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Currently, my research describes links between adolescents' health and economic circumstances, including the role of employment in teen risk behaviors; safe sex and economic dependence on boyfriends; and community college student risk behaviors. I write the teen risk blog.

My dissertation studied virginity pledgers (Pediatrics 2009) and accuracy of adolescent self-report (American Journal of Epidemiology 2009) (AJE paper's data) and (American Journal of Public Health 2006). The virginity pledge work got some media coverage, even on Saturday Night Live (starting around 1:40).

After college, I did a qualitative study that became a small part of part of this paper , published in Science in December 2001, coincidentally the last time I updated the style of this webpage.

Selected past presentations

• Talking about statistics to the media: APHA 2009.
• Virginity pledges: APHA 2008, APPAM (top poster 2008)
• Inconsistent survey responses: Federal Committee for Statistical Methodology, 2007. and presentation.
• Careers in public health, Smith College, December 1, 2008.

Additional affiliations

• Long flowing hair club for scientists

Some links

• IQSS blog
• MIT AI lab research guide