Courses Taught
EPID550: Reproductive Epidemiology
EPID658: Field Internship in Epidemiology II
EPID663: Health, Evidence, and Human Rights
EPID665: Research Seminar in International Health
EPID620 The Epidemiology of Women's Health For winter term, Sioban Harlow will be teaching this course.
Research Interest & Projects
Dr. Harlow has developed analytical approaches for the analysis of menstrual cycle data and conducted several studies which couple the maintenance of a menstrual diary over an extended period of time with frequent measurement of risk factors in various population cohorts. She has defined a lifespan approach to understanding the variability in menstrual function throughout the reproductive lifecourse, presented evidence of the growing impact of menstrual dysfunction in developing countries on women's health and daily functioning and articulated the importance of addressing menstrual dysfunction in reproductive health programs. Currently she is PI of a multi-study collaboration (The ReSTAGE Collaboration) evaluating protocols for staging reproductive aging using menstrual and endocrine markers (AG 021543) and she is PI of a study of secular change in menstrual functions (HD055524). Dr. Harlow is also co-PI for the Michigan site of the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a multi-site longitudinal study of health of women as they transition through the midlife and co-Investigator on a population-based study of vulvadynia (HD054767). Dr. Harlow is the former Director of the University Michigan Global Health Research and Training Initiative UM-GHRT funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health through the Global Health Frameworks Program (TW007496). Dr. Harlow directed a Fogarty International Center Training Grant for Research Training in Reproductive and Perinatal Health from to 1999 to 2006(TW01276). This training grant contributed to the development of human resources in reproductive health research in the U.S.-border region of Mexico in collaboration with Dr. Catalina Denman, El Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico. The program also collaborated with the Dr. Godfrey Woelk, Department of Community Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe in the development of their new Masters of Science Program in Biostatistics. In the context of this work, her trainees research has addressed gender-based violence in relation to risk of HIV/AIDS in South Africa; gynecologic morbidity, maternal morbidity and infant mortality in Northern Mexico; and neurobehavioral development among children of women working in production of cut-flowers for export in Ecuador.
Fogarty International Center
Selected Publications
Harlow, S.D., Mitchell, E.S., Crawford, S., Taffe, J., Nan, B., Little, R. for the ReSTAGE Collaboration. (2008). The ReSTAGE Collaboration: Defining Optimal Bleeding Criteria for the Onset of Early Menopausal Transition. Fertility and Sterility, 89, 129-140.
Harlow, S.D., Crawford, S., Dennerstein, L., Burger, H.G., Mitchell, E.S., Sowers, M.F. for the ReSTAGE Collaboration. (2007). Recommendations from a multi-study evaluation of proposed criteria for Staging Reproductive Aging. Climacteric, 10, 112-119.
Handal, A.J., Lozoff, B., Breihl, J., Harlow, S.D. (2007). Neurobehavioral Development in Children with Potential Exposure to Pesticides. Epidemiology, 18, 312-320.
Harlow, S.D. for the ReSTAGE Collaboration (in alphabetical order) Cain, K., Crawford, S., Dennerstein, L., Little, R., Mitchell, E.S., Nan, B., Randolph, J., Taffe, J., Yosef, M. (2006). Evaluation of Four Proposed Bleeding Criteria for the Onset of Late Menopausal Transition. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 91, 3432-3438.
Harlow, S.D., Campbell, O.M.R. (2004). Epidemiology of Menstrual Disorders in Developing Countries: A Review. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 111, 6-16.
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