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Email:
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Biographical Sketch:
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2005 - Present, Public Health Prevention Service.
NYC DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, BUREAU OF STD CONTROL, Oct. 2006 – Present, Epidemiology and Surveillance and Program Implementation Teams.
NCHHSTP, Apr. 2006 – Sept. 2006, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Behavioral Surveillance Team.
NCBDDD, Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2006, Office of the Director, Policy, Planning and Evaluation Team and Program Development Team.
MILENIO FEMINISTA, Guanajuato, Mexico, July - Sept. 2005, Research Intern.
IPAS, Chapel Hill, NC, Feb. 2005- June 2005, Consultant.
MEASURE EVALUATION PROJECT, Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill, NC, Aug. 2004- June 2005, Research Assistant.
FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL, Durham, NC, Summer 2004, Intern, Contraceptive Technology Research Program.
CUTCHINS PROGRAMS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN, Northampton, MA, 2000-2002, Residential Mental Health Counselor.
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
New Recommendations on Preconception Care. Nov. 2005. Presentation to the Fellows Group of CDC’s National Center
on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
The CDC Evaluation Framework for the Healthy Weight Initiative. Dec. 2005. Presentation to the National Scientific
Advisory Group for AMCHP and CityMatCH’s Women’s Health Partnership.
The Women’s Health Partnership’s Healthy Weight Initiative: Planning a Process Evaluation. March 2006. Presentation
to the Fellows Group of CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
Social Capital and Substance Use Among American Women of Reproductive Age: An Analysis of NSDUH 2003 Data.
Under development for publication.
Evaluation of Technical Assistance and Monitoring. Sept. 2006. Presentation to Behavioral Surveillance Team and
National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System grantees.
STD Prevention and Testing. Oct. 2006 – Present. Regular presentations to students of public high schools about STD risks, prevention, and testing.
Population-Based Surveillance of Neonatal Herpes in New York City: Findings from the First Year. July 2007. Oral
presentation at the 2007 International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research Conference, Seattle, WA, USA.
Relationship Between Social Cohesion and Substance Abuse Among Women of Childbearing Age in the US, 2003. Boulet
S, Handel S, Ebrahim S. Co-author on abstract presented by poster at 2007 Preconception Health and Health Care Conference, Oakland, CA, USA.