University of Maryland
School of Public Health
Department of Behavioral and Community Health
College Park
MDUSA
20742
Biographical Sketch: Janet Rosenbaum (Ph.D. in Health Policy and Statistics, Harvard University; 2008) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Sexually-Transmitted Disease Center. Prior to her Ph.D., she received an A.B. in Physics and an A.M. in Statistics from Harvard University. Rosenbaum applies new statistical methods to adolescent risk behavior prevention. She studies the accuracy of adolescents' reports of their risk behaviors, abstinence-only sex education, parent-adolescent communication about risk behaviors, and sexually-transmitted disease spread. Rosenbaum uses methods including matched sampling for causal inference and social networks. She has presented her research at the Federal Committee for Statistical Methodology, Society for Adolescent Medicine, American Public Health Association, American Statistical Association, and statistics conferences in Europe and the US. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Public Health, Pediatrics, and Science, and covered by media including the New York Times, Washington Post, the Today Show, and Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update.