Deborah R McFarlane

Professor, Political Science
University of New Mexico

dmcf@unm.edu

Field of Study: Public Administration/ Government, Public Health/ Epidemiology
 
Specialization: Policy and Ethics, Reproductive Health (Family Planning)
 
Regional focus: United States and Canada, Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Public Health/Epidemiology, 1983
 
Working languages: English
Spanish
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Population Association of America (PAA)
 


Curriculum Vitae:
CV.McFarlane.2024.pdf
Professional web page:
https://polisci.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/deborah-r.-mcfarlane.htmlhttp://  
 
Professional Summary:

Deborah R. McFarlane is a Professor and Regents Lecturer at the University of New Mexico. She holds a doctorate in public health (DrPH, Health Policy and Management) from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, an MPA (Public Administration and Policy) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an MPH (Population and Reproductive Health) from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She graduated summa cum laude from Michigan State University with a major in Sociology (Demography),  She has held faculty appointments at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Dallas), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, and  University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

 

Publications:
  • --McFarlane, Deborah R. 2015. "The Affordable Health Care Act and Abortion: Comparing the U.S. and Western Europe,” Politics and Life Sciences 34: 2 (September), pp. 52-70. 

--McFarlane, Deborah R. (Editor and author of 5 chapters). 2015. Global Population and Reproductive Health.  Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2015. http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9781449685201/.  Preview:https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2016/06/global-population-reproductive-health-book-preview/

--Doan, Alesha E. and McFarlane, Deborah R. 2012. “Saying No to Abstinence-Only Education: An Analysis of State Decision-Making,” Publius 42:4, 613-635.
--McFarlane, Deborah R. 2006. “Reproductive Health Policies in President Bush’s Second Term: Old Battles and New Fronts in the United States and Internationally,” Journal of Public Health Policy 27:4 (December).

--McFarlane, Deborah R. &  Meier, Kenneth J.  2001. The Politics of Fertility Control: Family Planning and Abortion Policies in the American States. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press.

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Phi Beta Kappa
Research grants:
Principal Investigator. “Learning from Experience: Accounts and Documents from Population Pioneers,” Five year project, $300,000, from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, (2002-2006). Archived at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA. http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/prh/prh-intro.html