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Jocelyn Finlay

Visiting Scientist

Global Health and Population

jfinlay@hsph.harvard.edu

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Transition in social risk factors and adolescent motherhood in low- income and middle- income countries: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey data, 1996-2018.

Huda MM, Finlay JE, O'Flaherty M, Al Mamun A.

PLOS Glob Public Health. 2022. 2(5):e0000170. PMID: 36962188

Partner's characteristics and adolescent motherhood among married adolescent girls in 48 low-income and middle-income countries: a population-based study.

Huda MM, O'Flaherty M, Finlay JE, Edmed S, Mamun AA.

BMJ Open. 2022 03 09. 12(3):e055021. PMID: 35264355

Time trends and sociodemographic inequalities in the prevalence of adolescent motherhood in 74 low-income and middle-income countries: a population-based study.

Huda MM, O'Flaherty M, Finlay JE, Al Mamun A.

Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2021 01. 5(1):26-36. PMID: 33245863

Sexual and reproductive health knowledge among adolescents in eight sites across sub-Saharan Africa.

Finlay JE, Assefa N, Mwanyika-Sando M, Dessie Y, Harling G, Njau T, Chukwu A, Oduola A, Shah I, Adanu R, Bukenya J.

Trop Med Int Health. 2020 01. 25(1):44-53. PMID: 31691455

Lifetime economic impact of the burden of childhood stunting attributable to maternal psychosocial risk factors in 137 low/middle-income countries.

Smith Fawzi MC, Andrews KG, Fink G, Danaei G, McCoy DC, Sudfeld CR, Peet ED, Cho J, Liu Y, Finlay JE, Ezzati M, Kaaya SF, Fawzi WW.

BMJ Glob Health. 2019. 4(1):e001144. PMID: 30713746

Inequality in total fertility rates and the proximate determinants of fertility in 21 sub-Saharan African countries.

Finlay JE, Mejía-Guevara I, Akachi Y.

PLoS One. 2018. 13(9):e0203344. PMID: 30226852

Identifying Causal Effects of Reproductive Health Improvements on Women's Economic Empowerment Through the Population Poverty Research Initiative.

Finlay JE, Lee MA.

Milbank Q. 2018 06. 96(2):300-322. PMID: 29870117

Economic growth and child malnutrition - Authors' reply.

Vollmer S, Harttgen K, Subramanyam M, Finlay J, Klasen S, Subramanian SV.

Lancet Glob Health. 2016 12. 4(12):e903. PMID: 27855864

Stunting risk of orphans by caregiver and living arrangement in low-income and middle-income countries.

Finlay JE, Fink G, McCoy DC, Tavárez LC, Chai J, Danaei G, Ezzati M, Fawzi W, Fawzi MC.

J Epidemiol Community Health. 2016 Aug. 70(8):784-90. PMID: 26826211

The Effects of Maternal Mortality on Infant and Child Survival in Rural Tanzania: A Cohort Study.

Finlay JE, Moucheraud C, Goshev S, Levira F, Mrema S, Canning D, Masanja H, Yamin AE.

Matern Child Health J. 2015 Nov. 19(11):2393-402. PMID: 26100131

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Exploring pregnancy’s impacts on careers, finances

The July 10, 2018 episode of the WNPR’s “Where We Live,” which focused on pregnancy in America, featured Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Jocelyn Finlay, senior research scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population.…

Adolescents in developing countries face numerous health threats

From smoking to the ravages of war, adolescents in developing countries face numerous threats to their health.

Lower birth rates bring economic benefits but raise short-term inequality

As a country’s birthrate declines, people of working age make up a larger share of the population, which can fuel economic improvement. But a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers finds that lower birthrates raise…

Women's height declining in many low-income countries

April 25, 2011 -- Over the last four decades the average height of women has declined in Africa, stalled in several South American countries, and varied considerably in other low- to middle-income countries, according to a new HSPH…