Fall 2009

"Family Disruption in Sweden: New Possibilities and Preliminary Results from Administrative Registers" Nordic data registers are a source of longitudinal life histories for entire populations. Particularly problematic for family scholars is the fact that no register exists for cohabiting partnerships. A new database, Sweden in Time: Activities and Relations (STAR), includes information to estimate cohabitation, and thus separation of cohabiters, when partners have a child together.

(joint with DGHI)"Maximizing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of HIV and STI Interventions"Garnett is Professor of Microparasite Epidemiology at Imperial College London. His main area ofresearch is the epidemiology and control of sexually transmitted infections. His recent work has focused onthe potential impact of HPV vaccines, the epidemiological consequences of antiretroviral treatments and theevaluation of HIV Prevention programs.