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Post Doc Alumni
Laith Abu-Raddad |
| The core of my research interests is mathematical modeling of infectious diseases. The central theme is the study of the interaction between variables that determine the typical course of infection in a community of hosts. Although my interests span a wide scope of infectious agents, my main current focus is on HIV/AIDS where I study the role of vaccination and treatment protocols in controlling the spread of HIV. Furthermore, I have keen interest in the interaction of HIV and other diseases such as malaria and herpes. Other areas of interest include the dynamics of multiple strain pathogens such as influenza and malaria and the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases especially as it relates to demographic structure of human and animal populations. In terms formalism, it ranges from deterministic epidemic and population models to individual-based stochastic and network methods.
OFFICE : Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research & Prevention
PHONE : 1616 Eastlake Ave N, Suite 400
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Ylva Hernlund |
| I have been doing research in The Gambia, West Africa since 1988, focusing on local reactions to campaigns against female genital cutting (FGC). I videotaped Gambia's first set of alternative rituals, 'initiation without mutilation,' in 1998. I am now a Research Associate through CSDE, involved in a three-year NSF-funded study with Bettina Shell-Duncan, which uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine decision making around FGC and uses a local team of field workers. I am affiliated with Gambia College and Cheik Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.
OFFICE : Anthropology
PHONE : Denny 443
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Roxanne Kerani |
| Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for AIDS and STD
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Mary Shenk |
| My postdoc is funded by an Individual National Research Service Award from NIH under which I will be working with Shelly Lundberg from Economics and Darryl Holman from Anthropology as well as undertaking further training in microeconomic and demographic methodology. My current and future postdoctoral research focuses on comparing models of dowry inflation from anthropology with those from demography and economics, modeling the demographic transition and marital demographics in Bangladesh, and working on developing general models of marriage systems that incorporate the logic of behavioral ecology. My dissertation research focused on the economics of marriage and parental investment in South India, where I did field research in the city of Bangalore (Karnataka State) from 2001-2002. While in the field I was affiliated with the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore.
OFFICE : Anthropology
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