PAA Meeting, April 2025.
DZC Investigators and Advisory Board meet in Washington, DC, to discuss the projects updates.
DZC Fieldwork and Data Team meet in Recife, Pernambuco, with Grupo Curumim and DataMetrica Survey, to plan the next round of interviews for DZC.
DZC team, Ana Paula Portela, Heloína Paiva and Luiz Sereno, meet with Grupo Curumim and DataMetrica Survey in Recife, Pernambuco, to work on the next wave of interviews for DZC.
Interview with Sneha Kumar
Tell us a bit on how you’ve got involved with DZC, to now becoming a co-investigator at DZC2. I joined the DZC team as a postdoc in September 2021. My PhD research focused on health among migrant-sending families in Asia, and I was looking for an opportunity that would allow me to explore a different research topic within the broader area of social stratification and health. The DZC project was the perfect fit. It also offered …
Interview with Molly Dondero
What can women in other countries or regions relate to about the DZC findings? Although our study is set in Pernambuco, the state that was hardest hit by the Zika epidemic, our findings touch on many themes that resonate with women in other countries. For example, our main goal has been to understand women’s experiences navigating one of life’s most consequential decisions—whether and when to have (more) children—during major novel infectious disease crises—which tend to …
60-Second Lecture: Reproductive Health Matters
Letícia J. Marteleto, Presidential Compact Professor of Sociology gave a Penn School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) 60-Second Lecture: “Reproductive Health Matters.” Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/11338492/video/1002912705.
Climate, Public Health Crises, and Fertility
Read this article in Penn Today by Erica Moser: "Climate, public health crises, and fertility: Letícia Marteleto, a social demographer new to Penn, does research at the intersection of fertility, Zika, COVID-19, climate conditions, urbanicity, and inequality." Photographer: Eric Sucar.
All Women, Regardless of Class, Need Access to Zika Prevention at Home and Abroad
Read this Op-Ed "All Women, Regardless of Class, Need Access to Zika Prevention at Home and Abroad" on the UT News website by: Letícia J. Marteleto