Faculty/Staff Information
Emily Vala-Haynes
Associate Professor, Health & Exercise Science
503-838-9256 | valahaynese@wou.edu
RWEC 235
At WOU since
09/16/2014Course schedule
Spring 2023CRN | Course | Title | Times | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
31404 | HE406 | SIS: Public Health Comm Partne | - | --- --- |
Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology: University of Pennsylvania
M.P.H. in Global Health: Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
B.A. in Political Science: University of California, San Diego
Undergraduate courses taught
Current research
My research focuses on international reproductive health, and I have experience working on projects in Mexico, Argentina, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Mali. I am primarily interested in reproductive health challenges–access to contraception, unintended pregnancy, maternal mortality, and intimate partner violence–faced by women in rural areas both internationally and in the United States. My most recent work explores decision making and female sterilization in South Asia and Latin America. This study is the first to quantitatively assess the current state of informed choice across countries where female sterilization is a common modern method of contraception.
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