces 77(2), pp.623-645.
Miles-Doan, Rebecca and Brewster, Karin. 1998. The influence of mother's sector of
work in Cebu Province, the Philippines on use of maternal and child health services .
Studies in Family Planning 29(1), pp.69-78.
Miles-Doan, Rebecca and Kelly, Susan. 1997. "The geographic concentration of violence
between intimate partners". Public Health Reports 112(2), pp.135-141.
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Kelly, Susan and Miles-Doan, Rebecca. 1997. "Social inequality and injury: do morbidity
patterns differ from mortality?" Social Science and Medicine 44(1), pp.63-70.
Miles-Doan, Rebecca. 1996. "Alcohol Use Among Pedestrians and the Odds of Surviving
an Injury: Evidence from Florida Law Enforcement Data". Accident Analysis and
Prevention 28(1):23-31.
Miles-Doan, Rebecca and Susan Kelly. 1995. "Inequalities in Health Care and Survival
After Injury Among Pedestrians: Explaining the Urban/Rural Differential". Journal of
Rural Health 11(3), pp.177-184.
Doan, Rebecca Miles and Barry Popkin. 1993. "Women's Work and Infant Care in the
Philippines". Social Science and Medicine 36(3), pp.297-304.
Doan, Rebecca Miles and Susan Kelly. 1992. "Sprawling Urban Development in Florida:
Increased Injury Rates among Aging Pedestrians?" Florida Journal of Public Health vol
IV Nos. 1 & 2, Summer-Fall, pp.4-7.
Doan, Rebecca Miles. 1992. "Class Differentiation and the Informal Sector in Amman,
Jordan". International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies vol.24, January, pp.27-38.
Doan, Rebecca Miles and Leila Bisharat. 1990. "Female Autonomy and Child Nutritional
Status: The Extended-Family Residential Unit in Amman, Jordan". Social Science and
Medicine 31(7), pp.783-789.
Deang, Lionel, Rebecca Miles Doan and Barry M. Popkin. 1988. "Influences of
Household Structure and Composition on Breast-feeding". Philippine Population Journal
(4)1-4, pp.38-52.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Easton, Peter, Monkman, Karen, and Miles, Rebecca.2009. Breaking Out of the Egg:
Methods of Transformative Learning in Rural West Africa. In Mezirow, J., Taylor E.W.
Eds. Transformative Learning in Practice: Insights from Community, Workplace, and
Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint.
Miles, Rebecca. in press. School Siting And Healthy Communities: Introduction And
Problem Context. In Miles, R., Wyckoff, M., Adelaja, S. Eds., School Siting and Healthy
Communities: Why Where We Invest in School Facilities Matters. East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press.
Miles, Rebecca. in press. A Framework for Considering Health Impacts of School Siting.
In Miles, R., Wyckoff, M., Adelaja, S. Eds., School Siting and Healthy Communities:
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Why Where We Invest in School Facilities Matters. East Lansing: Michigan State
University Press.
Monkman, Karen, Miles, Rebecca, and Easton, Peter B. 2008. The Dance of Agency and
Structure in an Empowerment Educational Program in Mali and the Sudan. In The
Structure and Agency of Women s Education, Mary Ann Maslak, Editor. Albany: SUNY
Press.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2003 Invited member of the Physical Exposures Workgroup of the National
Children s Health Study (February 2003-April 2004)
2003 Invited participant in the Transportation Research Board/Institute of
Medicine Workshop on Physical Activity, Health, Transportation and Land Use,
Washington D.C., December 11, 2003 (report available at
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11203.html?ee_02)
2002 Invited member of the Smart Growth Working Group of the Children s Health
Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC); developed a memo for the EPA Administrator
advocating that the agency consider the effects of the built environment on children s
health (August-December 2002).
2002 Invited participant in the Research Agenda Workshop on the Impact of
Community Design and Land-Use Choices on Public Health, hosted by the
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), Atlanta, May 28, 2002 (see Dannenberg, A.L. et al. (2003). The Impact of
Community Design and Land-Use Choices on Public Health: A Scientific Research
Agenda . American Journal of Public Health 93(9), pp.1500-1508)
2000 Outstanding Volunteer Achievement Award, Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies
for Caribbean Action, Tallahassee, FL
1987 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Rural Sociology, Cornell
University
1983 Mackesey Prize, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Miles, Rebecca. 2005b. Smoking, housing conditions and respiratory health in the
WHO-LARES . Proceedings of the 2nd WHO International Housing and Health
Symposium, Vilnius, Lithuania, 29.09.-01.10. 2004.
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Milstead, Terence & Miles, Rebecca. 2005. Housing conditions, pest infestations and
population health in the WHO-LARES . Proceedings of the 2nd WHO International
Housing and Health Symposium, Vilnius, Lithuania, 29.09.-01.10. 2004
Popkin, Barry M. and Rebecca Miles Doan. 1990. "Women's Roles, Time Allocation and
Health", in John Caldwell et al. eds. What we know about Health Transition: The
cultural, social and behavioral determinants of health. Proceedings of an International
Workshop, Canberra, May 1989. Canberra, Australian National University.
BOOKS AND REPORTS
Miles, R., Wyckoff, M., Adelaja, S. Eds. 2011. School Siting and Healthy Communities:
Why Where We Invest in School Facilities Matters. East Lansing: Michigan State
University Press.
Easton, Peter, Miles, Rebecca & Monkman, Karen. 2004. Final Report on the Evaluation
of the TOSTAN/Entishar Village Empowerment Program Pilot Project in the Republic of
Sudan. Tallahassee, FL.
Easton, Peter, Miles, Rebecca & Monkman, Karen. 2002. Final Report on the Evaluation
of the TOSTAN/IEP Village Empowerment Program Pilot Project in Mali. Tallahassee,
FL.
Miles, Rebecca. 1997. The social and economic underpinnings of peace: a focus on
youth and unemployment in Jordan. Report prepared for the ID/Middle East Program of
the American Friends Service Committee.
Doan, Rebecca Miles, Gerard Finin, and Norman Uphoff. 1984. Local Institutional
Development for Primary Health Care. Ithaca, NY: Rural Development Committee
Monograph, Cornell University.
BOOK REVIEWS
Miles, Rebecca. 2002. How Women Saved the City by Daphne Spain. Journal of
Planning Education and Research, 22(2):201-202.
Miles, Rebecca. 2000. Population Dilemmas in the Middle East: Essays in Political
Demography and Economy by Gad Gilbar. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 34:
122-123.
Miles-Doan, Rebecca. 1996. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development
by Sara Roy. DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies 5(4):51-55, Fall 1996.
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Miles-Doan, Rebecca. 1994. Pouvoir et maladie en Afrique by Didier Fassin, Social
Science and Medicine 38(5):767, January 1994.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Buchner, David and Miles, Rebecca. 2002. Seeking a contemporary understanding of
factors that influence physical activity. [Commentary]. American Journal of Preventive
Medicine 23(2) suppl.1, August 2002, pp.3-4.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
School Siting & Healthy Communities: A Conceptual Framework .
Joint meeting of ACSP/AESOP: Chicago, Illinois, July 6-11, 2008
DIY in a Post-Soviet Housing Market: An Empirical Investigation of Resident-Initiated Home
Improvements in Vilnius, Lithuania . First AESOP Young Academics Meeting, February 7-10,
2007, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava. (with Terence Milstead)
The housing environment and respiratory health: Implications for housing plans and policies .
The 5th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 25-28
October, 2006
"Neighborhood disorder and smoking, alcohol consumption and exercise". Annual meeting of the
Urban Affairs Association, Montreal, PQ, Canada, April 19-22, 2006
Smoking, housing conditions and respiratory health in the WHO-LARES . Second
International WHO Symposium on Housing and Health, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 29-
October 1, 2004
Housing conditions, pest infestations and population health in the WHO-LARES . Second
International WHO Symposium on Housing and Health, Vilnius, Lithuania, September 29-
October 1, 2004 (with Terence Milstead)
Do Environments Supportive of Walking Promote Public Health Benefits? Joint meeting of
ACSP-AESOP in Leuwen, Belgium, July 2003 (with Ivonne Audirac)
"Women's economic roles in the context of structural adjustment policies: The implications for
women's status - Amman, Jordan 1996". Seminar on "Women and Families: the Evolution of the
Status of Women as a Factor in and a Consequence of Changes in Family Dynamics", 24-26
February 1997, CICRED (Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in
Demography) : Paris, France.
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"Using focus groups to assess the likely demographic consequences of structural adjustment
policies in Jordan". Arab Regional Population Conference. 8-12 December 1996, Cairo, Egypt
NATIONAL & REGIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Shifts in informal settlement upgrading policies in Amman, Jordan
and their potential health impacts . Annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Planning, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 13-16, 2011.
Social composition and construction era of Atlanta neighborhoods with traditional features
(with Yan Song and Larry Frank). Annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Planning, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 7-10, 2010.
Social diversity and construction era of neighborhoods with traditional design features: Portland
and Atlanta compared (with Yan Song and Larry Frank). Annual meeting of the American
Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA, August 14-17, 2010
Neighborhood environments and mental health (with Chris Coutts and Asal Mohamadi).
Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Crystal City, VA, 2009
Presentation to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Sustainability
Workgroup, Tuesday, March 10th - Public Transportation and Healthy Communities,
Tallahassee, FL
Good Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon: Focus on both social and physical environments
(with Yan Song and Larry Frank). Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association:
Boston, MA, August 1-4, 2008
School Siting & Healthy Communities: A Conceptual Framework . FSU School Siting &
Healthy Communities Symposium, Tallahassee, FL, April 3-4, 2008
How Equitable is the Distribution of Good Neighborhoods? Portland and Atlanta Compared
(with Yan Song and Larry Frank). Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Planning: Milwaukee, WI, October 18-21, 2007
Local Neighborhood Environment Effects on Readiness to Encourage Children s Use of Local
Playgrounds and on Own Physical Activity: What Role for Perceived Safety? Annual Active
Living Research Conference, San Diego, Feb.22-24, 2007
Neighborhoods by physical urban form and social context: The case of Portland, Oregon,
(with Yan Song). Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Fort
Worth, Texas, November 9-12, 2006
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Residential context, walking and obesity: Two African-American neighborhoods compared
(with Lynn Panton, Myungjun Jang, and Emily Haymes). Annual Meeting of the Association of
Collegiate Schools of Planning. Fort Worth, Texas, November 9-12, 2006
Differences in obesity and physical activity within an African-American population: Do
neighborhood environments matter? (with Lynn Panton & Emily Haymes). International
Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health, Atlanta, GA, April 17-20, 2006
Neighborhood disorder and smoking: Findings of a European survey . Annual Meeting of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Kansas City, MO Oct. 27-30, 2005
Obesity, physical activity and the environment in low-income, African-American communities:
What do we know? Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Portland, OR, Oct. 21-24, 2004 (with Lynn Panton)
Can master planning influence physical activity? An exploration of campus design and walking
behaviors Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Baltimore,
Nov. 21-24, 2002 (with Ivonne Audirac)
Local regulations and indoor air exposures: The case of asthma . Annual Meeting of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Cleveland, Nov. 8-11, 2001
Economic adjustment, gender and employment in Jordan . Annual Meeting of the Population
Association of America - New York, NY March 1999
Planning for the Prevention of Injuries to Pedestrians: A Focus on Urban Arterial Roadways
(with Greg Thompson). Workshop Five: Transportation and the Urban Health Challenge.
Meeting the Urban Health Challenge: A Joint Public Health and Urban Planning Conference,
convened by the Hunter College Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Dept. 18
and 19, 1998, New York, NY
Gender differences in the effects of structural adjustment on employment: The case of Jordan .
Paper session on Gender dimensions of planning for developing areas. Annual meeting of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Fort Lauderdale, FL Nov. 6-9, 1997
Using focus groups to specify micro-macro linkages . Roundtable on Qualitative research and
analysis methods. Annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Fort
Lauderdale, FL Nov. 6-9, 1997
"Structural Adjustment and household decision-making in Jordan: Macro-micro linkages". Paper
presented at the annual meetings of the Middle Eastern Studies Association, Providence, Rhode
Island, November 21-24, 1996.
Neighborhood context of violence between intimate partners and other violence compared: An
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ecological study of Duval County, Florida . Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, May 9-11, 1996
"The geographic concentration of violence between intimate partners: Implications for planners".
Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of
Planning, Detroit, MI, October 19-22, 1995
"An Ecological Study of the Interpersonal Violence Epidemic". Symposium on Epidemiology and
Public Health Research in Florida. July 20-21, 1995, Gainesville, FL. Sponsored by the
University of Florida Office of Research, Technology & Graduate Education, Center for
Biostatistics & Epidemiology Research and Department of Health Policy & Epidemiology
"The influence of mother's sector of work in Cebu Province, the Philippines on use of maternal
and child health services" (with Karin Brewster). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, April 6-8, 1995
"Neighborhood context of domestic and non-family violence compared". Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic Association, Atlanta, GA, October 1994
"The effect of mother's work sector on use of preventive health services: How does a gender lens
affect the analysis?" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic
Association, Atlanta, GA, October 1994
"Spatial inequality and injury: A study of intentional and unintentional injury in Dade County,
Florida" (with Susan Kelly). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern
Demographic Association, New Orleans, LA, October 1993.
"The conceptualization and measurement of sequence in the life course". Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach, FL, August 1993
"Assessing the effect of pre-admission screening on transitions into nursing homes in Dade
County, Florida" (with Rob Lombardo). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Florida
Council on Aging, Miami, FL, September 1993
"Risk factors for nursing home placement among older residents of Dade County, FL: 1989-
1992". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic Association,
Charleston, SC, October 1992.
"Urbanization and the incidence of pedestrian injuries among the elderly" (with Susan Kelly).
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic Association, Jacksonville,
FL, October 1991
"Women's Work and Infant Care in the Philippines" (with Barry Popkin). Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, April 1989 Washington, DC
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Feb.-June Subject Matter Expert, Sustainable and Livable Communities
2009 NIIT Enterprise Learning Solutions, New Delhi, India
Assisted the team in developing a 6-8 weeks Master s-level course on creating
and maintaining livable and sustainable communities.
Trainer for the Moroccan Educators Training Tour, Florida State University
June 2000
Provided gender and development training in French, focused on recruitment and
retention of girls in primary schools, to a group of Moroccan administrators and
teachers
March 2000 Consultant, Evaluation of TOSTAN Village Empowerment Project in
May 2001 Kati, Mali, funded through TOSTAN in Dakar, Senegal and the Wallace Global
Fund
Trainer for the Guinean Educators Training Tours, Florida State University
Fall 1998
Fall 1999 Provided gender and development training in French, focused on recruitment and
retention of girls in primary schools, to groups of Guinean administrators and
teachers
Summer 99 Volunteer consultant, Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies for Caribbean
Action (FAVA/CA) - St. Lucia
Led a group of students in developing a proposal for a pilot project in community-
based agrotourism for the island of St. Lucia in the Eastern Caribbean; initial
funding obtained through the Ministry of Agriculture
Summer 97 Consultant to American Friends Service Committee, Middle East Desk
Researched and wrote a report on the links between economic development and
the peace process
1/96-12/01 Co-chair of advisory panel, Middle East Programs
American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, PA
1/94-1/96 Advisory panel member, Middle East Programs
American Friends Service Committee
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June 1994 Consultant to Family Health International, Women's Studies Project
Provided technical assistance on the Cebu Women's Follow-Up Study in the areas
of conceptualization and measurement of women's autonomy, economic roles and
political participation, research design, and theories of gender and development
(USAID Cooperative Agreement #AID/CCP-3060-A-00-3021-00)
May 1994 Volunteer consultant, Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies for Caribbean
Action (FAVA/CA) - Barbados
Carried out a needs assessment in the area of formal and informal care of older
Barbadians
June 1993 Consultant to Management Systems International, Inc., Women in
Development Project
Provided technical assistance in data analysis for the project manager of the
DAC/WID Theme III Project - Phase II, under CDIE PRISM (USAID Project No.
1644-001)
1984-86 Advisor on Community Development and Social Research, Near East Foundation
and Municipality of Amman, Jordan
Helped design, implement and analyze the Amman Health and Population
Assessment to evaluate the impact of a squatter area upgrading project in three
urban settlements. Designed, wrote funding proposals for, and coordinated a
community-based primary health care program and other community center
programs in these areas.
1983-84 Research Associate, Local Institutional Development Project, Center for
International Studies, Cornell University
Reviewed and analyzed available documentation on primary health care programs,
and on ways in which local institutions mobilize the resources to carry out their
programs.
1982 Research Associate, More and Better Food Project, Egyptian National Research
Center, Cairo, Egypt
Evaluated the long-term impact of this integrated rural development project on the
nutritional status and general welfare of the village inhabitants.
1980-81 Training Specialist, America-Mideast Educational and Training Services
(AMIDEAST), West Bank/Gaza Human Resource Development Project,
Washington, D.C.
Designed training programs in the U.S. for Palestinian university professors and
development professionals in fields related to socioeconomic development.
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1978-80 Associate Director, American Friends Service Committee Pre-School Project,
Gaza Strip
Participated in the planning and implementation of pre-school programs in the
refugee camps of the Gaza Strip.
1977-78 Teaching/Travel Fellowship Recipient, Ramallah Friends School, West Bank
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Urban and Regional Planning Department
Doctoral Program Director, 8/06 present
Doctoral Policy Committee, chair 8/06 present
Financial Aid Committee, 8/06 - present
Undergraduate Program Director, 1/00 - 8/01, 8/04 8/06
Curriculum Committee, chair, 8/98 - 8/00, 8/02-5/03
PhD Methods Examiner, Methods Qualifying Examiner, 8/94 present
Coordinator, Peace Corps-FSU Master s International Program, 8/97 - 8/01
Academic Personnel Committee, chair, 8/2000 - 5/01, 8/03 5/04
Alumni Affairs Liaison - 8/94 - 5/98
International Affairs Committee - 8/93 - 5/94, 8/98 - 12/99, 8/06 8/08
College of Social Sciences
Promotion and Tenure Committee, member, 8/09 - present
Policy and Academic Affairs Committee, chair, 1/06-12/06
Policy and Academic Affairs Committee, 8/93 - 5/98, 8/99 - 5/01, 8/02-12/05, 8/07-09
Search committee, chair - Full Professor of Demography, 12/2000 - 8/01
Florida State University
Global Pathways Certificate Academic Advisor (1/10-present)
Graduate Policy Committee (GPC), 9/06 5/08
Subcommittee chair, GPC review of the Master s in Public Health Program, Fall 06
Fulbright Student Selection Committee, 8/07 present
Faculty Senate, 4/05 4/07
Faculty Advisory Board for Service Learning, 8/05-08
Teaching Evaluation Committee, member, 8/02 8/07
SERVICE TO THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
Reviewer, Oregon Transportation Research & Education Consortium, Proposal
Reviewer, Open Programme Social Sciences, Proposal
Reviewer, National Science Foundation Proposal
Referee, Urban Studies
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Referee, Journal of the American Planning Association
Referee, Journal of Planning Education and Research
Referee, Housing Studies
Referee, Social Science and Medicine
Referee, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Referee, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Referee, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Referee, Social Forces
Referee, Demography
Referee, Population Research and Policy Review
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Planning Association (6/08-present)
ACSP Faculty Women s Interest Group (FWIG) President (7/08 10/10)
Track chair, Planning for Human Health and Safety track, ACSP conference, 2005-2007
Co-Track chair, Planning for Human Health and Safety track, ACSP, 2004-2005
ACSP Faculty Women s Interest Group (FWIG) Secretary (11/98 10/05)
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) (institutional membership)
American Sociological Association
LANGUAGE SKILLS
French - Fluent written and spoken Spanish - Fair
Arabic - Fair
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