Demographer, Statistician, Epidemiologist

Kanako Ishida Ph.D.

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TEL : +1-657-***-****

Ph.D. in Sociology with specializations in Demography and Statistics

11 years of conducting epidemiological, public/population health research and monitoring and impact evaluation at federal and international agencies

Advanced analytic skills and excellent command of statistical software including STATA, SAS/SUDAAN, and SPSS and mobile data collection tools including Qualtrics and XSL forms (KoboCollect)

Extensive experience in analyzing large population-based surveys, surveillance, and program/administrative data for policy analysis and program monitoring and evaluation

Strong peer-reviewed publication record in epidemiology and demography

Trilingual (English/Spanish/Japanese)

Education

9/2007

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

6/2003

M.A. in Sociology, UCLA

3/1999

B.A. in Liberal Arts (Concentration in Sociology), International Christian University, Tokyo, JAPAN

Professional experience

02/2024-

present

Social Science Analyst

Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Rockville MD

(40 hours/week)

Lead re-designing of the national behavioral health data reporting frameworks to guide data collection and submission for all 50 states and U.S. territories to improve data quality, accuracy, and consistency as the subject matter expert.

oModernize and update the reporting guidelines for the Mental Health Client-Level Data and Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Episode Data Set, the only national data sources for information on persons who use behavioral health services in the U.S. in alignment with current federal requirements and guidance by the Office of Management and Budget.

oDesign an online state survey, engaging key stakeholders and developing a questionnaire to inform state technical assistance needs and to identify areas of improvement in these national behavioral datasets.

oSupport building state capacity to collect and report the state data through workshops, seminars, and online materials.

oCoordinate data quality assessment and control measures.

Critically evaluate and disseminate data to promote evidence-based policy and program-building.

oCoordinate and prepare high-quality reports for national audiences and manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals for mental health and substance use research community.

oPromote the visibility and use of these national datasets through conference workshops, seminars, and online materials.

02/2022-02/2024

Epidemiologist

Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) team, Waterborne Disease Prevention Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta GA

(40 hours/week)

As part of the COVID-19 response, coordinate and manage several WASH projects in healthcare settings in Central America (Guatemala, Belize, and El Salvador) and in East Africa (Kenya and Uganda)

oMaintain oversight and provide technical assistance for grant and cooperative agreements.

oLead and coordinate local implementing partners on hand hygiene-focused projects in healthcare facilities and key community locations.

oSupport Uganda’s emergency Ebola outbreak response by scaling up the production of ABHR in 2022-23

Formulate, plan, and execute surveys and studies to monitor and evaluate the progress and effectiveness of interventions in WASH projects.

oDefine and design sampling schemes and develop data collection tools and protocols in various settings (healthcare facilities, schools, and other community locations) given constrained resources.

oBuild mobile data collection forms (such as KOBO and SurveyCTO), provide data quality checks, and data cleaning.

oOversee multiple community data collection activities in person and virtually throughout the program/project implementation cycle to ensure high-quality data to identify gaps, enablers, and bottlenecks for effective program implementation and management.

oTrain enumerators for field data collection.

oProvide recommendations to the program implementers to improve program delivery based on the analysis findings.

Critically evaluate and disseminate data in scientific papers and presentations.

oGuidance the team and local partners in applying advanced, rigorous statistical methods to collect and analyze data to ensure high-quality data reporting on the programs and projects.

oCoordinate and prepare high-quality reports and manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals for dissemination of the findings.

oBuild capacity among local partners in Kenya and Uganda on research.

07/2021-02/2022

Research and Evaluation Coordinator

School-based COVID Testing Program, Los Angeles County Office of Education

Full-time (40 hours/week)

As a senior advisor, oversee program monitoring and evaluation of the school-based COVID-19 testing in K-12 schools in Los Angeles County funded by the CDC grant ($260 million) to facilitate the safe reopening of schools during the pandemic.

Provide technical guidance, support, and training to Los Angeles County Office of Education and school district staff, in the areas of sampling, data collection and management and management, statistical analysis, and interpretation of COVID-19 testing data.

Oversee the formulation, planning, and execution of various community data collection tools, using mobile data collection software (Qualtrics)

Establish and implement quality control safeguards to ensure the quality of the testing data.

Oversee the development of, and updates to, PowerBI dashboards that disseminated high-quality, visual reporting of the progress of the testing program, which was customized for each school district and school, to all stakeholders, including the LA County leadership, CDC, school districts, and schools.

03/2020-07/2021

Chief Research Analyst/Section lead

Research Section, Los Angeles County Department of Probation

Full-time (40 hours/week)

As the Chief of the Research Section, manage the new research team of eight MA- and Ph.D.-level research analysts of the Department and work with operations staff to help define the Department’s research, evaluation, and reporting needs and provide guidance in ensuring that data systems and reporting systems align with these needs.

Oversee validation studies of the risk and needs assessment tools (e.g. LS/CMI-Level of Services/Case Management Inventory and the Los Angeles Detention Screener) used by the Department. Evaluate their predictive ability for recidivism across population subgroups, using advanced statistical methods and longitudinal data from multiple sources.

Oversee the designing and development of surveys and studies, including pre- and post-behavioral risk surveys and the data collection protocol to measure the effectiveness of youth therapies and mental health interventions at juvenile correction facilities. This involved an extensive literature review of existing measures/scales and their applications. Oversee the administration of the surveys at the juvenile correction facilities.

Oversee the designing and development of an automated, PowerBI-based dashboard for timely and high-quality data reporting, dissemination, and sharing. Examples include a monthly reporting system for violent incidents that occur in juvenile correction facilities.

Evaluate staff’s performance against targets annually.

02-03

/2020

International consultant for Household Surveys,

The Americas and Caribbean Regional Office, Panama City, Panama, UNICEF

(Remote, Part-time: 16 hours per week)

Guide UNICEF and local agencies in implementing the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey—MICS, in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. This includes reviewing and adapting the survey to the local context, leading the interviewer training for the data collection and providing data-quality checks.

07/2019-03/2020

Consultant,

California Orange County Department of Education, Costa Mesa, CA

(Part-time: 16 hours per week)

As a technical consultant for the program evaluation team, provide scientific advice and technical assistance to the Department’s evaluation team in designing evaluation studies and in using the available data for policy making and program building.

Formulate, plan, and execute evaluation studies to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of various school-based projects and programs.

Oversee the development of a district-level, equity-focused student status report, which summarized graduation rates, absenteeism, suspension/expulsion rates as well as test scores on state-wide standardized tests disaggregated by school districts and student characteristics such as racial/ethnic identification, socioeconomic status, and disabilities, using GIS maps and graphs.

Conduct in-depth, equity-focused analyses of California’s state-wide school survey data (“California Healthy Kids Survey”) to identify risk factors for substance abuse, bullying, and mental health (suicidal ideation and depression), using advanced statistical methods. Examine how the risk is associated with students’ characteristics and the school’s racial/ethnic composition and socioeconomic status.

Develop customized analysis plans for each district/school to inform the development of district-/school-specific strategies, including evidence-based designing of student wellness centers.

01/2013-04/2016

Evaluation Specialist

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, SWITZERLAND

(Full-time, 40 hours/week)

In the multi-disciplinary, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team, develop, implement, manage, and monitor the M&E function of the Fund and the funding recipient countries to ensure result-based funding.

Develop evidence-based M&E guidance and framework to ensure the effectiveness and progress of interventions.

oCoordinate the development of a guidance note, “M&E Framework for the Global Fund grants with interventions with insufficient coverage indicators”, based on the findings from the above thematic review. Provide clear guidance on how to define milestones, evaluate whether the objective is met, and collect data for human rights interventions for which progress cannot be measured through quantitative coverage or outcome indicators.

Provide technical oversight for equity-focused, country- and regional-level epidemiological studies.

oOversee or facilitate the implementation of scientifically rigorous studies and ensure that study findings were shared across multiple stakeholders and utilized to inform target setting during the development of National Strategic Plans and funding proposals.

oCoordinate the development of country profiles, for all Fund’s 25 high-priority countries, which summarize each country’s epidemiological trends, particularly, the impact in reducing the disease burden along with scaling up key interventions, modifying behaviors related to disease risk, and addressing inequity issues, using multiple data sources.

oManage and provide oversight on several multi-country thematic reviews (e.g. human rights and maternal, newborn, and child health), including the development of ToR and an in-depth review of the analysis plan, its execution, and draft report to ensure high-quality deliverables.

Build national evaluation capacity.

oAs the Global Fund representative, participate in country-led, joint national disease program reviews. Plan and coordinate data collection, data quality assessment, and epidemiological analyses at the national and sub-national levels to assess the program’s impact in reducing the disease burden in the country and to identify the success and bottlenecks in collaboration with partners such as WHO and Ministries of Health.

oConduct data-quality assessment for select countries to ensure they have robust data reporting systems or survey data to meet the reporting requirements of the Fund.

09/2012–

01/2013

Epidemiologist/Senior Service Fellow

CDC Polio Response, Emergency Operation Center, CDC, Atlanta GA

(Full-time, 40 hours/week)

As a behavioral and social science consultant to UNICEF, design, and formulate their data collection tools/systems.

oOversee the development of data collection/reporting tools to identify the factors associated with children’s failure to receive oral polio vaccines during campaigns in the polio-endemic countries (Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan).

oReview, refine, and finalize the UNICEF’s Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) survey questionnaire in Nigeria to assess caregiver’s attitudes toward polio and polio vaccines.

Critically evaluate and disseminate data through reports.

oDevelop a report “Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) Status Report” to update and document the progress toward polio eradication in polio-endemic countries, analyzing and reporting on surveillance data on acute flaccid paralysis in collaboration with international partners (WHO, UNICEF, and Rotary International)

07/2010–06/2012

Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer

CDC/(stationed at) Puerto Rico Department of Health

(Full-time, 40 hours/week)

During the most prestigious on-the-job training and service fellowship called the Epidemic Intelligence Service program, learn to lead and apply epidemiology to solve public health problems in the field through conducting scientifically rigorous research and evaluation while stationed at the Puerto Rico Department of Health.

Design, plan, and initiate studies to develop evidence-based projects and policy advocacy.

Plan and coordinate a survey targeted at pediatricians to identify barriers to reporting suspected child maltreatment. Analyze the data, publish reports, and disseminate findings and recommendations on how to remove these barriers widely among stakeholders.

Lead the analysis and publication of studies on child maltreatment and intimate partner violence, using advanced statistical methods applied to data from the National Child Abuse, Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

Coordinate and manage public health intervention activities and program.

Lead field investigations for disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. Examples include a mercury spill at a high school and a tuberculosis outbreak in a long-term facility for severe schizophrenic patients, both in the San Juan metropolitan area.

Coordinate the launch of a national prevention program for Shaken Baby Syndrome, covering 80% of mothers in Puerto Rico in collaboration with the federally funded nutrition program (WIC) and its 99 offices in 2012. Coordinate community-based data collection to monitor and evaluate the program progress, including incidences of infant abusive head trauma using insurance claim data.

Build multi-sectorial partnerships.

Lead and organize “Alliance for the Prevention of Child Maltreatment in Puerto Rico” to facilitate communication and collaboration among academia, health care providers, and government and non-government agencies from health, legal, and educational sectors.

11/2007–05/2010

Demographer/Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education fellow (GS11 equivalent),

Maternal and Child Health Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, CDC, Atlanta GA

(Full-time, 40 hours/week)

As part of MEASURE Evaluation funded by USAID, collect quality data and conduct analysis to help health care professionals and policymakers, typically USAID field missions and local ministries of health, make evidence-based policymaking on maternal, child, and reproductive health programs and interventions.

Help the team to implement nationally representative household surveys, including questionnaire designing, pilot testing, interviewer training, data-quality checks and data cleaning and analysis, and preparation of final reports for the 2008 Reproductive Health Surveys for Paraguay and Jamaica and the 2007 Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey.

Conduct a series of secondary analyses of data from the Reproductive Health Surveys and Demographic Health Surveys collaboratively with local experts, using innovative analytical approaches to document social and behavioral determinants of physical and mental health and the use of health care services among women and children. Won a CDC’s Excellence in Behavioral and Social Science Research in Public Health and also received an honorary mention for CDC’s Statistical Science Awards, both in 2012 for one of the studies that evaluated the impact of a nationwide distribution campaign of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) on under 5 mortality in Togo, using advanced statistical method.

03/2003

–06/2006

Teaching Associate,

Department of Sociology, UCLA

(Part-time, 20 hours/week)

Teach weekly sections (small class of 25 students) for an undergraduate course, “Introduction to Sociological Research Methods,” to supplement lectures conducted by the faculty, assisting a total of 75 students with survey projects. The objective of these projects was to introduce students to data collection using a structured survey and bivariate hypothesis testing, using chi-square, t-test, ANOVA, correlation and simple regression, and the statistical program, SPSS.

Evaluate these projects and course examinations and hold weekly office hours to help the students individually.

06–09

/2004

Researcher (internship),

Guatemala Regional Office,

World Health Organization/Pan-American Health Organization (WHO/PAHO)

(Fulltime, 40 hours/week)

Evaluate intra- and inter-institutional registration systems for domestic violence incidents by conducting extensive interviews with personnel of a support network at police stations, county human rights offices, courts, local public health centers, and hospitals at the county level. Identify incomplete, duplicative, and conflicting data in these institutions’ management of statistics. Prepare and present the final report, “Investigación sobre el registro de la violencia intrafamiliar” to the PAHO/WHO, Guatemala, which included proposed strategies for national information coordination.

4/1999

–07/2001

Sociologist (Japan Oversea Cooperation Volunteer),

JICA/Ministry of Education of Guatemala

(Fulltime, 40 hours/week)

Specific activities:

Design and coordinate a survey targeting parents of elementary school children at the county level to detect the causes of drop-out and low enrollment rates by assessing their socioeconomic and cultural characteristics. This included questionnaires and protocol development, pilot studies in the field, random sampling (with a sample size of 1,860 parents from 300 schools), interviewer training, data entry, cleaning and analysis using SPSS, and writing, publishing, and distributing the final report “Diagnóstico del Sistema Educativo del Nivel Primario del Departamento de Huehuetenango.” Provide recommendations to the project administrators in the Ministry to tackle the problems detected in the survey.

Facilitate communications among more than 30 national and international organizations in the county, aiming at a better allocation of project resources to communities. Accomplish this by setting up an information clearinghouse where they were required to register and report their educational projects, making the information accessible to the communities.

Published articles in peer-reviewed journals

Tusabe, F. Ishida, K. et al. 2025. “Cleaning and disinfection practices of reused alcohol-based handrub containers in healthcare settings: Evidence from five rural districts in Uganda.” Online ahead of print American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39965207/

Ly, Anh, et al. 2025. “Hand hygiene knowledge, attitudes, practices, and hand dirtiness of primary school students before and after a behavioral change intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic, Belize 2022 – 2023.” Forthcoming in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Pieters, M. et al. 2025. “Primary School Students: Insights from a Promotion Program in Guatemala,”

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(3) https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/22/3/424

Pieters, M. et al. 2025. “Changes in Hand Hygiene Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Among Primary School Students: Insights from a Promotion Program in Guatemala,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(3), 424 https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/22/3/424

Ishida, K., et al. 2024. “Evaluation of a district-wide, locally-produced alcohol-based hand rub program: Hand hygiene practice among healthcare workers in five rural districts in Uganda before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 18;111(6):1343-1352. https://www.ajtmh.org/view/journals/tpmd/111/6/article-p1343.xml

Ly, Anh, et al. 2024. “Water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure and resources in schools in Belize during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 – 2023.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(4), 470 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38673382/

Medley, Alexandra, Ishida, K. et al. 2024. A low burden, high impact method to identify and evaluate healthcare and community spaces, and provide critical hand hygiene interventions, during a public health emergency – Uganda 2020-2022. (manuscript under review)

Ishida, K., et al. 2013. “Child maltreatment in Puerto Rico: Findings from the 2010 National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System.” Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal. 32 (3): 124-131 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24133893/

Ishida, K., et al. 2012. “Ethnic inequality in Guatemalan women’s use of modern reproductive health care.” International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 38(2): 99–108 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22832150/

Ishida, K., et al. 2012. “Exploring the connections between HIV serostatus and individual, household, and community socioeconomic resources: Evidence from two population-based surveys in Kenya” Social Science & Medicine. 74:185-195 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22169625/

Ishida, K., et al. 2011. “The problem of eligibility and endogenous confounders when assessing the mortality impact of a nationwide disease- prevention programme: The case of insecticide-treated nets in Togo” Population Studies. 65(1):1–15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324728.2010.544323

Ishida, K., et al. 2011. “Prevalence and correlates of sexual behaviors among adolescents: A population-based study from Jamaica.” International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 37(1):6–15 https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/ipsrh/2011/03/prevalence-and-correlates-sexual-risk-behaviors-among-jamaican-adolescents

Ishida, K.. 2011. “Ethnicity, assimilation and un-partnered childbearing in Guatemala.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies.42(2):233–252 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41604434

Ishida, K., et al. 2010 “Exploring the associations between intimate partner violence and women’s mental health: Evidence from a population-based study in Paraguay.” Social Science & Medicine. 71:1653–1661. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20864237/

Ishida, K.. 2010. “The role of ethnicity in father absence and children’s school enrollment in Guatemala.” Population Research and Policy Review. 29:569–591 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2904456/

Ishida, K., et al. 2010. “Perinatal risk for common mental disorders and suicidal ideation among women in Paraguay.” International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 110:235–240 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20472235/

Ishida, K., et al. 2010 “Stalled Fertility Decline in Ecuador.” International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. 35(4):203–206 https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/ipsrh/2009/12/stalled-decline-fertility-ecuador

Ishida, K., et al. 2009. “Fertility decline in Paraguay.” Studies in Family Planning. 40(3):227-234 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25593962

Published reports

Ishida, K. The effects of student and school characteristics on victimization of bullying and mental health among secondary school students in Orange County: Evidence from the 2018-19 California Healthy Kids Survey. 2020 Costa Mesa, California: Orange County Department of Education.

Ishida, K.. The effects of student and school characteristics on victimization of substance abuse among secondary school students in Orange County: Evidence from the 2018-19 California Healthy Kids Survey. 2020 Costa Mesa, California: Orange County Department of Education.

Evaluation, Assessment and Data Center, Educational Services Division. 2018-19 Status of student report for Orange County. 2020 Costa Mesa, California: Orange County Department of Education (as a primary author)

Ishida, K.. Sudan Malaria Indicator Surveys: Trend analysis on key indicators between 2005-2012. 2014 Geneva, Switzerland: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Ishida, K., et al. “Las barreras para reportar los casos de maltrato entre pediatras en Puerto Rico [Barriers to reporting cases of child maltreatment among pediatricians in Puerto Rico].” 2012 El Bisturi. San Juan, Puerto Rico: The College of Doctors and Surgeons of Puerto Rico

World Health Organization, Rotary International, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and United Nations Children’s Fund. 2012 Global Polio Eradication Initiative Status Report: 3rd Quarter 2012. Global Polio Eradication Initiative (as a contributor)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2012. “Tuberculosis Outbreak in a Long-Term–Care Facility for Mentally Ill Persons — Puerto Rico, 2010–2012.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 61(39):801 (as a primary author)

Contreras, Juan Manuel et al. 2010. Sexual Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Desk Review. Pretoria, South Africa: Sexual Violence Research Initiative. (as a contributor)

National Family Planning Board. 2009. Jamaica Reproductive Health Survey 2008–09: Final Report. Atlanta, GA: CDC. (as a contributor)

National AIDS and STI Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Kenya. 2008. Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007: Preliminary Report. Nairobi, Kenya. (as an editor)

Goldberg, Howard, et al. 2009. Survey on Child Mortality and the Coverage and Utilization of Insecticide-Treated Nets Three Years after the Integrated Campaign in Togo, 2007-2008: Final Report. Atlanta, GA: CDC.

Ishida, K.. 2001 Diagnóstico del Sistema Educativo del Nivel Primario del Departamento de Huehuetenango. Guatemala: Ministry of Education.

Conference presentations

“Maltrato de Menores en Puerto Rico: 2006-2010 [Child Maltreatment in Puerto Rico: 2006-2010],” at the Annual Convention of the Puerto Rico Pediatric Society, San Juan, February 2012

“Maltrato de Menores en Puerto Rico e Indicadores de Maltrato [Child Maltreatment in Puerto Rico and Indicators of Maltreatment],” at the Annual Convention of Puerto Rican Association for Childhood Education in Early Age, San Juan, February 2012

“Maltrato de Menores en Puerto Rico: 2006-2009 [Child Maltreatment in Puerto Rico: 2006-2009],” at the Annual Convention of Epidemiology, San Juan, November 2011

“Maltrato de Menores en Puerto Rico: 2006-2009 [Child Maltreatment in Puerto Rico: 2006-2009],” at the Annual Convention of the Pediatric Association, the West Region, Mayaguez, September 2011

“Asociaciones entre Victimización de Violencia entre Pareja y Otros Indicadores de Salud entre Mujeres y Hombres—Puerto Rico, 2005 [Associations between Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Other Health Indicators among Women and Men—Puerto Rico, 2005]” at the Regional Conference of Epidemiology, Arecibo, May 2011

“Associations Between Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Other Health Indicators among Women and Men—Puerto Rico, 2005” at the 60th Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference, Atlanta, April 2011

“Evaluation of Mortality Impact of Mass Disease-Prevention Efforts: A Case of Nationwide Distribution of Insecticide-Treated Nets in Togo, West Africa” at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America (PAA), Dallas, April 2010

“Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Mental Health: A Population-Based Study,” at PAA, Dallas, April 2010

“Evaluation of Mortality Impact of Mass Disease-Prevention Efforts: A Case of Nationwide Distribution of Insecticide-Treated Nets in Togo, West Africa” at the annual meetings of the American Public Health Association (APHA), Philadelphia, November 2009

“Fertility Decline in Paraguay” at the annual meetings of the Southern Demographic Association, Greensville, October 2008

“Father Absence and Children’s School Enrollment Status in Guatemala” at PAA, New Orleans, April 2008

“Un-Partnered Childbearing in Guatemala: Community and Individual Effects of Ethnicity” (poster) at PAA, New Orleans, April 2008

Professional activities

Reviewer, Social Science and Medicine, Studies in Family Planning, Pan American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Dove Medical Press, Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Social Science Quarterly, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma

Awards

2012

2012

2006–07

Winner, 2012 CDC Excellence in Behavioral and Social Science Research in Public Health for Ishida et al. “The problem of eligibility and endogenous confounders when assessing the mortality impact of a nationwide disease- prevention programme: The case of insecticide-treated nets in Togo”

Honorable mention, 2012 CDC/ATSDR Statistical Science Awards (in the area of applied statistics) for the same paper

Dissertation year fellowship in Latin American Sociology from the Andrew W.

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