Rebecca Y. Stallings
Rebecca Y. Stallings, M.S.[a 1], MHS[a 2], holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia (1976), a master's degree in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health (1982), and a master's degree in Geospatial Sciences from Missouri State University (2017).[1]
From 1977 through 2000, she worked on a wide variety of research projects led by professors in the schools of Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine in her successive positions in Epidemiology, Maternal & Child Health, and International Health in the School of Public Health and Infectious Disease in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University as a Biostatistician/Data Analyst/Programmer, initially as staff and later as faculty. Simultaneously, she worked closely with many graduate students on the analysis of their doctoral/master’s degree research. She also taught a doctoral Nursing research course and a graduate summer data management course during this period.[1]
From 2001-2002, Ms. Stallings was on the faculty of the graduate program now known as Community Health & Policy at Morgan State University, where she taught Biostatistics and worked collaboratively with other faculty members.[1]
From 2002-2005, she worked for a private company in Maryland (χ2 Statisticus Consultoris [?], ORC MACRO [?]) in the division specializing in international demographic and health surveys as a Senior International Health Specialist.[1]
The research topics of greatest interest to her are, specifically: 1) risk factors forinfection and transmission of infectious diseases and their spatial distristibution, especially in developing countries and 2) risk factors for and spatial distribution of environmentally-linked illnesses.[1]
Circumcision promotion
In 2005, she presented an analysis of the 2003-04 Tanzania HIV/AIDS Indicator Survey (the THIS) which finds that HIV rates are significantly lower in circumcised women (see publication).
Publications
Stallings, Rebecca Y., with: Emilian Karugendo: Female circumcision and HIV infection in Tanzania: For better or for worse?, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (24 July 2005–27 July 2005) 3rd International AIDS Society Conference. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
See also
- Alleged reasons for circumcision
- HIV
- Immunological and protective function of the foreskin
- United States of America
- Vagina
Abbreviations
- ↑
Master of Science
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (Latin: magisterii scientiae; also abbreviated MS, MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) - ↑
Master of Health Science
, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (Also abbreviated as M.H.Sc.)
