APARNA SUNDARAM Guttmacher Institute 125 Maiden Lane, 7 th Floor New York, NY 10038 (W) 212-248-1111 EXT. 2290 asundaram@guttmacher.org Education Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Sociology, Concentration: Demography & Development M.A. University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Sociology, Concentration: Demography M.A. Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, India, Major: Sociology 1997 B.A. Miranda House, Delhi University, India, Major: Sociology (Honors) 1995 Honors and Awards James Longest Memorial Dissertation Award, University of Maryland 2003-2004 William and Flora Hewlett Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland 2002-2003 Population Policy Communication Fellowship, Population Reference Bureau 2002-2003 Blue Ribbon Poster Award, Population Association of America 2001 William and Flora Hewlett Fellowship, University of Maryland 1998-2001 Center for Advanced Studies Fellowship, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi 1995-1997 University Present Position Senior Research Associate. Guttmacher Institute. Research Division Research Support: 2005 2000 Co- Co- DFID (UK), Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and Packard Foundation Study of Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Incidence in India This project will estimate the abortion incidence in India, through the administration of two surveys, and using indirect estimation techniques on the data collected from these surveys. DFID (UK), Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Govt. of the Netherlands, and NORAD, Govt. of Norway Study of Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Incidence in Nepal This project will estimate the abortion incidence in Nepal, through the administration of two surveys, and using indirect estimation techniques on the data collected from these surveys. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Measuring and Explaining Unintended Pregnancy in the United States This project will compute and analyze the contraceptive failure rates of all contraceptive methods used in the United States. The project requires secondary 01/2014-Present 06/2013-Present 09/2011-Present
analysis of the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) data using advanced statistical techniques. Co- Consortium for Unsafe Abortion in Africa: DFID, Govt. of the United Kingdom, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Govt. of the Netherlands Ghana: KAP Survey of Health Providers Relating to the Provision of CAC in Ghana The aim of this project is to assess the role of policy interventions for improving comprehensive abortion care services. The project requires a survey of health care providers in Ghana and examines their knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) in the area of comprehensive abortion care (CAC). By comparing providers in different parts of the country, and to assess if there has been any change in the KAP of physicians who were exposed to the policy interventions Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Netherlands, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA, Govt. of Sweden), and the Packard Foundation Uganda: Economic and Social Costs of Unsafe Abortion This project aims to do a survey of post-abortion patients in Uganda. This will help us understand how unsafe abortion affects individual and household economic well-being; what unsafe abortion costs the Ugandan government; and the costs and benefits of increasing contraceptive services in bringing down unsafe abortion. 01/2011-12/2014 07/2009 09/2013 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of the Netherlands 07/2009 12/2012 Ghana: Unequal Access to Safe Abortion This project aims to examine social disparities in access to safe abortion in Ghana. In particular examines the conditions under which different social groups of Ghanaian women decide to have an abortion, and the decision making process which leads them to choose safe-abortion versus traditional and unsafe methods of abortion. In addition the project examines the health consequences of choosing unsafe abortion. The World Bank Adding It Up: Uganda, Ethiopia, and Burkina Faso 12/2008 12/2011 This project aims to build the evidence base demonstrating the broad benefits of investments in sexual and reproductive health services in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Burkina Faso. The project assesses the dollar costs and benefits of providing contraceptive and sexual and reproductive health services. Previous Positions Research Analyst. American Institutes for Research. Division: Federal Statistics Program. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics 08/2004-11/2008 2
Client: Marilyn Seastrom, Chief Statistician, Office of the Deputy Commissioner Statistical Standards Program Coinvestigator Manager Reviewer Survey on school principals Exploratory project to develop a new NCES survey on school principals. Responsibilities included developing a sampling frame for the survey and conducting a literature review to justify the need for this survey. Performance assessment rating tool Project required the development of an Access database for tracking non Department of Education use of all NCES datasets and data products to meet the Office of Management and Budget s (OMB) requirement for a Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART). High school gender gap in math and science Project examined the high school gender gap in math and science performance National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) dataset. The research question was examined using change-over-time fixed and random-effects models. The final draft of this paper was submitted to the government. Non-response bias analysis at NCES Project monitored the non-response bias analysis efforts at NCES in order to develop a meta-dataset with data on response rates, the methods used in the bias analysis, and the results of the bias analysis. The results of this project were presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association and at a seminar of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, and final draft was submitted to the government. How well do school lunch data measure poverty? Project examined whether survey data obtained on use of the school lunch program are a good indicator of poverty in the nation. The research question required statistical analyses of various NCES datasets such as CCD, NELS, ELS, NHES, and NAEP. The results of this project were presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association and the final draft of the paper was submitted to the government. Technical review Project required examining NCES reports and publications for accuracy of statistical techniques, and consistency with NCES established statistical standards on a range of statistical and survey issues such as response rates and survey design. Administrative Assisted with the management of the Statistical Standards Project. Project was worth over a million dollars. Responsibilities included assisting with budgets, hiring, training, and supervising staff. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics Client: Thomas Snyder, Project Officer, ECICSD 06/2008-11/ 2008 04/2007 11/ 2008 06/2006-12/2006 01/2006 11/2006 01/2005 12/2007 08/2004-11/2008 08/2004 05/2005 3
Section leader Digest of Education Statistics Led the work on the chapters on postsecondary education and international comparisons of education. Updated all tables in the chapter on international comparisons on education and the tables on survey of earned doctorates in the chapter on postsecondary education. Also ensured that the tables in both chapters met NCES specified statistical standards. These updates were published as a part of Digest 2004. Administrative Assisted with hiring, training, and supervising staff. Graduate student. Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park 08/1998 12/2005 Completed doctoral dissertation on the life course and marriage timing in Indonesia. This research analyzed the first and second waves of the Indonesian Family Life Survey data (IFLS) and the 1991 Indonesian Census Data using logistic regressions and hierarchical linear models (HLM). Completed M.A. thesis on the gender differences in literacy in India. A paper based on this thesis has been published in World Development. This paper analyzed the 1991 Indian Census District Data and used spatial auto-correlation techniques. Instructor/Professor for courses Introduction to Sociology (Fall 2003) and Social Demography (Summer 2002). Teaching assistant for courses Demographic Techniques (Prof. Joan Kahn. Spring 2004), Social Demography (Prof. Rebeca Wong. Spring 2002) and Social Statistics (Prof. Laurie DeRose. Fall 2001). Research assistant to Prof. Reeve Vanneman. In this capacity I assisted with making the 1991 Indian Census District Data available for public use. This project required extensive SAS programming for the purposes of cleaning the data, creating and selecting variables, and conversion of data into machine readable ASCII form. Other positions Summer International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC 2003 Internships Project: Impacts of investment in women s education on gender equality s: Dr. Rohini Pande and Dr. Anju Malhotra World Bank, Washington, DC 1999 Project: Voices of the poor : Dr. Deepa Narayan 4
Other Gujarat Institute for Development Research, India 1998 Internships Project: ICPD+5: Impact of the International Conference on Population and Development on India : Dr. Leela Visaria Independent Research Center for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, India 1997 Project: Social science and immunization : Prof. Veena Das Collaborated with colleagues at the University of Maryland and the U.S. Census Bureau to analyze the Human Development Profile of India (HDPI) data and the 1991 Indian Census District Data to examine the role of economic development in narrowing the gender gap in school enrollment in India. Analysis uses a 3- level HLM model. This paper was presented at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association. Professional Memberships Current Member, Union for African Population Studies Current Member, American Sociological Association Current Member, Population Association of America Current Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations 2010-2011 Member, American Public Health Association 2005-2008 Member, American Educational Research Association 2006-2007 Member, American Statistical Association Professional Presentations Puri, Mahesh, Rubina Hussain, Susheela Singh, Anand Tamang, Aparna Sundaram, Marjorie Crowell. 2015. Abortion Incidence and Unintended Pregnancy in Nepal. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, San Diego, CA. Sundaram, Aparna, Fatima Juarez, Clement Ahiadeke, Akinrinola Bankole, and Nakeisha Blades (2014). The Impact of Ghana s R3M program on the Provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care Services. Invited Presentation at IPAS, North Carolina and Worldwide, via a webinar. Sundaram, Aparna, Fatima Juarez, Clement Ahiadeke, Akinrinola Bankole, Nakeisha Blades, and Susheela Singh. (2013). The Impact of Ghana s R3M program on the Provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care Services. Presented at the 27 th international conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Busan, South Korea. Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, Leo Amanya, Tsuyoshi Onda, Charles Kiggundu, and Florence Mirembe. (2013). Household Level Costs of Unsafe Abortions Among PAC Patients in Uganda. Presented at the 27 th international conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Busan, South Korea. Sundaram, Aparna, Fatima Juarez, Clement Ahiadeke, Akinrinola Bankole, Nakeisha Blades, and Susheela Singh. (2013). 5
The Impact of Ghana s R3M program on the Provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care Services. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA. Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Leo Amanya, Tsuyoshi Onda, Charles Kiggundu, and Florence Mirembe. (2013). Household Level Costs of Unsafe Abortions Among PAC Patients in Uganda. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA. Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, Charles Kiggundu, Florence Mirembe, and Leo Amanya. (2012). Documenting the Economic Costs of Unsafe Abortions Among PAC Patients in Uganda. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA. Sundaram, Aparna, Fatima Juarez, Akinrinola Bankole, and Susheela Singh. (2011). Abortion Seeking Behavior Among Ghanaian Women. Presented at the Sixth African Population Conference, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Vlassoff, Michael, Aparna Sundaram, Danielle Belemsaga, Lisa Remez, and Akinrinola Bankole. (2011). Adding it Up: The Costs and Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Women in Burkina Faso. Presented at the Bill and Melinda Gates International Conference on Family Planning, Dakar, Senegal. Sundaram, Aparna, and Fatima Juarez. (2011). Abortion Seeking Behavior Among Ghanaian Women: An Analysis of the 2007 Ghana Maternal Health Survey. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC Vlassoff, Michael, Charles Kiggundu, Frederick Mugisha, Aparna Sundaram, and Akinrinola Bankole. (2010). Documenting the Economic Costs of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda. Presented at the annual meetings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations, Mexico City, Mexico Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Frederick Mugisha, Lisa Remez, Akinrinola Bankole. (2010). The Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Ugandan Women. Invited presentation at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Lisa Remez, and Akinrinola Bankole. (2009). Adding it Up: The Costs and Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Ethiopian Women. Presented at the Bill and Melinda Gates International Conference on Family Planning: Research and Best Practices, Kampala, Uganda Michael Vlassoff, Aparna Sundaram, Frederick Mugisha, Lisa Remez, and Akinrinola Bankole. (2009). The Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Women in Uganda. Presented at the Bill and Melinda Gates International Conference on Family Planning: Research and Best Practices, Kampala, Uganda Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Akinrinola Bankole, and Frederick Mugisha. (2009). The Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Women in Uganda. Presented at the annual meetings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Populations, Marrakech, Morocco Sundaram, Aparna, Sonya Rastogi, and Reeve Vanneman (2008). Development and Gender Inequality: School enrollment in India. Invited presentation at the Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY Sundaram, Aparna, Sonya Rastogi, and Reeve Vanneman. (2008). Development and Gender Inequality: School Enrollment in India. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA Seastrom, Marilyn, Jared Tank, and Aparna Sundaram. (2006). Monitoring Survey Response Rates and Monitoring Bias in a Federal Statistical Agency. Presented at the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, Statistical Policy Seminar, Washington, DC 6
Seastrom, Marilyn, Jared Tank, and Aparna Sundaram. (2006). Monitoring Survey Response Rates and Monitoring Bias in a Federal Statistical Agency. Presented at the Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Seattle, WA Sundaram, Aparna, Kevin Bromer, and Janine Emerson. (2006). How Well do Data on Free and Reduced Price Lunch Measure Poverty? Presented at the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA Sundaram, Aparna. (2006). Life Course and Marriage Timing in Indonesia. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA Rastogi, Sonya, Aparna Sundaram, and Reeve Vanneman. (2004). Impact of Economic Development on the Gender Inequality in School Enrollment in India: A Hierarchical Analysis. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Boston, MA Sundaram, Aparna. (2003). Indian Women and Income Control: Determinants, Trends, and Strategies. Presented at the Policy Fellows Program of the Population Reference Bureau, Minneapolis, MN Sundaram, Aparna and Reeve Vanneman. (2001). Gender Differentials in Literacy in India. Presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC Publications Sundaram, Aparna, Fatima Juarez, Clement Ahiadeke, Akinrinola Bankole, and Nakeisha Blades. The Impact of Ghana s R3M Program on the Provision of Safe Abortions and Postabortion Care. Forthcoming at Health Policy and Planning. (Published online Sep. 2014 at: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/09/25/heapol.czu105.short) Vlassoff, Michael, Frederick Mugisha, Aparna Sundaram, Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, Leo Amanya. (2014). The Health System Cost of Post-Abortion Care in Uganda. Health Policy and Planning.29(1):56-66 (Available online at: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/1/56.full.pdf?etoc) Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Frederick Mugisha, Akinrinola Bankole, Susheela Singh, Leo Amanya, and Tsuyoshi Onda. (2013). Documenting the Individual and Household Level Cost of Unsafe Abortion in Uganda. International Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health. 39(4):174-184 (Available online at: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3917413.pdf) Sundaram, Aparna, Fatima Juarez, Akinrinola Bankole, and Susheela Singh. (2012). Abortion Seeking Behavior Among Ghanaian Women: An Analysis of the data from the Ghana Maternal Health Survey. Studies in Family Planning. 43(4): 273-286. Vlassoff, Michael, Aparna Sundaram, Danielle Belemsaga, Lisa Remez, and Akinrinola Bankole. (2011). Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Women in Burkina Faso. Research in Brief. Guttmacher Institute. (Available online at: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/contraception-burkina-faso-fr.pdf) Sundaram, Aparna, Michael Vlassoff, Lisa Remez, Akinrinola Bankole, and Yirgu Gebrehiwot. (2010). Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Ethiopian Women. Research in Brief. Guttmacher Institute. (Available online at: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib-contraceptive-needs-ethiopia.pdf) Vlassoff, Michael, Aparna Sundaram, Frederick Mugisha, Lisa Remez, and Akinrinola Bankole. (2009). Benefits of 7
Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Ugandan Women. Research in Brief. Guttmacher Institute. (Available online at: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_contraceptive-needs-uganda.pdf) Seastrom, Marilyn, Jared Tank, and Aparna Sundaram. (2009). Monitoring Survey Response Rates and Monitoring Bias in a Federal Statistical Agency. In JSM Proceedings. Alexandria, VA, American Statistical Association. Sundaram, Aparna, and Reeve Vanneman. (2008). Gender Differentials in Literacy in India: The Intriguing Relationship with Women s Labor Force Participation. World Development. 36(1): 128-143. Professional Services Reviewer Journal World Development 2011-2014 Journal Global Public Health 2011-2014 Journal Studies in Family Planning 2013 Journal Contraception 2012 Journal Social Forces 2008-2012 Journal Journal of Public Health Policy 2011 Journal Demography 2009 Member Research Assistant Hiring Committee, Guttmacher Institute 2012 Member Statistics and Methods Training Committee, American Inst. For Research 2008 Manager Restricted-Use-Data License, American Inst. For Research 2006-2008 Chair Session on Child Work and Schooling at the annual meetings of the Population 2005 Association of America, Philadelphia, PA Member Demography Senior Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Sociology, 2002 University of Maryland, College Park Member Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Sociology, University of Maryland, 1999 College Park 8