David E. Bell Fellows - 2008-2009

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars - 2008-2009 

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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Fellows - 2008-2009

Nedialka Douptcheva

Nedialka Douptcheva is a Research Fellow at the Center and holds an MS in Population and International Health from Harvard School of Public Health and a BA in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.  Currently she is working on two projects including population health in Kuwait, and the health effects of coal burning bans in different cities in Ireland.  Some of her other research interests include the use of information technology to increase access to health care in low resource settings.  Her Master's thesis focused on the gaps in human resources for health and examined how those can be supplemented by new advancements in technology.

Timothy Mah 

Timothy Mah is a Research Fellow in the AIDS Prevention Research Project. He received his Master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in June 2006 and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Global Health and Population Studies at Harvard.  Prior to pursuing his graduate degree, Tim worked in the Public Policy and Communications Department at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.  He also served two years with the US Peace Corps as a community health and HIV/AIDS education volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa.  In that capacity, he developed and implemented numerous HIV prevention initiatives targeted at young people.  Tim's research interests are in HIV prevention and in particular in the determinants and predictors of sexual behaviour change in response to HIV epidemics.  Tim received his BA in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Allison Herling Ruark

Allison Herling Ruark is a Research Fellow in the AIDS Prevention Research Project. She holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Williams College and an M.S. in Public Health from Oregon State University. She has conducted research with youth in Uganda about the sociocultural context of delay of sexual debut and has also worked or conducted research in Kenya, Morocco, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Mozambique. Her current research focuses on youth sexual behavior in the context of HIV prevention, the timing of sexual debut, the transition to adulthood among adolescents and links between youth and adult sexual behavior.