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Janet Elise Rosenbaum PhD, AM

Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Baltimore, MD

Professional summary

Janet Rosenbaum (Ph.D. in Health Policy, Harvard University; 2008) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health. Prior to her Ph.D., she received an A.B. in Physics and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University. Rosenbaum applies new statistical methods to adolescent risk behavior prevention. She studies abstinence-only sex education, parent-adolescent communication about risk behaviors, and sexually-transmitted disease spread. Rosenbaum uses methods including matched sampling for causal inference and social networks. She has presented her research at the Federal Committee for Statistical Methodology, Society for Adolescent Medicine, American Public Health Association, American Statistical Association, and statistics conferences in Europe and the US. Rosenbaum's single-authored paper on adolescents' inconsistent reporting of their sexual experience and virginity pledge was published in t