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Dr. Fedor Amador is a clinical associate professor and program director for Health, teaching courses on Environmental Health, Culture and Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Research Methods and Evaluation, Health Behavioral Theories, and Child and Adolescent Health and Well-being. Her teaching is grounded in a commitment to equity, inclusion, and student-centered learning. Whether in the classroom or online, she aims to provide transformative educational experiences that foster critical thinking, data literacy, and a deep understanding of how structural factors produce health inequities.
Dr. Fedor Amador's research focuses on sexual and reproductive health with an emphasis on how women fare within relationships and how gender inequality, at various levels (i.e. interpersonal relationship dynamics, community level norms, etc.), affects women's ability to take protective measures against undesired outcomes and to remain autonomous in their sexual and reproductive health choices. For example, one line of research is related to teenage pregnancy and looks at how gender inequality, gendered behavioral norms and gendered power dynamics affect the risk of teenage pregnancy in Colombia. A second line of research focuses on HIV prevention in both Malawi and the United States, and has focused on topics such as how level of trust in healthcare providers can affect PrEP uptake for racial & ethnic minority groups; and how HIV testing and counseling might affect relationship dynamics, intimate partner violence, subsequent risky sexual behavior, and even attitudes towards women's rights.
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For a full list of publications, see:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OZ8lZ3YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
ARTICLES
Braksmajer, A. ¶, Fedor, T. M. ¶, Chen, S.-R., Corales, R., Holt, S., Valenti, W., & James M. McMahon, J. M. 2018. Willingness to take PrEP for HIV prevention: The combined effects of race/ethnicity and physician trust. (¶ These authors contributed equally to this work). AIDS Education and Prevention, 30(1), 1-12.
DOI: 10.1521/aeap.2018.30.1.1
McMahon, J. M., Chimenti, R., Fedor, T., Trabold, N., Mittal, M., & Tortu, S. 2017. Risk of intimate partner violence and relationship conflict following couple-based HIV prevention counseling: results from the Harlem River Couples Project. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32(24), 3709-3734.
DOI: 10.1177/0886260515600878
Fedor, T. M., Kohler, H-P., & Behrman, J. R. 2015. The impact of married individuals learning HIV status in Malawi: Divorce, number of sexual partners, and condom use with spouses. Demography, 52(1), 259-280.
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0364-z
Fedor, T. M., Kohler, H.-P. & McMahon, J. M. 2015. Changing attitudes and beliefs towards a woman’s right to protect against HIV risk in Malawi. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 18(4), 435-452.
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1090016
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B.S. in
Applied Discrete Mathematics, Auburn University, 2001
M.S. in
Sociology, Utah State University, 2009
M.A. in
Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
Ph.D. in
Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
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