| Lorraine
V. Klerman, Dr.P.H., is a professor at the Heller
School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University,
Waltham Massachusetts. She conducts health services research
and policy analyses in the field of maternal and child health.
She is particularly concerned with the problems faced by children
from low-income families and with the reproductive health needs
of low-income women. She has conducted extensive research on
teenage pregnancy and childbearing and is currently an investigator
on two federally funded research projects in this area. She
has published articles, book chapters, and monographs in these
areas.
She is Associate Director of the National Program Office
of Smoke-Free Families, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded
program to reduce smoking among pregnant women and new mothers.
She is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health,
University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a Research Professor
at both the Dartmouth School of Medicine, and the School
of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University. At
Heller, she teaches a course in child health policy and serves
as director of the Family and Child Policy Center and as
co-chair of the concentration on children, youth, and families
at Heller.
She
is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard School
of Public Health. In 1996, she received the Martha
May Eliot Award of the American Public Health Association "honoring
exceptional health services to mothers and children."
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