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Bernard Berelson Fellow Profile Sharon Ghuman joined the Population Council in 2005 as resident fellow in population studies. Her areas of research specialization are health and human capital accumulation among children and adolescents, evaluating health- and poverty-related programs, and the role of school and health service provider quality in determining health and schooling outcomes. She currently researches teacher absenteeism in primary schools in Pakistan with the Council's director of social science research, Cynthia Lloyd. Ghuman came to the Council after a postdoctoral fellowship at the NICHD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development), Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. She has collaborated for four years on a longitudinal study that is evaluating a Philippine early childhood development program. She has also conducted research on trends in premarital sexual behavior in Vietnam prior to and after the start of the market reforms in the late 1980s. Ghuman received her Ph.D. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Her dissertation was on women’s status and child survival in five South and Southeast Asian countries. As a graduate student she also conducted research on the measurement properties of survey items on women’s status.
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