Vijayan Pillai
Vijayan K Pillai, Ph.D., is professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH) and also a Fellow of the American Academy of Epidemiology (FACE). He started his teaching career as a faculty member of the Dept. of Social Development at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. Prior to joining the University of Texas at Arlington, he was a faculty member in the Dept. of Sociology and Social Work at the University of North Texas, Denton. He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, MSW from Indore School of Social Work, Indore, and Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning from the School of Planning, CEPT University, and Ahmadabad, India. He is a demographer with research interests in adolescent fertility, women’s health and welfare issues, HIV/AIDS in Africa, women’s reproductive health in developing countries, and gender issues. He has written extensively on topics such as the determinants of adolescent fertility in Zambia, welfare and teenage norms in the United States, and the relationship between women’s rights and reproductive health at a cross-national level in developing countries. He is currently engaged in investigating the impact of stigma on psychosocial health of children living with parents with HIV in Botswana.
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