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Senior Research Associate

Melissa Stillman

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Melissa Stillman joined the Guttmacher Institute in 2013. Her main research interests include adolescent sexual and reproductive health behaviors and needs, sexuality education, fertility intentions and contraceptive use among couples, and abortion in developing countries. She is a member of the Population Association of America, the Asian Population Association and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. Ms. Stillman received her master of science in public health with a focus on population, family and reproductive health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012.

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Selected Publications

  1. November 2018 Report

    Unintended Pregnancy, Abortion and Postabortion Care in Gujarat, India–2015

    Harihar Sahoo, Melissa Stillman, Jennifer J. Frost and Shveta Kalyanwala
  2. October 2018 Policy Analysis

    Towards Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Comparative Analysis of the Policy Environment Surrounding School-Based Sexuality Education in Ghana, Peru, Kenya and Guatemala

    Christine Panchaud, Melissa Stillman, Kofi Awusabo-Asare, Angélica Motta, Estelle M. Sidze and Ana Silvia Monzón Sex Education
  3. July 2018 Research Article

    Challenges to Implementing National Comprehensive Sexuality Education Curricula in Low- And Middle-Income Countries: Case Studies of Ghana, Kenya, Peru and Guatemala

    Sarah Keogh, Melissa Stillman, Kofi Awusabo-Asare, Estelle M. Sidze, Ana Silvia Monzón, Angélica Motta and Ellie Leong PLOS ONE
  4. December 2017 Research Article

    The Incidence of Abortion and Unintended Pregnancy in India, 2015

    Susheela Singh, Chander Shekhar, Rajib Acharya, Ann M. Moore, Melissa Stillman, Jennifer J. Frost, Harihar Sahoo, Manoj Alagarajan, Rubina Hussain, Aparna Sundaram, Michael Vlassoff, Shveta Kalyanwala and Alyssa Browne The Lancet Global Health
  5. June 2017 Report

    From Paper to Practice: Sexuality Education Policies and Curricula and Their Implementation in Guatemala

    Ana Silvia Monzón, Ana Lucía Ramazzini, Elena Prada, Melissa Stillman and Ellie Leong
  6. May 2017 Report

    From Paper to Practice: Sexuality Education Policies and Their Implementation in Peru

    Angélica Motta, Elena Prada, Arón Núnez-Curto, Kelika Konda, Melissa Stillman and Carlos F. Cáceres
  7. May 2017 Opinion

    Sex education programmes in Kenyan schools are failing students

    Melissa Stillman and Estelle M. Sidze The Conversation
  8. April 2017 Opinion

    Sexuality education failing students

    Estelle M. Sidze and Melissa Stillman Daily Nation (Kenya)
  9. April 2017 Report

    From Paper to Practice: Sexuality Education Policies and Their Implementation in Ghana

    Kofi Awusabo-Asare, Melissa Stillman, Sarah Keogh, David Teye Doku, Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme, Kobina Esia-Donkoh, Ellie Leong, Joshua Amo-Adjei and Akinrinola Bankole
  10. April 2017 Report

    From Paper to Practice: Sexuality Education Policies and Their Implementation in Kenya

    Estelle M. Sidze, Melissa Stillman, Sarah Keogh, Stephen Mulupi, Caroline P. Egesa, Ellie Leong, Martin Mutua, Winstoun Muga, Akinrinola Bankole and Chimaraoke Izugbara

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