Shelley Clark is interested in how social policies, processes, and institutions affect the health and well-being of individuals in developing countries.
Her recent work has examined how the social institution of marriage, in which the majority of heterosexual activity occurs, shapes the risks of HIV/AIDS. She finds that for adolescent girls in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, marriage does not provide a safe haven, arguing instead that married adolescent girls are acutely vulnerable with respect to HIV. Clark also explores whether concerns about HIV/AIDS are influencing the process of marriage as young men and women decide when and whom to marry. Additional research focuses on the risk perceptions and protection strategies within married couples.
After receiving her Ph.D. in public and international affairs from Princeton University, Clark served as program associate at the Population Council in New York. While at the Population Council, she worked on the introduction of new reproductive health technologies such as medical abortion, misoprostol for reproductive health indications, and emergency contraception in a number of countries. Clark was an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago until the summer of 2006 when she joined the faculty at McGill University as an Associate Professor in Sociology.
Professor Shelley Clark
Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Global Health
McGill University
Room 336
3460 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1X9
Phone: 514-398-8822
Email:
shelley.clark [at] mcgill.ca (Professor Shelley Clark)
Dana Hamplova is interested in life-course research with special emphasis on the intersection between marital and fertility behavior and labor market institutions.
She graduated with Ph.D. in Sociology from Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). In 2006-2009, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Canadian Research Chair in Social Statistics and Family Change. Currently, she is associate with the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Prague and she working as a Database Manager in the Life Histories, Health and HIV/AIDS Data Laboratory.
Dana Hamplova
McGill University
Room 336
3460 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1X9
Phone: 514-398-3044
Email:
dana.hamplova [at] mcgill.ca (Dana Hamplova)
Rohini Mathur completed her Msc. in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2007. She worked alongside Shelly Clark as a research assistant in 2008-2009 to help develop the data laboratory and conduct research into adolescent transitions into marriage among youth in urban Kenya. Rohini was previously with the British Medical Research Council in the Microbicide Development Programme and most recently with the non-profit sexual health organization Marie Stopes International. Rohini has also worked in Tanzania implementing educational workshops and community based theatre programs targeting HIV/AIDS and adolescent health. Her previous research has included the investigation of syndromic management methods in detecting sexually transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Said Aboubacar is a PhD candidate in demographics at the Institut National de la Recherche Schientifique, Urbanisation, Culture et Société (INRS-UCS) in Montreal. From august 2008 to august 2009 he worked in the Data Center as the Data Manager.
After earning his BA in sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1993, he worked for a variety of international organizations in Africa, such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Centre International pour le Développement et la Recherche (CIDR) and the UNFPA. His experience includes the implementation of health projects in Africa, such as the creation of HIV/AIDS youth centers and a micro-health insurance financing network in the Comoros. In 2003 he completed a Masters Degree in sociology at Southern Illinois University.
He is currently working on several projects in the area of the economic integration of visible minority immigrants in Canada and North-America.