Emma Slaymaker

Lecturer

I joined the Centre for Population Studies in 2001. I started working life as a sailing instructor but was lured away from that by the bright lights of the communicable disease epidemiology masters at the School. With a first degree in Human Sciences from Oxford it was somewhat inevitable that I would one day end up in CPS. On the way, I worked on the surveillance of legionnaires' disease for a European scheme and, briefly, in Queensland, Australia. I then spent some time in Oxford looking at the associations between both ABO blood group and season of birth with various diseases, using data abstracted from the Oxford Record Linkage Study.

Affiliation

Teaching

I facilitate on STEPH and Analysing Survey and Population Data. I am a distance learning tutor, on the Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases unit and also a personal tutor for MSc students studying either 'Demography and Health' or 'Reproductive and Sexual Health Research'.

I run the Advanced Stata Short Course: Programming and other techniques to make your life easer.

Research

Most of my work is concerned with how sexual risk behaviours are measured in large population-based surveys and how the most use can be made of these data. I have conducted two global reviews of sexual behaviour.  Recent work includes a review of coital frequency data and development of methods for measuring both coital frequency and the level of condom use whilst accounting for differences in coital frequency.  I work with the ALPHA network and am currently analysing data on HIV-related mortality in ALPHA sites.

Research areas

  • Sexual health
  • Surveillance

Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Epidemiology
  • Statistics

Disease and Health Conditions

  • HIV/AIDS

Regions

  • Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
  • World

Countries

  • Tanzania

Other interests

  • Analysis Of Longitudinal Data
  • Complex Surveys
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