Eileen Yam
Associate
Eileen Yam is an associate with the HIV and AIDS program at the Population Council. She is responsible for providing technical assistance and managing the implementation of evaluation studies and operations research in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and HIV integration; prevention of mother-to-child transmission; and reproductive health needs of vulnerable populations in Africa and Asia.
From 2004 to 2007, she served as regional program associate in the Reproductive Health program at the Population Council's Mexico office, where she conducted research on family planning, unsafe abortion, and HIV/STIs in the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Prior to rejoining the Population Council in 2012, she was a monitoring and evaluation manager for the Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) family planning project under Abt Associates, as well as a research and evaluation specialist in the population and social transitions program at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).
Her recent publications have appeared in International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Yam received a PhD in population, family, and reproductive health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also holds an MPH in maternal and child health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, and a BA in anthropology from Yale University.
Eileen Yam
Associate
Association between condom use and use of other contraceptive methods among female sex workers in Swaziland: A relationship-level analysis of condom and contraceptive use (abstract) (HTML)Yam,Eileen A.; Mnisi,Zandile; Sithole,Bheki; Kennedy,Caitlin E.; Kerrigan,Deanna; Tsui,Amy Ong; Baral,Stefan
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 40(5): 406-412
Publication date: 2013
Contraception and condom use among Bolivian female sex workers: Relationship-specific associations between disease prevention and family planning behaviors (abstract) (HTML)
Yam,Eileen A.; Tinajeros,Freddy; Revollo,Rita; Richmond,Kara; Kerrigan,Deanna; Garcia,Sandra G.
Health Care for Women International 34(3-4): 249-262
Publication date: 2013
Induced abortion, contraceptive use, and dual protection among female sex workers in Moscow, Russia (abstract) (HTML)
Decker,Michele R.; Yam,Eileen A.; Wirtz,Andrea L.; Baral,Stefan; Peryshkina,Alena; Mogilnyi,Vladmir; Beyrer,Chris
International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 120(1): 27-31
Publication date: 2013
Use of dual protection among female sex workers in Swaziland
Yam,Eileen A.; Mnisi,Zandile; Mabuza,X.; Kennedy,Caitlin E.; Kerrigan,Deanna; Tsui,Amy Ong; Baral,Stefan
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health In press
Publication date: 2013
Use of emergency contraceptive pills among female sex workers in Swaziland (abstract) (HTML)
Yam,Eileen A.; Mnisi,Zandile; Maziya,S.; Kennedy,Caitlin E.; Baral,Stefan
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care Published online ahead of print, 21 June
Publication date: 2013
The role of the Standard Days Method in modern family planning services in developing countries (abstract) (HTML)
Lundgren,Rebecka; Karra,Mihira V.; Yam,Eileen A.
European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care 17(4): 254-259
Publication date: 2012
The abortion debate in Mexico: Newspaper coverage and discourse, 2001-2003 (abstract) (PDF)
Vala-Haynes,Emily; Stephenson,Rob; Rochat,Roger; Yam,Eileen A.; Rosas,Lisa G.; Garcia,Sandra G.
Society, Biology and Human Affairs Advanced e-publication
Publication date: 2011
Women's experiences with legal abortion in Mexico City: A qualitative study (abstract)
van Dijk,Marieke G.; Arellano Mendoza,Luis Jorge; Arangure Peraza,Ana Gabriela; Toriz Prado,Aldo Alberto; Krumholz,Abigail; Yam,Eileen A.
Studies in Family Planning 42(3): 167-174
Publication date: 2011
Jamaican and Barbadian health care providers' knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding emergency contraceptive pills
(abstract) (HTML)
Yam,Eileen A.; Gordon-Strachan,Georgiana; McIntyre,Garth; Fletcher,Horace; Garcia,Sandra G.; Becker,Davida; Ezcurra,Enrique
International Family Planning Perspectives 33(4): 160-167
Publication date: 2007
Demonstrating public health at work: A demonstration project of congenital syphilis prevention efforts in Bolivia (abstract) (HTML)
Garcia,Sandra G.; Tinajeros,Freddy; Revollo,Rita; Yam,Eileen A.; Richmond,Kara; Diaz-Olavarrieta,Claudia; Grossman,Daniel
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 34(7): S37-S41
Publication date: 2007
Abortion opinion research in Latin America and the Caribbean: A review of the literature (abstract) (HTML)
Yam,Eileen A.; Dries-Daffner,Ingrid; Garcia,Sandra G.
Studies in Family Planning 37(4): 225-240
Publication date: 2006
Challenges accessing legal abortion after rape in Mexico City (abstract)
Lara,Diana K.; Garcia,Sandra G.; Ortiz,Olivia; Yam,Eileen A.
Gaceta Médica de México 142(S2): 85-89
Publication date: 2006
Emergency contraception in Honduras: Knowledge, attitudes, and practice among urban family planning clients (abstract) (HTML)
Garcia,Sandra G.; Lara,Diana K.; Landis,Sarah H.; Yam,Eileen A.; Pavón,Suyapa
Studies in Family Planning 37(3): 187-196
Publication date: 2006
'No party hat, no party': Successful condom use in sex work in Mexico and the Dominican Republic (abstract) (PDF) (HTML)
Garcia,Sandra G.; Yam,Eileen A.; Firestone,Michelle
Reproductive Health Matters 14(28): 53-62
Publication date: 2006
Understanding successful condom use among factory workers and students in Mexico and the Dominican Republic (abstract)
Goldman,Lisa; Richmond,Kara; Garcia,Sandra G.; Yam,Eileen A.; Becker,Davida
Gaceta Médica de México 142(S2): 117-127
Publication date: 2006
Young Mexicans' hopes and fears about abortion and abortion law: A qualitative study in two cities (abstract)
Tatum,Carrie; Garcia,Sandra G.; Yam,Eileen A.; Becker,Davida
Gaceta Médica de México 142(S2): 95-102
Publication date: 2006
Eileen Yam
Associate
Mexicans' fears and hopes about abortion and abortion lawPresentation at the American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, 12 December
Tatum,Carrie; Garcia,Sandra G.; Yam,Eileen A.; Becker,Davida
Publication date: 2005
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