Center on Population Health and Aging
Biosketch - Francis Dodoo
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POSITION TITLE: College of Liberal Arts Research Professor and Professor of Sociology and Demography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Research capacity building in Sub-Saharan Africa; demographic and health outcomes associated with urban poverty; intergenerational transfer of norms governing the gendered stratification of sexuality; the male role and the intersection of gender and power on fertility decision making; Africans and other black immigrants in the United States.
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Sexual Behavior of Nairobi's Urban Poor (2003-2007) Supplement to Sexual Behavior of Nairobi's Urban Poor (2003-2004) Research and Training Grant for Developing Population Studies at the University of Ghana (2006-2008) Research and Training Grant for Developing Population Studies at the University of Ghana (Renewal), William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (2007-2010) Gendered Social Context of Adolescent HIV Risk Behavior: Family, Peer Group, and Community Influences in Southeastern Ghana INVESTIGATORS: Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Francis Dodoo, Ashley Frost; NICHD, PENDING (2009-2014) |
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
1988-1995 Assistant to Associate (1994) Professor of Sociology, and Director, African and Diaspora Studies (1992-1995), Tulane University 1995-2001 Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director, African American Studies (1995-1998), Vanderbilt University 1998-2000 Director (and Senior Fellow of the Population Council), African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi 2001-2003 Professor and Chair (2002), Department of African American Studies, and Faculty Associate, Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland 2003-Present Professor to College of Liberal Arts Research Professor (2006) of Sociology and Demography, Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University 2003-Present Research to Senior Research Associate (2006), Population Research Institute (PRI), The Pennsylvania State University 2006-Present Professor and Director, Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana |
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996 4-Time Olympian (Ghana) 1995-1996 Olympic Ambassador (Ghana) 1998-2000 Senior Fellow, Population Council (APHRC) 2005-2008 Board Member, 2008 African Cup of Nations (CAN 2008) Local Organizing Committee (LOC) 2006 The Grand Medal (GM) of the Republic of Ghana 2006-2007 Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) National Advisory Committee for Producers and Users of Statistics (NACPUS) 2006-2007 Advisory Board Member, Development of Ghana National HIV/AIDS Research Agenda 2006-Present College of Liberal Arts Research Professor, The Pennsylvania State University 2007 Board of Directors Award, National Council of Ghanaian Associations, Inc., NY 2007 Scientific Committee Member, Ghana National HIV/AIDS Research Conference (NHARCON) 2007-11 Member, Scientific Review Study Section, "Social Sciences and Population Studies" (SSPS), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health 2007- Founding Member, New Legon Observer 2008-Present Scientific Advisory Committee Member, International Network of DSS Sites Involved in Demographic and Health Research in Developing Countries (INDEPTH) 2008- Associate, Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty, and Policy, University of Southampton 2008- Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology 2008- Editorial Board, Population Research and Policy Review |
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Dodoo, F.N. (1991). "Blacks and Earnings in New York State." Sociological Spectrum 11(2):203-212. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1991). "Earnings Differences among Blacks in America." Social Science Research 20(2):93-108. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1991). "Immigrant and Native Black Workers' Labor Force Participation in the U.S.." National Journal of Sociology 5(1):3-17. Dodoo, F.N. (1991). "Minority Immigrants in the Land of Opportunity." Canadian Studies in Population 18(2):42-55. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1992). "Female Education, Age, Parity, and Reproduction Cessation in Ghana." Social Biology 39(1-2):102-108. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1993). "A Couple Analysis of Micro-Level Supply/Demand Factors in Fertility Regulation." Population Research and Policy Review 12(2):93-101. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1993). "Education and Changing Reproductive Behavior in Ghana." Sociological Perspectives 36(3):241-256. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1993). "Insights into Spousal Differences in Reproductive Dis/Agreement." Sociological Focus 26(3):257-270. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1994). "Relative Spousal Status and Child Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana." The Sociological Quarterly 35(3):507-519. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and A. Seal (1994). "Explaining Spousal Differences in Reproductive Preferences: A Gender Inequality Approach." Population and Environment 15(5):379-394. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and G. Pinon (1994). "Earnings Differences among the Mexican-Origin Population in the United States: Nativity and Citizenship Explanations." Sociological Perspectives 37(2):293-305. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1995). "Contraceptive Behavior in Ghana: A Two-Sex Model." International Journal of Sociology of the Family 25(1):43-61. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1995). "Explaining Contraceptive Use Differences: Do Men Play A Role?." African Population Studies 10:15-37. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and P. Kasari (1995). "Race and Female Occupational Location in America." Journal of Black Studies 25(4):465-474. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and R. Carr (1995). "The Simple Measure and Fertility Control Measurement in Africa." The Western Journal of Black Studies 19(4):279-283. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and J.T. Roberts (1995). "Population Growth, Sex Ratios, and Women's Work on the Contemporary Amazon Frontier." Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers 21:91-105. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and P. van Landewijk (1996). "Men, Women, and the Fertility Question in Sub-Saharan Africa." African Studies Review 39(3):29-41. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1997). "Assimilation Differences among Africans in America." Social Forces 76(2):527-546. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. , Y. Luo and E. Panayotova (1997). "Do Male Reproductive Preferences Really Point to a Need to Refocus Fertility Policy?." Population Research and Policy Review 16(5):447-455. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1998). "Marriage Type and Reproductive Decisions: A Comparative Study in Sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Marriage and the Family 60(1):232-242. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1998). "Men Matter: Additive and Interactive Gendered Preferences and Reproductive Behavior in Kenya." Demography 35(2):229-242. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1999). "Black America and Minority Immigrants: The Competing Disadvantaged?." Contemporary Sociology 28(4):385-387. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (1999). "Black and Immigrant Labor Force Participation in America." Race & Society 2(1):69-82. |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and A.A. Ampofo (2001). "AIDS-Related Knowledge and Behavior among Married Kenyan Men: A Behavioral Paradox?." Journal of Health and Human Services Administration 24(2):199-233. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and A.C. Ezeh (2001). "Institutional Change and the African Fertility Transition: The Case of Kenya." Genus 57(3-4):135-164. Dodoo, F.N. , A.C. Ezeh and T.O. Owuor (2001). "Some Evidence against the Assumption That Approval of Family Planning Is Associated with Frequency of Spouses' Discussion of the Subject. Research Note." Population Studies 55(2):195-198. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| DeRose, L.F. , F.N. Dodoo and V. Patil (2002). "Fertility Desires and Perceptions of Power in Reproductive Conflict in Ghana." Gender & Society 16(1):53-73. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| DeRose, L.F. , F.N. Dodoo and V. Patil (2002). "Schooling and Attitudes on Reproductive-Related Behavior in Ghana." The International Journal of Sociology of the Family 30(1):50-65. |Full Text| |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. (2002). "The Urban Poor and Health Systems in East Africa: Voices from Nairobi's Slums." In Opolot, S.J. (Ed.) , Building Healthy Cities: Improving the Health of Urban Migrants and the Urban Poor in Africa. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Comparative Urban Studies Project. (pp. 9-19) Dodoo, F.N. and B.K. Takyi (2002). "Africans in the Diaspora: Black-White Earnings Differences among America's Africans." Ethnic and Racial Studies 25(6):913-941. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and M. Tempenis (2002). "Gender, Power, and Reproduction: Rural-Urban Differences in the Relationship between Fertility Goals and Contraceptive Use in Kenya." Rural Sociology 67(1):46-70. |Journal Home Page| Newsome, Y.D. and F.N. Dodoo (2002). "Reversal of Fortune: Explaining the Decline in Black Women's Earnings." Gender & Society 16(4):442-464. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Zulu, E.M. , F.N. Dodoo and A.C. Ezeh (2002). "Sexual Risk-Taking in the Slums of Nairobi, Kenya, 1993-98." Population Studies 56(3):311-323. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. , M.M. Sloan and E.M. Zulu (2003). "Space, Context, and Hardship: Socializing Children into Sexual Activity in Kenyan Slums." In Agyei-Mensah, S. and J.B. Casterline (Eds.) , Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (pp. 147-160) Zulu, E.M. , F.N. Dodoo and A.C. Ezeh (2003). "Urbanization, Poverty and Sex: Roots of Risky Sexual Behaviors in Slum Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya." In Kalipeni, E. , S. Craddock , J.R. Oppong and J. Ghosh (Eds.) , HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. (pp. 167-174) DeRose, L.F. , F.N. Dodoo , A.C. Ezeh and T.O. Owuor (2004). "Does Discussion of Family Planning Improve Knowledge of Partner's Attitude toward Contraceptives?." International Family Planning Perspectives 30(2):87-93. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and N. Beisel (2005). "Africa in American Sociology: Invisibility, Opportunity and Obligation." Social Forces 84(1):595-600. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Takyi, B.K. and F.N. Dodoo (2005). "Gender, Lineage, and Fertility-Related Outcomes in Ghana." Journal of Marriage and Family 67(1):251-257. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and B.K. Takyi (2006). "Africans in the Diaspora: Black-White Earnings Differences among America's Africans." In Konadu-Agyeman, K. , B.K. Takyi and J.A. Arthur (Eds.) , The New African Diaspora in North America: Trends, Community Building, and Adaptation. Boulder, CO: Lexington Books. (pp. 168-188) Dodoo, F.N. , B.K. Takyi and J.R. Mann (2006). "On the Brain Drain of Africans to America: Some Methodological Observations." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 5(3):155-162. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Newsome, Y.D. and F.N. Dodoo (2006). "Reversal of Fortune: Explaining the Decline in Black Women's Earnings." In Durr, M. and S.A. Hill (Eds.) , Race, Work, and Family in the Lives of African Americans. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. (pp. 159-183) Dodoo, F.N. , B.K. Takyi and J.R. Mann (2007). "On the Brain Drain of Africans to America: Some Methodological Observations." In Patterson, R. (Ed.) , African Brain Circulation: Beyond the Drain-Gain Debate. Boston: Brill Academic Press. (pp. 87-94) Dodoo, F.N. , E.M. Zulu and A.C. Ezeh (2007). "Urban-Rural Differences in the Socioeconomic Deprivation-Sexual Behavior Link in Kenya." Social Science and Medicine 64(5):1019-1031. PMCID: PMC1852503?? |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Klein Hattori, M. and F.N. Dodoo (2007). "Cohabitation, Marriage, and 'Sexual Monogamy' in Nairobi's Slums." Social Science and Medicine 64(5):1067-1078. PMCID: PMC1866302?? |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and A. Frost (2008). "Gender in African Population Research: The Fertility/Reproductive Health Example." Annual Review of Sociology 34(1):431-452. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Frost, A. and F.N. Dodoo (2009). "Men Are Missing from African Family Planning." Contexts 8(1):44-49. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Shreffler, K. and F.N. Dodoo (2009). "The Role of Intergenerational Transfers, Land, and Education in Fertility Transition in Rural Kenya: The Case of Nyeri District." Population and Environment 30(3):75-92. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Dodoo, F.N. and N. Beisel (In Press). "Africa in American Sociology: Invisibility, Opportunity, and Obligation." In Lauer, H. and K. Anyidoho (Eds.) , Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities through African Perspectives. Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers. |
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