PhD (1992) University of Southampton, UK; MSc (1989) University of Southampton, UK.
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa 25%-49% • International 25%-49% • Latin America Less than 10%
Specialization:
International Health; Women's Health; Contraceptive use dynamics; Monitoring and evaluation of international population, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS programs; International maternal health; Infant mortality.
Relevant Experience:
• External Evaluation Group for S4CCM (2010); Director, MEASURE Evaluation project. Analyst, Demographic and Health Surveys Project. Consultant. Expert consultant for WHO Reproductive Health Division consultations • 2016-2016 Lead Facilitator, GEMNET-Health and MEASURE Evaluation Workshop. Accra, Ghana • 2015 WHO/USAID/World Bank consultation (2015) • 2011-2016 Principal Investigator on Global Health Epidemiology and Strategic Information Services Grant • 2010-2010 External Evaluation Group for S4CCM
Distinctions:
1995 President's Award for Excellence
Macro International Inc.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
15
Relevant Courses Taught:
MHCH 716, International Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Okigbo, Chinelo, Ilene Speizer, Marisa Domino, and Sian Curtis. "A Multilevel Logit Estimation of Factors Associated with Modern Contraception in Urban Nigeria." World Medical & Health Policy 9, no. 1 (2017): 65-88.
• 2015 Marlow, HM, S. Maman, D. Moodley, S. Curtis, and LM Reyes. "HIV Status and Postpartum Contraceptive use in an Antenatal Population in Durban, South Africa." Contraception 91, no. 1 (2015): 39-43.
• 2015 Curtis, Sian L., Robert G. Mswia, and Emily H. Weaver. "Measuring Maternal Mortality: Three Case Studies using Verbal Autopsy with Different Platforms: E0135062." PLoS One 10, no. 8 (2015).
• 2015 Skiles, MP, SL Curtis, P. Basinga, G. Angeles, and H. Thirumurthy. "The Effect of Performance-Based Financing on Illness, Care-Seeking and Treatment among Children: An Impact Evaluation in Rwanda." Bmc Health Services Research 15, no. 1 (2015): 375.
• 2014 Levy, J. K., Curtis, S., Zimmer, C., & Speizer, I. S. (2014). Assessing Gaps and Poverty-Related Inequalities in the Public and Private Sector Family Planning Supply Environment of Urban Nigeria. Journal of Urban Health, 91(1), 186-210.
• 2013 Marlow, H. M., Maman, S., Moodley, D., & Curtis, S. (2013). Postpartum Family Planning Service Provision in Durban, South Africa: Client and Provider Perspectives. Health care for women international, (2013).
• 2012 Meghdadpour, S., Curtis, S., Pettifor, A., & MacPhail, C. (2012). Factors associated with substance use among orphaned and non-orphaned youth in South Africa. Journal of adolescence, 35(5), 1329-1340.
• 2012 Curtis S., et al. "Beyond indicators: advances in global HIV monitoring and evaluation during the PEPFAR era." JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 60 (2012): S120-S126.
• 2012 Singh K. Curtis S., Bloom S, “Global Maternal and Child Health.” In Kotch, J. Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems and Policies in Public Health. 3rd ed Sunbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
• 2010 Richard Harding, Victoria Simms, Suzanne Penfold, Paul McCrone, Scott Moreland, Julia Downing, Richard A Powell, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Eve Namisango, Peter Fayers, Sian Curtis and Irene J Higginson Multi-centred mixed-methods PEPFAR HIV care & support public health evaluation:study protocol, BMC Public Health 2010, 10:584
• 2010 W. Sambisa, R.T. Naved, G. Angeles, P.Lance, and S.L. Curtis. Prevalence and risk markers of male-on-female intimate partner violence in urban Bangladesh: Physical and sexual abuse from a male perspective. Stud. Fam. Plan. 2010;41(3): 165-178
• 2010 Sambisa W, Curtis S, Stokes CS. Ethnic differences in sexual behavior among unmarried adolescents and young adults in Zimbabwe. J Biosoc Sci 2010;42(1):1-26.
• 2010 Sambisa W, Curtis S. Mishra V. AIDS stigma as an obstacle HIV testing uptake: Evidence from a Zimbabwean national population based survey. AIDS Care 2010;22(2):170-86.
• 2004 Curtis, S.L. and E.G. Sutherland. 2004. “Measuring sexual behaviour in the era of HIV/AIDS: the experience of demographic and health surveys and similar enquiries” Sexually Transmitted Infections, 80(suppl II), ii22-ii27.
• 2003 Buekens P, Curtis SL, Alayon S
Demographic and health surveys: caesarean section rates in sub-Saharan Africa.
British Medical Journal: 326 , 136 , 18 January , 2003
• 2003 Fiona Steele and Sian Curtis
Appropriate Methods for Analyzing the Effect of Method Choice on Contraceptive Discontinuation
Demography: 40 , 1 , 1-22 , February , 2003
• 2003 Magadi, M. and S.L. Curtis. 2003. “Trends and determinants of contraceptive method choice in Kenya” Studies in Family Planning 34(3), 149-159
• 2002 Blanc AK , Curtis SL , Croft T
Monitoring Contraceptive Continuation: Links to Fertility Outcomes and Quality of Care
Studies in Family Planning: , 127-140 , 2002
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