Center for Global Health Faculty

Professor

Academic Degrees

• PhD

Departmental Affiliation

• Name:

  Population, Family and Reproductive Health

  Affiliation Type:

  Primary

• Name:

  International Health

  Affiliation Type:

  Joint

Departmental Address

Contact Information

Email:

sbecker+jhsph.edu

Phone:

410-955-4485

Fax:

410-955-0792

Research and Professional Experience

Interested in reproductive health interventions that involve couples, esp via experimental designs. This includes involving men (partners) in post-abortion contraceptive counseling, in STD and HIV counseling and testing, in antenatal care education, and in counseling about contraceptive sterilization.

Also interested in estimation of fertility and mortality in developing countries and in formal demography. I give lectures on population in general and the problem of rapid population growth with an historical and ecological perspective.

Keywords

Population and Family Health Sciences, Couples and reproductive health; reproductive health; data collection; developing countries; demographic methods

Honors and Awards

Page boy, Michigan House of Representatives, Lansing, Michigan, 1967. Page boy, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 1968. Grass Roots Talent Search Scholarship, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1968, 1969. David Blair, McLaughlin Writing Competition Second Prize: "Police Disarmament: a Possibility", 1971. Ford Foundation Training Fellowship in Demography, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1973-74. National Institute of Child Health and Development, Traineeship, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1974-76.

Selected Publications

Viswanathan K, Becker S, Peters D, et al. "Infant and Underfive Mortality in Afghanistan:Current Estimates and Limitations. (In press, Bulletin of World Health Organization).

Amin R, Shah NM, and S Becker. "Socio-economic factors differentiating maternal and child health-seeking behavior in rural Bangladesh (in press, International Journal for Equity in Health).

Becker S,. Book review of Global Family Planning Revolution (by Warren Robinson) Population Studies 63(2).

Becker, S, Mlay R,, Schwandt HM, et al. "Comparing Couples' and Individual Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV at Antenatal Clinics in Tanzania: A Randomized Trial". AIDS Behav. 2009 Sep 10.

Becker S, Bazant ES, and C Meyers.  (2008). "Couples counseling at an abortion clinic: a pilot study". Constraception 78: 424-31.

Mlay R, Lugina H, and S Becker. (2008). "Souples Counseling and Testing for HIV at Antenatal Clinics: Views from Men, Women and Couselors". AIDS Care 30 (3):356-60.

Becker S, and Gray R. (2008). "Source of new infections in generalized HIV epidemics. The Lancet. (Letter to the editor): 372 (9646): 1299-300.

Lui L, Becker S, Tsui A, et al. (2008). "Three methods of estimating births averted nationally by contraception". Population Studies 62(2): 191-210.

Chan GJ, Moulton LH, BeckerS, et al. (2007).  "Non-specific effects of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination on child mortality in Cebu, The Philippines. IJE 36(5O): 1022-29.

Edwards A, Ernst P, Taylor C, et al. (2007) "Examinining the evidence of under-five mortality reduction in a community-based programme in Gaza, Mozambique". Transations of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.  101(8):814-22.

Mullany BC, Becker S, Hindin MJ. The impact of including husbands in antenatal health education services on maternal health practices in urban Nepal. Health Education Research, 7/2006.

Becker, S. Hossain, M.B. and Thomson, E. “Disagreement in spousal reports of current contraceptive use in Sub-Saharan Africa” J. Biosoc Sci 38:779-796, 2006.

Schempf, A and Becker S. 2006. On the application of decomposition methods. Letter. Am. J Pub Health 96(5):856-61.

Mullany BC Hindin MJ, Becker S. Can women's autonomy impede male involvement in pregnancy health in Kathmandu, Nepal? Social Science & Medicine, 2005, 61(9):1993-2006.

Mlay, R, Lugina, H. and S. Becker. “Couple Counseling and Testing for HIV at Antenatal Clinics: Views from Men, Women and Counselors” (revision submitted to AIDS Care)

Becker, S. and Suliman, E. “Have infant and child mortality increased in West Africa?” (Under revision for Demography)

Becker, S. and Sutradhar, S. (2007) Fertility intentions: Are the undecided more like those who want more or want no more children? Journal of Biosocial Science 39 (1): 137-45.  

Becker, S., Fonseca-Becker, F, Schenck-Yglesias, C. 2006. Husbands’ and wives’ reports of women’s decision-making power in Western Guatemala and their effects on preventive health behaviors Social Science and Medicine 62(9):2313-26.

Diop-Sidibé, N, Campbell, J.C., and Becker, S.. Domestic Violence Against Women in Egypt: Wife-beating and Health outcomes. Social Science and Medicine. 62(5): 1260-77, 2006.

Beenhakker, B., Becker, S., Blumenthal, P Hires, S., Molano di Targiana, N. and Higgins, G. “Who accompanies women for abortions: A pilot study in Baltimore City.” Contraception 69(5):419-23, 2004.

Becker, S. “Assessing the use of profiling in searches bylaw enforcement personnel”. Journal of Criminal Justice 23:183-193, 2004.

Becker S., and Sidibe, N. “Calendar use and heaping in postpartum variable in the Demographic and Health Surveys.” Studies in Family Planning 34(2):127-132, 2003.

Becker, S., Rutstein, S., and Labbok, M. “Estimation of births averted due to breastfeeding and increases inlevels of contraception needed to substitute for breastfeeding.” Joural of Biosocial Sciences 35:559-574, 2003.

Becker, S. and Costenbader, E. "Husbands' and wives' reports of contraceptive use" Studies in Family Planning, 2001;32(2):111-129.

Becker, S. and Ahmed, S. "Dynamics of contraceptive use and breastfeeding during the postpartum period in Peru and Indonesia", Population Studies, 2001;55:165-179.

Arifeen, S. Black, R.E, Antelman, G, Baqui B., Caulfield L. and S. Becker. "Exclusive breastfeeding reduces acute respiratory infection and diarrhea deaths among infants in Dhaka slums:, Pediatrics, 2001;108(4):1-8.

Lindley, A., R. Gray, A. Herman and S. Becker. "Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and infant ponderal index at birth in the Swedish Medical Birth Register", 1991-92. American Journal of Public Health, 2000;90(3):420-3.

Lindley, A., S. Becker, R. Gray, and A. Herman. "The effect of continuing or stopping smoking during pregnancy on infant birth weight, crown-heel length, head circumference, ponderal index and brain-body weight ratio". American Journal of Epidemiology, 2000;152(3):219-25.

Becker, Stan. "Measuring unmet need: Wives, Husbands and/or couples" International Family Planning Perspectives, 1999;25(4):172-180.

Becker, Stan and Shigui Weng. "Seasonal patterns of deaths in Matlab, Bangladesh" International Journal of Epidemiology, 1998;27:814-823.

Becker, Stan and J. Courtland Robinson. "Reproductive Health Care: Services Oriented to Couples", International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 1998;46(12):1587-1598.

Becker, Stan. "Measuring unmet need: Wives, Husbands and/or couples", International Family Planning Perspectives, 1999;25(4):172-180. Amin, R., S. Becker and A. Bayes. "NGO-promoted microcredit programs and women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence", The Journal of Developing Areas Winter. 1998:221-236.

Yoon, PW, Black, RE, Moutlon, LH and Becker, S. "The effect of malnutrition on the risk of diarrhea and respiratory mortality in children under two years of age in Cebu, The Philippines". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1997;65:1070-7. Becker, Stan and Kiros Behane. "A meta-analysis of 61 sperm count studies revisited" Fertility and Sterility, 1997;67(6):1103-1108.

Lasee, Ashraf and S. Becker. "Husband-Wife Communication on Family Planning and Couple's Current Contraceptive Use in Kenya". International Family Planning Perspectives, 1997;23(1):15-20.

Becker, Stan and Robert E. Black. "A Model of Child Morbidity, Mortality and Health", Interventions Population and Development Review, 1996;22(3):431-456.

Becker, Stan. "Couples and Reproductive Health: A review of couple studies" Studies in Family Planning, 1996;27(6):291-306.

Ricci, J. and Becker, S. "Risk factors for wasting and stunting among children in Metro Cebu, The Philippines". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1996;63:966-75. Becker, S, Feyisetan K, Makinwa-Adebusoye, P. "The Effect of sex of interviewer on quality of data in a Nigerian family planning questionnaire: Results of a pretest." Studies in Family Planning, 1995;20(4):233-240.

Yoon, PW, Black, RE, Moutlon, LH and Becker, S. "The effect of not breastfeeding on the risk of diarrhea and respiratory mortality in children under two years of age in Cebu, The Philippines." American Journal of Epidemiology, 1995;143:11 1142-1148.