Faculty/Staff Information

Emily Vala-Haynes

, Health & Exercise Science

89256 | valahaynese@wou.edu
RWEC 235

Why I chose WOU

At WOU since

09/16/2014

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Hometown

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Classes Taught

Course	Title	Location	Days	Times
EXS 590	RESEARCH METHODS	RWEC 203	--T-R--	1000-1150
EXS 490	RESEARCH METHODS	RWEC 203	--T-R--	1000-1150
HE 375	EPIDEMIOLOGY	RWEC 206	-M-W---	1000-1150
HE 343	INTRO HLTH DATA ANLYSIS & VISL	ONLINE CRS	-------	-

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

Undergrad courses taught

Epidemiology

Biometrics and Research Methods

Child and Adolescent Health

International Health

Reproductive Health

Migrant Health

Violence and Public Health

Maternal and Child Health

Health Inequities

Beginning Rock Climbing

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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