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Center for Global Health Faculty

Amy Ong Tsui

Professor

Director, The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute of Population & Reproductive Health

Amy Ong Tsui

Academic Degrees

  • PhD
  • MA

Departmental Affiliation

Departmental Address

615 N. Wolfe Street, Room W4041 Baltimore, MD 21205

Contact Information

Phone:
443-287-3833
Fax:
410-955-0792
Link:
SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

Research interests include family planning, fertility, and related health issues in developing countries. My current research is on the effects of various family planning and health service delivery models on contraceptive, fertility, and sexual health outcomes in sub-Saharan African and other low-income countries

Keywords

Population; fertility; family planning, reproductive health

Honors and Awards

State of Illinois, House of Representatives, Certificate of Recognition, 1981

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Summer Fellow, 1980

Delta Omega (Public Health) Honor Society

Robert J. Lapham Award, Population Association of America, 1999

Bernard G. Greenberg Alumni Endowment Award, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004

Champion of Public Health, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2005

AMTRA Award, JHSPH, 2006-07

Golden Apple Award, JHSPH, 2009

Selected Publications

A. Blanc, A. Tsui, T. Croft, and J. Trevitt.  “Patterns and trends in adolescents’ contraceptive use and discontinuation in developing countries and comparisons with adult women.”  Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health 2009 June: 35(2): 63-71.

D. Becker, AC Klasse3n, MA Koenig, TA LaVeist, FL Sonenstein, AO Tsui. Women's perspectives on family planning service quality: an exploration of differences by race, ethnicity and language.  Perspect Sex Reprod Health 2009 Sep;41(3):158-65.

Pine Yeakey M, Muntifering C, Ramachandran D, Myint YM, Creanga AA, Tsui AO. The effect of contraceptive use on birth intervals: Results of a systematic literature review. Studies in Family Planning 40(3): 205-214, 2009.

F. Taulo, M. Berry, A. Tsui, B. Makanani, G. Kafulafula, Q. Li, C. Nkhoma, J. Kumwenda, N. Kumwenda, and T. Taha, “Fertility Intentions of HIV-1 Infected and Uninfected Women in Malawi: A Longitudinal Study”, AIDS and Behavior 13 (Suppl 1): 20-27, 2009.

M. Yeakey, E Chipeta, F Taulo and A Tsui, “The lived experience of Malawian women with obstetric fistula”, Culture, Health and Sexuality 11(5): 499-513, 2009.

D. Becker and A. Tsui, “Racial, Ethnic and Language Group Differences in Low-Income Women’s Reproductive Health Service Quality Perceptions and Service Preferences”, Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health 41(3): 158-165, 2009.

G. Kassie, D. Hailemariam, A. Tsui, "Patterns of knowledge and condom use among population groups: Results from the 2005 Ethiopian Behavioral Surveillance Surveys on HIV", BMC Public Health, Dec 31(8): 429, 2008.

A. Creanga, P. Roy, A. Tsui, “Characteristics of abortion service providers in two northern Indian states”, Contraception 78: 500–506, 2008.

I. Hoffman, FE Martinson, KA Powers, DA Chilongozi, ED Msiska, EI Kachipapa, CD Mphande, MC Hosseinipour, HC Chanza, R Stephenson, A Tsui, “The Year-Long Effect of HIV-Positive Test Results on Pregnancy Intentions, Contraceptive Use and Pregnancy Incidence among Malawian Women”, Journal of AIDS Apr 1;47(4):477-83, 2008.

L. Liu, S. Becker, S. Ahmed, A. Tsui, “Simple Approaches to Estimating Births Averted Due to Contraception at the National Level, Population Studies 62(2): 191-210, 2008

A. Tsui, A. Creanga, S. Ahmed, “The Role of Delayed Childbearing in the Prevention of Obstetric Fistulas”, International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Vol 99 S1: S98-S107, 2007.

Andreea A Creanga; Heather M Bradley; Aklilu Kidanu; Yilma Melkamu; Amy O Tsui, “Does the delivery of integrated family planning and HIV/AIDS services influence community-based workers' client loads in Ethiopia?”, Health Policy and Planning 2007; doi: 10.1093/heapol/czm034

H. Bradley, A. Bedada, A. Kidanu, H. Brahmbhatt, D. Gillespie, and A. Tsui, “HIV and family planning service integration and voluntary HIV counseling and testing client composition in Ethiopia”, AIDS Care 20(1): 61-71, 2008.

T. Taha, N. Kumwenda, G. Kafulafula, B. Makanani, C. Nkhoma, S. Chen, A. Tsui, and D Hoover, “Intermittent Intravaginal Antibiotic Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis in HIV-Uninfected and –Infected Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial.”  PLoS Clinical Trials, 2007 Feb 23;2(2): Epub ahead of print.

A. Creanga, R. Acharya, S. Ahmed and A. Tsui, “Contraceptive Discontinuation, Failure and Subsequent Abortions in Romania: 1994-1999”, Studies in Family Planning 38(1): 23-34, 2007.

D. Gillespie, S. Ahmed, A. Tsui, S. Radloff, “Unwanted Fertility among the Poor: An Inequity?”, Bulletin of the WHO 85: 100-107, 2007.

H. Bradley, A. Bedade, H. Brahmbhatt, A. Kidanu, D. Gillespie and A. Tsui, “Educational Attainment and HIV Status among Ethiopian Voluntary Counseling and Testing Clients”, AIDS and Behavior 2006 November 2 (Epub ahead of print).

J. Barden-O’Fallon, C. Suchindran and A. Tsui, “Validating the Self-reported Fertility Status of Rural Malawian Women”, American Journal of Human Biology 18(2):214-218, 2006.

J. Barden-O’Fallon, G. Angeles, and A. Tsui, “A Profile of Primary Health Care Providers in Three Developing Countries: Are There Imbalances in the Distribution of the Labor Force?”, Health Policy and Planning 21(2): 80-90, 2006.

A. Blanc and A. Tsui, “Dilemma of Past Success:  Insiders’ Views on the Future of the International Family Planning Movement”, Studies in Family Planning 36(4): 263-276, 2005.

      
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