Education:

• MPhil, Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut -- Doctorate expected 2007
• Natural Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Nonmatriculated studies, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• STD Clinician Certification, Centers for Disease Control (Atlanta, Georgia) and Venereal Disease Control Department, Los Angeles County Department of Health, Los Angeles, California
• PA, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California at Los Angeles/Harbor General Hospital, Torrance, California

Courses Taught:
HEPI610: AIDS Epidemiology

Research intrests
HIV/AIDS, STD/STIs, TB, Hepatidities; Injection drug-use and related behaviors
including but not limited to: Prevention and health care for women and others that differ from the majority by age, gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, sex and /or drug behavior, immigration status, economic and educational attainment and status, physical ability, religion, culture, lifeways, and/or any other divisive factor.

Selected Publications:

Stephens PC1, Gruber DA2, Carrell J2, Robinson WT2, and the NOLA 9 Workgroup1: McNutt L-A, Whittaker C, Bobseine KR, Bosso E, Gordon K, Masawi M, Reynolds D, Young A.
[1School of Public Health (SPH), State University of New York at Albany; 2HIV/AIDS Program, Office of Public Health, State of Louisiana]
"Disaster Recovery Meets Student Opportunity in NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana)", 134th Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2006

Co-Profesorado: 2do. Curso/Taller Internacional Sobre Salud Pública Y Epidemiología Aplicadas Al VIH/SIDA, XI Curso Internacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas Y Seminario Integral Del SIDA, Santiago de Cali, Colombia, Abril 2006.

Co-Profesorado: Primero Curso/Taller Internacional Sobre Salud Pública Y Epidemiología Aplicadas Al VIH/SIDA, X Curso Internacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas Y Seminario Integral Del SIDA, Santiago de Cali, Colombia, Marzo 2005.

Stephens PC, Tackley LL, and Klein SJ, "Epidemiology can save lives and bring focus to community-level work: A Skills-building Workshop," XV International Conference on AIDS, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004.

Singaravelu K, Carrascal A, Stephens PC, Tsui D, Chestnut T "Trends in cancers among People Living with HIV and AIDS in New York State," XV International Conference on AIDS, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004.

Agboola O, Stephens PC, Davisson M, Glebatis D, Maslak J, "Sub-Saharan-born Persons with AIDS in New York State: A Comparison to US-born New Yorkers with AIDS," [MoPeD2653], XIII International Conference on AIDS, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, July 2000.

Abdala N, Stephens PC, Griffith B, and Heimer R "Survival of HIV-1 in Syringes," Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology, January 1, 1999. (20:73-80.

Stephens PC, Heimer R, "Viral Load in Cervical, Vaginal, and Menstrual Fluids as Compared with Peripheral Blood levels in a Group of women with HIV and AIDS," National Conference on Women and AIDS, Los Angeles, California, May 1997.

Heimer R, Koshnood K, Stephens PC, Jariwala-Freeman B, Kaplan EH, "Evaluating a Needle exchange Program in a Small City: Models for testing HIV-1 Risk Reduction," International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1996.

Stephens PC, Zheng T, Holford T, Flannery J, Vance S, and Chao E," "Incident AIDS and Cervical cancer in Connecticut Women: An Ecological Examination of Time trends and Age-period-Cohort Effects, " [WS-B17-01] IXth International Conference on AIDS and IVth World STD Congress, Berlin, Germany, June 1993.