Rate My Professor Sian Curtis

Curtis's career highlights include Research Professor in Maternal and Child Health since 2022 (previously Research Associate Professor, 2002-2022), MEASURE Program Director at the Carolina Population Center since 2021, and Director of the MEASURE Evaluation Project from 2002 to 2012, leading over 150 monitoring and evaluation activities in more than 30 countries. Earlier roles were Senior Evaluation Analyst (1999-2002) and Analyst (1993-1999) at ORC Macro for MEASURE Evaluation and Demographic and Health Surveys projects, and Lecturer in the Department of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton (1992-1993). Her work has advanced global health through pioneering contraceptive use dynamics analyses using DHS data, equity assessments in Bangladesh maternal services, TB program evaluations in Ukraine showing benefits of social support and HIV-TB integration, and methodological studies on verbal autopsy for maternal mortality and obstetric fistula validation.

Key publications include the book chapter “Global Maternal and Child Health” (2012), “Contraceptive behavior dynamics and pregnancy in the United States: A latent transition analysis” (Demography, 2023), “Obstetric fistula in Bangladesh: Estimates from a national survey with clinical validation correction” (Lancet Global Health, 2022), and “Stagnation of maternal mortality decline in Bangladesh between 2010 and 2016 in spite of an increase in health services utilization” (Journal of Global Health, 2024). As Principal Investigator, she leads major USAID grants such as Global Health Program Evaluation, Analysis, Research and Learning ($90 million, 2023-present) and Data for Impact ($60 million, 2018-present). Awards comprise the International AIDS Society TB/HIV research award (2018), Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society (2018), and President’s Award for Excellence, Macro International (1995). She directs the Maternal and Child Health doctoral program (2022-present) and co-chairs the Gillings School Conflict of Interest Committee (2019-present).