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Research Overview
I am a medical anthropologist with research interests in human reproduction, ecology, and ethnomedicine. My major research interests center on sexual and reproductive health issues among adolescents and young adults broadly constructed to include the related issues of gender, relationship violence, child abuse, substance use, and other risk-taking behaviors. I have done research on teenage pregnancy and parenting among Latinas in East Los Angeles, male involvement in reproductive health in the Philippines, and the fertility effects of warfare among the Waorani of Amazonian Ecuador.
My most recent research is funded by the Centers for Disease Control (10/03 - 9/08) and addresses the social context of sexual behavior, relationships, and communication patterns among African American and Puerto Rican young adults (18-25) in Hartford, CT and Philadelphia, PA. The qualitative-quantitative method mix will provide a grounded understanding of these topics from the perspective of the young people who will be targeted for a sexual risk reduction intervention promoting the use of barrier contraceptives. A second project is an exploratory study of sex scholars (high school and university students who have sex to earn money for tuition and school expenses) in Bohol, Philippines in collaboration with the University of Bohol.
Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993 (anthropology)
Dr.P.H., University of California-Los Angeles, 1988
MPH, University of California-Los Angeles, 1981
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1977 (anthropology)
B.A., University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, 1973 (anthropology)
Featured Publications
Erickson, Pamela I. 1998. Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
Erickson, Pamela I. The Role of Romantic Love in Sexual Initiation and the Transition to Parenthood among Immigrant and U.S.-Born Latino Youth in East Los Angeles, chapter in Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow (Eds.), Modern Loves: Romantic Courtship, Companionate Marriage, and the Political Economy of Emotion. University of Michigan Press. (In Press)
Erickson, Pamela I. Revenge, Bride Capture, and Gender Strategies for Survival among the Waorani, chapter in Stephen J. Beckerman and Paul Valentine (Eds.), Revenge in Amazonia. University Press of Florida. (In Press)
Singer, Merrill, Pamela I. Erickson, Louise Badiane, Rosemary Diaz, Dugeidy Ortiz, Traci Abraham, and Anna Marie Nicolaysen. Syndemics, Sex, and the City. Social Science and Medicine. (In Press)
Kaplan, Celia P., Merrill Eisenberg, Pamela I. Erickson, Lori Crane, and Susan Duffey 2005. Barriers to Breast Abnormality Follow-up: Minority, Low-Income Patients' and their Providers’ Views. Ethnicity and Disease 15(4):720-726.
Kaplan, Celia P., Pamela I. Erickson, and María Juarez-Reyes 2002. Acculturation, Gender Role Orientation, and Reproductive Risk-Taking Behavior among Latina Adolescent Family Planning Clients. Journal of Adolescent Research 17(2):103-122.
Kaplan, Celia P., Pamela I. Erickson, Susan L, Stewart, and Lori A. Crane 2001. Young Latinas and Abortion: The Role of Cultural Factors, Reproductive Behavior, and Alternative Roles to Motherhood. Health Care for Women International 22(7):667-689.
Erickson, Pamela I. and Celia P. Kaplan 2000. Maximizing Qualitative Responses About Smoking in Structured Interviews. Qualitative Health Research 10(6):829-840.
Erickson, Pamela I. 1998-99. Cultural Factors Affecting the Negotiation of First Sexual Intercourse among Latina Adolescent Mothers, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 18(1): 121-137.
Erickson, Pamela I. 1996. Contraceptive Methods: Do Hispanic Adolescents and Their Family Planning Care Providers Think about Contraceptive Methods the Same Way? Medical Anthropology 17(1): 65-82, 1996.
Erickson, Pamela I., Roshan Bastani, Annette E. Maxwell, Alfred C. Marcus, Frank J. Capell, and Kang X. Yan 1995. The Prevalence of Anal Sex among Heterosexuals in California and Its Relationship to Other AIDS Risk Behaviors. AIDS Education and Prevention, 7(6): 477-493.
Erickson, Pamela I. 1994. Lessons from a Repeat Pregnancy Prevention Program for Hispanic Teen Mothers in East Los Angeles. Family Planning Perspectives, 26(4): 174-178.
Erickson, Pamela I. and Andrea J. Rapkin 1991. Unwanted Sexual Experiences among Middle and High School Students. Journal of Adolescent Health Care 12(4): 319_325.
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