Ilene Sharon Speizer

Research Professor
Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ilene_speizer@unc.edu

Field of Study: Demography, Public Health/ Epidemiology
 
Specialization: Children and Youth, Fertility, Gender Roles-Differentials, HIV/AIDS and STI's, Reproductive Health (Family Planning), Urbanization
 
Regional focus: United States and Canada, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Demography, 1994
 
Working languages: English
French
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Population Association of America (PAA)


Curriculum Vitae:
CV_SPEIZER_Ilene_June 2026.pdf
Professional web page:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T2MjQDAAAAAJ&hl=en  
 
Professional Summary:

Ilene Speizer undertakes research on family planning, HIV prevention, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and unintended pregnancy prevention. Her work seeks to identify which programs are more or less successful to help inform how governments or program planners should use their finite resources. She has led research and evaluation projects in sub-Saharan Africa, India, Haiti, and the U.S.