Susheela Singh, Vice President for Research

Dr. Singh directs and oversees the implementation and management of AGI’s research projects and activities. She has been with AGI since 1985. She earned her doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and worked until 1984 at the World Fertility Survey. During her career as a social scientist she has written and co-authored numerous articles and publications regarding a wide variety of sexual and reproductive health issues affecting the U.S. and other developed and developing countries. Dr. Singh has also co-authored several reports at AGI, including: Hopes and Realities: Closing the Gap Between Women's Aspirations and Their Reproductive Experience (1995), on the reproductive behavior and health care needs of women worldwide; Into a New World: Young Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Lives (1998), an investigation of adolescents in 53 countries; (1999), a worldwide overview of induced abortion and unplanned pregnancy; Adding It Up: The Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care (2004) and (2004). She is currently involved in international research projects pertaining to unplanned pregnancy and abortion in Uganda, Guatemala, Nigeria and the Philippines, prevention of HIV among youth in Sub Saharan Africa, adolescent sexual and reproductive behavior, and unmet need for contraception worldwide; and in domestic projects that examine the reasons women choose abortion and the logistics of obtaining abortions, underreporting of abortion, contraceptive use and effectiveness, and adolescent sexual and reproductive

Recent Publications Include:

Finer LB, Frohwirth LF, Dauphinee LA, Singh S and Moore AM, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2005, 37(3):110-118.

Jones RK, Darroch JE and Singh S, “Religious Differentials in the Sexual and Reproductive Behaviors of Young Women in the U.S.”, Journal of Adolescent Health, forthcoming 2005.

Vlassoff M et. al., Costs and Benefits of Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: A Review, Occasional Report, New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004, No. 11 (forthcoming).

Bankole A, Singh S and Woog V, Risk and Protection: Youth and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004.

Singh S, Bankole A and Darroch JE, A, B and C in Uganda: The Roles of Abstinence, Monogamy and Condom Use in HIV Decline, Occasional Report, New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003, No. 9. Singh S, Darroch JE, Vlassof M and Nadeau J, Adding it Up: The Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care, New York: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2003.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Men Worldwide, AGI, New York: 2003.

Singh S, Henshaw SK and Berentsen K, Abortion: A worldwide overview, The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion: Global Perspectives, in Alaka M. Basu, Ed., Praeger Publishers: Westport, CT, 2003:15-48.

Singh S and Mensch B, Adolescent Fertility, in The Encyclopedia of Population, Demeny P and McNicoll G, eds., The Free Press, 2003.

Landry DJ, Darroch JE, Singh S and Higgins J, Factors Associated with the Content of Sex Education in U.S. Public Secondary Schools, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2003, 35(6); 261-269.

Ranjit N, Bankole A, Darroch JE and Singh S, Contraceptive Failure in the First Two Years of Use: Differences Across Socioeconomic Subgroups, Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, 33(1):19-27.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of American Men, AGI, New York: 2002.

Darroch JE, Frost JJ and Singh S, Socioeconomic disadvantage and adolescent women’s sexual and reproductive behavior: The case of five developed countries, Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, 33(6): 251-258.

Darroch JE, Frost JJ and Singh S, Differences in teenage pregnancy rates among five developed countries: The roles of sexual activity and contraceptive use, Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, 33(6): 244-250 & 281,.

Singh S, Wulf D, Samara R and Cuca YP, Gender differences in the timing of first intercourse: data from 14 countries, International Family Planning Perspectives, 2000, 26(1): 21-28 and 43.

Singh S, Panchaud C, Feivelson D and Darroch JE, Sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents in developed countries, Family Planning Perspectives, 2000, 32(1): 24-32 and 45.

Singh S, Bankole A and Haas T, Reasons why women have induced abortions: Evidence from 27 countries, International Family Planning Perspectives,1998, 24(3):117-127 & 152.

Singh S, Perez AP, Cabigon J and Wulf D, Clandestine Abortion: A Philippine Reality, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York, 1997.