Expertise Elizabeth Sully Sexual and reproductive health HIV/AIDS 125 Maiden Lane, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10038 Family demography [email protected] +1 646 438 8759 International development Advanced quantitative methods Education
PhD, Public Affairs and Demography Princeton University, Princeton (USA), 2015 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs & the Office of Population Research Dissertation: “An Intimate Epidemic: HIV and Marriage in Rural Uganda” Committee: Noreen Goldman, Sara McLanahan, Georges Reniers, and Matthew Salganik Teaching Assistant: Poverty, Inequality and Health in the World (Angus Deaton); Generalized Linear Statistical Models (Germán Rodríguez); Research Methods in Demography (Georges Reniers); Human Genetics, Reproduction and Public Policy (Lee Silver)
Master of Arts Princeton University, Princeton (USA), 2013 Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs & the Office of Population Research
Joint Honors Bachelor of Arts, International Development Studies and Political Science McGill University, Montreal (Canada), 2008 Thesis: “The Impact of Gender-Based Violence and Women’s Empowerment on HIV Status among Women in Kenya” Advisor: Shelley Clark
Research Experience
Senior Research Scientist Guttmacher Institute, New York (USA), June 2015 – present Principal Investigator on study of abortion incidence, abortion-related complications and unintended pregnancy in Zimbabwe Leading analysis of adolescent abortion rates in Uganda and Ethiopia
Visiting PhD Researcher Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe (Uganda), June-Aug 2010 & 2011, Oct-Nov 2012 Led a research study on event sequencing between HIV infection, migration and marital dissolution in rural Uganda using 14 years of annual sero-surveillance data Collaborated with local researchers to analyze extra-spousal partnerships, leading the project to publication
Visiting PhD Researcher Rakai Health Sciences Program, Rakai (Uganda), Oct – Nov 2012 Analyzed annual sero-surveillance data to estimate the effect of concurrent partnerships on HIV incidence among married couples
Research Coordinator & Research Assistant Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, Ottawa (Canada), 2008-2009 Managed data collection of the Two-Spirit Women’s Experience of Homophobia in the Context of HIV/AIDS Service Provision project, including the development of snowball recruitment strategies for hard-to-reach populations, building partnerships with community stakeholders, designing qualitative questionnaires, conducting in-depth interviews, and supervising field researchers in six study sites across Canada Assisted in study design and implementation of the Sexual Violence, HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal Women research study
Research Assistant Professor Shelley Clark, Canada Research Chair in Youth, Gender and Global Health, Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), May – Aug 2008 Supported HIV/AIDS research through proposal development, data re-coding, article retrieval for literature reviews, bibliography maintenance, and copy-editing
Intern, Global Child Labor Policy Data Initiative Institute of Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), May – Aug 2008 Analyzed, coded and entered data on legislation to create a global database of national child labor policies
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Intern, Policy, Research and Performance Division Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment, Nairobi (Kenya), May – Aug 2007 Collaborated with researchers to develop a research proposal, design qualitative and quantitative questionnaires and conduct a literature review on disclosure of HIV status Designed and collected data through in-depth qualitative interviews and focus groups for (1) a study assessing the impact of post- test clubs on HIV care and support, and (2) a needs assessment for a youth-led peer-support organization Reviewed PEPFAR youth HIV prevention policies in Kenya and led a team of researchers publishing a policy review
Program Assistant Equitas – International Centre for Human Rights Education, Montreal & Vancouver (Canada) June – Sept 2006 Conducted a needs assessment for the project Preventing Racism and Discrimination: Preparing Canadian Children to Engage in a Multicultural Society. Led stakeholder engagement and community mobilization, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews. Developed strategies with community stakeholders for the project’s sustainability and implementation
Publications and Presentations
Peer Reviewed Articles Pittrof, R., Sully, E., Bass, D.C., Kelsey, S.F., Ness, R.B., & Haggerty, C.L. (2012). Stimulating an immune response? Oral sex is associated with less endometritis. International Journal of STD & AIDS, 23(11), 775-780. Kasamba, I., Sully, E., Weiss, H.A., Baisley, K., & Maher, D. (2011). Extraspousal partnerships in a community in rural Uganda with high HIV prevalence: a cross-sectional population-based study using linked spousal data. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), 58(1), 108-14. Mung’ala, L., Sully, E., Pilozzi-Edmonds, L., Parkinson, A., & Kilonzo, N. (2007). Youth sexuality and the ABC model: priorities, problems and policy. Sex Matters, Urgent Action Fund Publications, 179-209.
Journal Correspondence Sully, E., Kasamba, I., Weiss, H.A., Baisley, K., & Maher, D. (2012). Authors’ reply: Lack of association between concurrency and HIV infection: an artifact of study design. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), 60(1), e21.
Non-Peer Reviewed Sully, E. & J. Daigle. (2008). The health-security nexus: a policy analysis of sexual and gender-based violence and reproductive health programs for women in refugee camps. Means to an End, End Poverty Now Publications, 19-64. Sully, E. & K. Mark. (2007). Beyond commodities: a gendered analysis of immigration and trafficking in Canada. The McGill Journal of Political Studies, 35-51.
Conference Presentations Sully, E., Reniers, G., Kasamba, I., Asiki, G., Seeley, J. Marriage in the era of antiretroviral therapy: HIV status and marital change in rural Uganda. Annual Population Association of America Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2015. [Oral presentation]. Sully, E., Bukenya, D., Seeley, J. Marital partnership selection and HIV seroconcordance in a generalized epidemic setting. Annual Population Association of America Meeting, San Diego, CA, May 2015. [Oral presentation Sully, E., Nalugoda, F., Ekoru, K., Lutalo, T., Reniers, G., & Selley, J. Reported partnership concurrency and HIV incidence among married couples in two population-based cohort studies in rural Uganda. Annual Population Association of America Meeting, Boston, MA, May 2014. [Oral presentation]. Sully, E., Nalugoda, F., Ekoru, K., Lutalo, T., Reniers, G., & Selley, J. Testing the concurrency hypothesis: HIV incidence among married couples in two population-based cohort studies in rural Uganda. XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, Republic of Korea, August 2013. [Oral presentations]. Sully E. Marriageable mates: patterns in partnership formation and sero-sorting in rural Uganda. XXVII IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, Republic of Korea, August 2013. [Poster presentations]. Sully, E. Marriageable mates: How effective is partnership selection as an HIV prevention strategy? Annual Population Association of America Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2013. [Oral presentation] Sully, E., & Ekoru, K. Rural migration and social dislocation: using GIS data on social interaction sites to measure meaningful differences in rural-rural migrations. Annual Population Association of America Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2012. [Oral presentation] Sully, E., Reniers, G., Ekoru, K., & Seeley, J. Partnership concurrency and HIV incidence in a population-based cohort study in rural Uganda. Annual Population Association of America Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2012. [Poster presentation] Sully E., Reniers, G., & Kasamba, I. HIV, marital dissolution and migration: a longitudinal analysis of differential risk of migration sero-status in rural Uganda. Mini-Conference on Marriage Patterns, Union Stability and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, San Francisco, CA, May 2012. [Oral presentation].
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Sully, E., Reniers, G., & Kasamba, I. HIV, marital dissolution and migration: a longitudinal analysis of female migration in rural Uganda. 6th African Population Conference, Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, December 2011. [Oral presentation] Sully, E., Reniers, G., & Kasamba, I. HIV and marriage-related migration: a longitudinal analysis of differential risk of migration by sero-status in rural Uganda. Annual Population Association of America Meeting, Washington DC, April 2011. [Poster presentation]
Working Papers
Marriage in the era of antiretroviral therapy: HIV status and marital change in rural Uganda [Under review] – Documents the changing relationship between HIV infection and marital dissolution and remarriage with the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy. Finds that while HIV is associated with higher rates of marital dissolution and lower rates of remarriage, the introduction of ART has coincided with a stabilization of concordant positive marriages and increase in HIV-positive men’s likelihood of remarrying. (Collaboration with Georges Reniers, Ivan Kasamba, Gershim Asiki, Noreen Goldman and Janet Seeley) Marital partnership selection and HIV seroconcordance in a generalized epidemic setting – Examines trends in assortative mating on HIV status at marital partnership formation using a mixed-methods analysis. Taking into account population composition changes, this paper finds evidence of serosorting among both HIV-positive and HIV-negative men and women. This paper uses in- depth qualitative interviews on the process of marriage formation and simulation models to assess how both indirect and direct selection mechanisms. (Collaboration with Dominic Bukenya and Janet Seeley) Under-reporting of partnership concurrency among married men and women in rural Uganda – Uses 13 years of linked- partnership and HIV incidence data in two rural sero-surveillance sites in Uganda to document the under-reporting of concurrent partnerships among married men and women. (Collaboration with Georges Reniers) What about men? Gender and household spending in developing countries – A critical review of the economic sociology literature on gender and household spending in developing countries, highlighting the gaps in our understanding of men’s spending. (Collaboration with Viviana Zelizer) Intimate partner ideal qualities, tradeoffs and the process of relationship formation – Explores the meaning of long-term relationships using 50 in-depth interviews from rural Uganda. Examines what people look for in a long-term partner, and the reality of what people compromise on in order to maintain relationships, and how this effects reception of HIV prevention messaging. (Collaboration with Dominic Bukenya) HIV and residential mobility - Uses 13 years of longitudinal data to run a discrete-time event history analysis on the relationships between HIV and residential mobility, finding that HIV-positive men and women are more likely to experience residential mobility. This relationship holds for both long-distance and short-distance moves. Couple-level analysis shows that HIV-positive women were more likely to move alone, while HIV-positive men were more likely to move with a spouse. (Collaboration with Georges Reniers and Ivan Kasamba) Rural migration and social dislocation - Employs GIS data to explore different spatial measures of rural-rural migration. Develops and tests Social Dislocation, a new measure of migration, using distance to the nearest trading centers as a proxy for spatial social networks, and measured changes in geographically proximate trading centers following migration. (Collaboration with Kenneth Ekoru)
Selected Grants
Summer Dissertation Research Grant, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, 2013 Dissertation Grant, Center for Health and Wellbeing/Health Grand Challenge, Princeton University, 2012
Selected Honors and Awards
Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, full scholarship, Princeton University, 2013-present Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies Graduate Fellowship (declined) Princeton University, 2014 University Fellowship, full scholarship, Princeton University, 2009-2013 Poster Session Winner, Population Association of America, 2011 Personnalité 1er cycle, Forces AVENIR, awarded to top three Quebec undergraduates for academic excellence and leadership, 2008 Loran Award, Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation, merit scholarship awarded to 30 Canadians selected for academic achievement and community leadership, 2005-2008 Excellence Award – National, Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation, federal scholarship for community involvement, innovation, leadership and academics, 2005-2008 James McGill Scholar (declined) McGill University, 2005-2008 British Columbia Duke of Edinburgh Scholar, Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, 2002-2004
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Technical Skills
Research: Designing qualitative and quantitative tools; developing data collection and recruitment strategies; managing field research; coding and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data; advanced quantitative statistical analysis. Statistics: Demographic methods, econometrics, generalized linear statistical models, survival analysis, multilevel modeling, GIS and spatial regression analysis, bayesian analysis, structural equation modeling, risk assessment Statistical software: Stata, R, ArcGIS, Atlas TI, OpenGeoDa, Mplus, Excel Languages: English (fluent), French (intermediate), German (beginner)
Leadership and Community Involvement
Volunteer Planned Parenthood Association of Mercer Area, Trenton (USA), Sept 2012 – Dec 2013
Population Research Representative for Graduate Student Government Princeton University, Princeton (USA), 2012
Chair of Graduate Student Liaison Committee Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton (USA), 2011-2012
Board Member, Chapter Co-Founder, Volunteer Children’s International Summer Village, Montreal (Canada), 2004-2009
Director, Member McGill Global AIDS Coalition, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), 2005-2008 Led an advocacy and education campaign on Canada’s generic-drug-for-export legislation by developing resources, leading workshops, organizing demonstrations, creating petitions, meeting with legislators, and corresponding with government ministries Student representative for the Global Treatment Access Group (GTAG), a civil society organization aimed at improving access to essential medicines and improving health for people in developing countries
Professional Engagement
Association membership: Population Association of America (PAA), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
Referee: Sociological Quarterly, BMC International Health and Human Rights