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Personal profile
About
Hilary Schwandt earned her BS in Biochemistry from California Polytechnic State University in 2002. After graduating from Calpoly she lived in Jamaica for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She then earned her master’s degree in 2006 and her doctoral degree in 2009 from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Hilary’s doctoral dissertation was on unsafe abortion in Ghana and included a qualitative study on the pathways to abortion, a comparison of incomplete pregnancy patients and a randomized, noninferiority trial of group vs. individual family planning counseling. Her main areas of research interest are gender and reproductive health.
Just prior to joining Fairhaven College, Hilary was working in the research division at the Center for Communication Programs in Baltimore, Maryland. At the Center for Communication Programs she was the technical monitoring and evaluation advisor for numerous projects, such as the Go Girls Initiative! – a project that aimed to reduce adolescent girls’ vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique; the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative – a project that aimed to reduce the barriers to family planning use among the urban poor; a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission project in Ethiopia; and a malaria prevention during pregnancy project in Zambia.
Just prior to joining Fairhaven College, Hilary was working in the research division at the Center for Communication Programs in Baltimore, Maryland. At the Center for Communication Programs she was the technical monitoring and evaluation advisor for numerous projects, such as the Go Girls Initiative! – a project that aimed to reduce adolescent girls’ vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Malawi, and Mozambique; the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative – a project that aimed to reduce the barriers to family planning use among the urban poor; a prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission project in Ethiopia; and a malaria prevention during pregnancy project in Zambia.
Contact Information
Phone: 360-650-2948
Office: Fairhaven 334
Office: Fairhaven 334
Related documents
Research Interests
- Population health, such as: infectious disease, nutrition, and reproductive health
Disciplines
- Maternal and Child Health
- Women's Health
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Family planning demand generation in Rwanda: Government efforts at the national and community level impact interpersonal communication and family norms
Corey, J., Schwandt, H., Boulware, A., Herrera, A., Hudler, E., Imbabazi, C., King, I., Linus, J., Manzi, I., Merrit, M., Mezier, L., Miller, A., Morris, H., Musemakweli, D., Musekura, U., Mutuyimana, D., Ntakarutimana, C., Patel, N., Scanteianu, A. & Shemeza, B. E. & 5 others, , Apr 2022, In: PLoS ONE. 17, 4 April, e0266520.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“She is courageous because she does not care what people think about her…”: attitudes toward adolescent contraception use among Rwandan family planning providers and adult female modern contraceptive users
Schwandt, H., Boulware, A., Corey, J., Herrera, A., Hudler, E., Imbabazi, C., King, I., Linus, J., Manzi, I., Merritt, M., Mezier, L., Miller, A., Morris, H., Musemakweli, D., Musekura, U., Mutuyimana, D., Ntakarutimana, C., Patel, N., Scanteianu, A. & Shemeza, B. E. & 5 others, , Dec 2022, In: Reproductive Health. 19, 1, 204.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“…the availability of contraceptives is everywhere.”: coordinated and integrated public family planning service delivery in Rwanda
Scanteianu, A., Schwandt, H. M., Boulware, A., Corey, J., Herrera, A., Hudler, E., Imbabazi, C., King, I., Linus, J., Manzi, I., Merritt, M., Mezier, L., Miller, A., Morris, H., Musemakweli, D., Musekura, U., Mutuyimana, D., Ntakarutimana, C., Patel, N. & Shemeza, B. E. & 5 others, , Dec 2022, In: Reproductive Health. 19, 1, 22.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An examination of the barriers to and benefits from collaborative couple contraceptive use in Rwanda
Schwandt, H., Boulware, A., Corey, J., Herrera, A., Hudler, E., Imbabazi, C., King, I., Linus, J., Manzi, I., Merritt, M., Mezier, L., Miller, A., Morris, H., Musemakweli, D., Musekura, U., Mutuyimana, D., Ntakarutimana, C., Patel, N., Scanteianu, A. & Shemeza, B. E. & 6 others, , Dec 2021, In: Reproductive Health. 18, 1, 82.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Family planning providers and contraceptive users in Rwanda employ strategies to prevent discontinuation
Schwandt, H., Boulware, A., Corey, J., Herrera, A., Hudler, E., Imbabazi, C., King, I., Linus, J., Manzi, I., Merritt, M., Mezier, L., Miller, A., Morris, H., Musemakweli, D., Musekura, U., Mutuyimana, D., Ntakarutimana, C., Patel, N., Scanteianu, A. & Shemeza, B. E. & 5 others, , Dec 2021, In: BMC Women's Health. 21, 1, 361.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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