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Sioban D. Harlow
Funded Research:
A Secular Change in Menstrual Characteristics of Adult and Midlife Women (NICHD)
An Institutional Framework to Promote Global Health Research and Training (Fogarty)
Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (NCI)
Hip Strength Across the Menopausal Transition (NIA)
Methods of Studying Variability as a Predictor of Health Status (NIA)
Staging Reproductive Aging in Four Cohorts: Issues of Hormone Use Spotting Bias (NIA)
STRAW+10: Addressing the Unfinished Agenda of Staging Reproductive Aging (NIA)
Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN) IV (NINR)
SWAN IV Pulse Wave Velocity - Subcontract (NIA)
The Epidemiology of Obesity Metabolism in the Menopausal Transition (NHLBI)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Harlow is interested in reproductive and occupational epidemiology. Her research focuses on quantifying the variations in menstrual cycle characteristics across the reproductive life span, identifying host and environmental determinants of variation in menstrual cycle patterns, and occupational risks to women's health.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Huang, X., Sioban D. Harlow, and Michael R. Elliott. 2012. "Distinguishing 6 Population Subgroups by Timing and Characteristics of the Menopausal Transition." American Journal of Epidemiology, 175(1): 74-83. PMCID: PMC3276254. DOI. Abstract.
Reed, B.D., Sioban D. Harlow, A. Sen, L. Legocki, R. Edwards, N. Arato, and H. Haefner. 2012. "Prevalence and demographic characteristics of vulvodynia in a population-based sample." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 206(2). DOI. Abstract.
Campbell, Cameron D., M. Curado, Sioban D. Harlow, and A. Soliman. 2012. "Regional variation in histopathology-specific incidence of invasive cervical cancer among Peruvian women." International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 116(1): 47-51. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Rillamas-Sun, E., M.R. Sowers, Sioban D. Harlow, and J.F. Randolph. 2012. "The Relationship of Birth Weight With Longitudinal Changes in Body Composition in Adult Women." Obesity, 20(2): 463-465. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Wang, C., R. Little, B. Nan, and Sioban D. Harlow. 2011. "A Hot-Deck Multiple Imputation Procedure for Gaps in Longitudinal Recurrent Event Histories." Biometrics, 67(4): 1573-1582. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Harlow, Sioban D., and Pangaja Paramsothy. 2011. "Menstruation and the Menopausal Transition." Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 38(3): 595-+. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Cain, K., Sioban D. Harlow, R. J. A. Little, B. Nan, M. Yosef, J. Taffe, and Michael R. Elliott. 2011. "Bias Due to Left Truncation and Left Censoring in Longitudinal Studies of Developmental and Disease Processes." American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(9): 1078-1084. PMCID: PMC3121224. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Little, R.J., B. Nan, and Sioban D. Harlow. 2011. "A method for longitudinal prospective evaluation of markers for a subsequent event." American Journal of Epidemiology, 173(12): 1380-1387. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Vogtman, E., Sioban D. Harlow, A. Cruz Valdez, J.C. Cruz Valdez, and E. Lazcano Ponce. 2011. "HPV Knowledge in Mexican College Students: Implications for Intervention Programmes Health & Social Care in the Community." Health and Social Care in the Community, 19(2): 148-157. DOI. Abstract.
Tran, Nguyen, Jaye Stapleton, Yilin Zheng, Sioban D. Harlow, Huixia Yang, and Cheryl A. Moyer. 2011. "Contraceptive practices of women visiting a gynecology clinic in Beijing, China." International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 112(1): 64-65. DOI. Local Access.