Faculty and Staff of The Center for Population and Family Health

Debra Kalmuss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Population & Family Health, Director of CPFH Academic Program
dk6@columbia.edu

EXPERTISE: General reproductive issues; contraceptive methods; Norplant; contraceptive, pregnancy resolution and fertility decisionmaking; adolescent childbearing.

Director, Academic Program, Division of Population and Family Health; consultant for various family planning agencies, state and city health departments, and hospital-based clinics on evaluations of family planning and sex education programs; former evaluation director, Young Adult Clinic, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

For more information, refer to the Family Planning Decision Making web site, or send e-mail to dk6@columbia.edu.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Westoff C., Truman C., Kalmuss D., Cushman L., Davidson A., Rulin M., and Heartwell S. "Depressive Symptoms and Depo-Provera," Contraception, 1998;57:237-240.

Westoff C., Truman C., Kalmuss D., Cushman L., Rulin M., Heartwell S., and Davidson A. "Depressive Symptoms and Norplant Contraceptive Implants," Contraception, 1998;57:241-245.

Cushman L., Romero D., Kalmuss D., Davidson A., Heartwell S., and Rulin M. "Condom Use Among Clinic Patients Using Norplant and Depo Provera," Family Planning Perspectives, forthcoming.

Kalmuss D., Davidson A., Cushman L., Heartwell S., and Rulin M. "Potential Barriers to the Removal of Levonorgestrel Implants (Norplant) Among Family Planning Clinic Patients," forthcoming.

Cushman L., Kalmuss D., and Namerow P. "Openness in Adoption: Experiences and Social Psychological Outcomes among Birthmothers," Marriage and Family Review, 25, 1/2: 7-18, 1997.

Namerow P., Kalmuss D., and Cushman L. "The Consequences of Placing versus Parenting among Young, Unmarried Women," Marriage and Family Review, 25, 3/4: 175-197, 1997.

Davidson A., Kalmuss D., Cushman L., Romero D., Heartwell S., and Rulin M. "Rates of Injectable Contraceptive Discontinuation and Subsequent Unintended Pregnancy Among Low-Income Women," American Journal of Public Health, v87n9, p. 1532, September 1997.

Davidson A. and Kalmuss D. "Norplant Coercion: An Overstated Threat," American Journal of Public Health 87(4): 550-551, 1997.

Cushman L., Romero D., Kalmuss D., Davidson A., Heartwell S., and Rulin M. "Condom Use among Clinic Patients using Norplant and Depo-Provera," Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Indianapolis, Ind., November 1997.

Kalmuss D. and Davidson A. "Norplant Discontinuation Among Low Income Women," Institute of Medicine Workshop on Implant Contraceptives: An Illuminating Case Study in Current Dilemmas and Possibilities. Washington D.C.; April 7-8, 1997.

Cushman L., Kalmuss, Davidson, Heartwell,and Rulin. "Beliefs About Depo-Provera Among Three Groups of Contraceptors," Advances in Contraception, 12:43-52, 1996.

Cushman L., Kalmuss D., Davidson A., Heartwell S., and Rulin M. "Beliefs About Norplant Among Low Income Urban Women," Contraception, 53:285-291, 1996.

Davidson A., Kalmuss D., Cushman L., Heartwell S., and Rulin M. "Decision Making Concerning Norplant Use," Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, NY; August 11-14, 1995.

Kalmuss D., Davidson A., Cushman L., Heartwell S., and Rulin M. "The Determinants of Norplant Use," Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Francisco; April 6-8, 1995.