Master's Essay Titles

Master's essays are organized by topics.

• Adolescent Health
• Child Health
• Maternal, Fetal and Perinatal Health
• Population and Health
• Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health

Adolescent Health

• BMI, Achievement & Absenteeism in Predominantly African-American Students: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
• Current trends in diversity by race, ethnicity and sex within the Psychiatric physician workforce
• Evaluation of a Maternal Mental Health Training Intervention for the Nurse-Family Partnership
• Exploring Perceptions about the Grads2Careers Program in Baltimore: A Mixed Methods Evaluation
• Sex differences in gender norms and career planning among Bangladesh adolescents
• The application of intersectionality in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review
• What do we know about how African American adolescents make decisions to use long-acting reversible contraception methods?

Child Health

• Adverse Childhood Experiences in Latino Children in Immigrant Families versus US-Native Families
• An association between maternal intimate partner physical violence and a loaded firearm in the home
• Correlation between history of abortion and preterm birth in subsequent pregnancy: A systematic review
• Disability Complexity and Placement Outcomes for Children in Foster Care
• Embedding Equity into Maryland’s Prenatal-to-Age Three (PN-3) System of Care
• Importance of Provider-Parent Communication to Address Vaccine Hesitancy
• Improving Efficient Care for Children in Foster Care in the Hospital Setting: Learning from Inpatient Healthcare Providers
• Improving operating room turnover times through process redesign: A case study at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
• Perceptions of Asthma Control Among Caregivers of Children with Asthma
• Prenatal, Perinatal and Early Childhood Risk Factors for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Childhood
• Protection through projection: A preventive approach to attacks on health in humanitarian settings
• Sexuality education in elementary school: Approaches, effectiveness and challenges
• Working with Families with Substance Use Problems and/or Substance Exposed Newborns: Child Welfare Staff Experiences

Maternal, Fetal and Perinatal Health

• Adaptation and Application of an Observational Measure of Home Visit Quality to a Standard Mother Procedure
• Assessing predictors of elevated distress among newly arrived humanitarian immigrants in Maryland
• Community Health Workers in Reducing Infant Mortality in South Asia: A Systematic Literature Review
• Consumer Produce Shaping Behavior; Using Customer Corporate Disconnect to Inform WIC Shopping Experiences
• Evidence-Based Interventions to Increase Risk-Appropriate Perinatal Care
• Family planning access in forcibly displaced populations
• High-risk Pregnancy: Tracking, follow up, and interventions to improve outcomes
• Is Gonadotropin (Follicle Stimulating Hormone) Dosage Associated with Embryo Quality? An Analysis of 1,966 Autologous Fresh In-Vitro Fertilization Cycles
• Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Weight Gain in the Prenatal Period
• Measuring Post-Traumatic Stress After Childbirth: A Review and Critical Appraisal of Instruments
• Medicaid Options for Increasing Prenatal Care Utilization Among Pregnant Adolescents: A Policy Analysis
• Race and ethnic differences in different stages of embryo development within BMI categories
• Reaching the 3-Month Mark: A Qualitative Investigation of the Breastfeeding Journeys of WIC Mothers
• Reducing Maternal Morbidity During the Postpartum Period: A Literature Review
• Social and Behavior Change Communication Intervention on Family Planning Uptake: A Systematic Review
• Two-way misclassification of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in household surveys: Evidence from Tanzania
• Validity and Reliability of Using Mobile Phone Surveys to Evaluate Community Health Worker Program in Mali
• Warm handoffs for improving receipt of services following referral: A Systematic Review
• Women's reporting of current use of contraceptive methods before and after the introduction of contraceptive method awareness questions: A methodological report using PMA2020 survey data from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Nigeria

Population and Health

• Analyzing the global policy of Sustainable Development Goal #5: Missing the mark with gender equality and the way forward
• Asset Mapping in Systems Science: Avenues to Action in Community-Based Participatory Research across British Columbia
• Characterizing Associations of Asthma Prevalence with Urbanization in Peruvian Children
• Integrating a maternal and child health, nutrition and child nutrition intervention package within existing Bangladesh government first-level health facilities: a feasibility study
• Timing and Correlates of Reproductive Transitions to Adulthood among Youth in Rural Ethiopia

Women’s, Sexual and Reproductive Health

• A Quality Improvement-Based Approach to Increasing Recommended Developmental Screenings in Pediatric Primary Care Settings
• Associations Between Female Sex Worker Experiences with Uniformed Officers and HIV status in the Gambia: Results of an Integrated Biological and Behavioral Survey
• Characterizing Reproductive Health Status and Service Utilization Among Female Filipino Migrant Workers in Macao (SAR), China
• Contraceptive autonomy among women in Uganda
• Distinct cardiopulmonary endpoints at baseline in women exposed to CO and PM2.5 in three international communities
• Do Men Have a Choice in Becoming Fathers? Exploring Men’s Reproductive Agency and Wantedness of Pregnancies: Determinants and Effects
• Engaging Men to Influence Postpartum Family Planning Uptake in Ethiopia
• Experiences of Client-Perpetrated Condom Coercion Among Female Sex Workers in Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand
• Housing Instability and Violence Victimization Among Women Who Use Drugs (WWUD) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Intimate partner violence and psychological distress among female Congolese refugees: Methods and baseline data from a pilot study in Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania
• Is Being Out Protective or Harmful for Young Black-Men? Outcomes and Sexual Health During First Same Sex Anal Intercourse
• Lifetime experiences of gender-based violence, depressions, and condom use among female sex workers in Cameron
• Measuring congruency of actual and perceived sexual health communication between American Indian youth and their trusted adults
• Mental health disparities of LGBTQA autistic adults compared to heterosexual and cisgender autistic adults
• PrEP and Porn: Trends in popularity of condom-less pornographic videos featuring men having sex with men
• Prevalence and correlates of modern, non-barrier contraceptive use among female sex workers in two urban areas of Senegal
• Prevalence of depression and key associated factors among female sex workers living with HIV in Dyurban, South Africa
• Pulling Back the Curtain on Threats to Publicly Funded Family Planning
• Readiness for Intimate Partner Violence Response among Supportive Housing Programs: A capacity Assessment in Maryland
• Spatial Access to Abortion Before and After a Medicaid Funding Change in West Virginia:  An Ecological Study
• The Reproductive Health Needs of Syrian Refugees in Host Communities/Jordan
• Uptake of Postpartum Family Planning Methods by Trained Provider Zones: An Impact Analysis of Jhpiego’s “Sustainable Scale-up of Postpartum Family Planning” Project In Burkina Faso"