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Professor and Director, Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy

klerman@brandeis.edu Heller  364 781-736-3715

Expertise

Maternal and child health; child welfare; children's policy issues; family planning; teenage sexuality, pregnancy, and parenting;health care access, prenatal care

Courses

  • HS 317b - Children, Youth and Families: Problems, Policies and Programs
  • HS 330b - Child-Related Policies in the United States
  • HS 602c - Children, Youth, and Families Doctoral Seminar
  • HSSP 112b - Public Health Perspectives on Child Well-Being
  • WMGS 106b - Women in the Health Care System

Scholarship

  • Klerman, L.V. & Dawson, P.. "Helping Plan the Next Pregnancy." Zero to Three 29. 4 (2009): 28-32.
  • Klerman LV., Jack BW ,Coonrad DV, Lu MC, Fry-Johnson YW, Johnson, K.. "The Clinical Content of Preconception Care: Care of Psychosocial Stressors.." American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 199. 6B (2008): S362-S366.
  • Goodman DC, Klerman LV, Johnson KA, Chang C. "Geographic Access to Family Planning Clinics: Its Impact on Unintended and Teenage Births." Maternal and Child Health Journal 11. (2007): 145-152.
  • Klerman LV, Johnson KA, Chang C, Wright-Slaughter P, Goodman DC. "Accessibility of Family Planning Services: Impact of Structural and Organizational Factors.." Maternal and Child Health Journal 11. (2007): 19-26.
  • Klerman, LV. "Multi-Partnered Fertility: Can It Be Reduced?." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 39. (2007): 56-59.
  • Klerman, L. V.. "Family Planning Services: An Essential Component of Preconception Care." Maternal and Child Health Journal 10. 5 Suppl (2006): 157-60.
  • Klerman, L.V.. "Risk of Poor Pregnancy Outcomes: Is It Higher Among Multiparous Teenage Mothers?." Journal of Adolescent Health 38. (2006): 761-764.
  • Lu, M. C., Kotelchuck, M., Culhane, J. F., Hobel, C. J., Klerman, L. V., Thorp, J. M., Jr.. "Preconception Care Between Pregnancies: The Content of Internatal Care." Maternal and Child Health Journal 10. Supplement 7 (2006): 107-122.
  • Gallagher, K.M., Stanley, A., Shearer, D.L., Klerman, L.V.. "Challenges in Data Collection, Analysis, and Distribution of Information in Community Coalition Demonstration Projects." Journal of Adolescent Health 37. (2005): s53-s60.
  • Klerman, L.V., Santelli, J.S., Klein, J.D.. "So What Have We Learned? The Editors' Comments on the Coalition Approach to Teen Pregnancy.." Journal of Adolescent Health 37. (2005): S115-S118.
  • Shearer, D.L., Gyaben, S.L., Gallagher, K.M., Klerman, L.V.. "Selecting, Implementing, and Evaluating Teen Pregnancy Prevention Interventions: Lessons from the CDC's Community Coalition Partnership Programs for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy." Journal of Adolescent Health 37. (2005): S42-S52.
  • Klerman, L.V, Santelli, J.S., ed. Coalition Approach to Preventing Teen Pregnancy: Potential and Problems. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37 2004.
  • Klerman, L.V.. "Protecting Children. Reducing Their Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure." Nicotine & Tobacco Research 6. (2004): S239-252.
  • Klerman, L.V.. Another Chance. Preventing Additional Births to Teen Mothers. Washington, DC: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2004.
  • Klerman, L.V., Baker, B.A., Howard, G.. "Second Births among Teenage Mothers: Program Results and Statistical Methods." Journal of Adolescent Health 32. (2003): 452-455.
  • Klerman, L.V., Spivey, C.. "Smoking-Related Activities in Prenatal Care Programs." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 35. (2003): 129-135.
  • Klerman, L.V.. "Child Health." Family and Child Well-Being After Welfare Reform.. Ed. Besharov, D.J.. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003. 195-207.
  • Klerman, L.V., Klerman, J.A.. "Abortion." Encyclopedia of Public Health. Ed. Breslow, L.. New York, NY: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 1-5.
  • Klerman, L.V.. "Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States." International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 14. (2002): 89-95.
  • Pulley, L.V., Klerman, L.V., Tang, H., Baker, B.A.. "The Extent of Pregnancy Mistiming and Its Association with Maternal Characteristics, Maternal Behaviors and Pregnancy Outcomes." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 34. (2002): 206-211.
  • Shearer, D.L. , Mulvihill, B.A. , Klerman, L.V. , Wallander, J.L. , Hovinga, M.E. , Redden, D.T.. "Association of Early Childbearing and Low Cognitive Ability." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 34. (2002): 236-243.
  • Klerman, L.V., Ramey, S.L., Goldenberg, R.L., Marbury, S. , Hou, J., Cliver, S.P.. "A Randomized Trial of Augmented Prenatal Services for Multi-Risk, Medicaid-Eligible African-American Women." American Journal of Public Health 91. (2001): 105-111.
  • Stevens-Simon, C., Beach, R.K., Klerman, L.V.. "To Be Rather Than Not To Be - That is the Problem with the Questions We Ask Adolescents about Their Childbearing Intentions." Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 155. (2001): 1298-1300..
  • Klerman, L.V., Cleckley, D. , Sinsky, R. , Sams, S.H.. "Quality Improvement in a Local Health Department Through the Infant Mortality Review Process." Joint Commission Journal of Quality Improvement 26. (2000): 147-159.
  • Klerman, L.V., Spivey, C., Raykovich, K.T.. "Smoking Reduction Activities in a Federal Program to Reduce Infant Mortality among High Risk Women." Tobacco Control 9. supplement iii (2000): 51-55.
  • Klerman, L.V., ed. The Intendedness of Pregnancy. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 4 2000.
  • Klerman, L.V.. "The Intendedness of Pregnancy: A Concept in Transition." Maternal and Child Health Journal 4. (2000): 155-162.
  • Klerman, L.V., Parker, M.B.. Alive and Well? A Research and Policy Review of Health Programs for Poor Young Children. New York, NY: National Resource Center for Children in Poverty, 1991.
  • Weatherley, R.A. , Perlman, S.B. , Levine M., Klerman, L.V.. Patchwork Programs: Comprehensive Services for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents. Seattle, WA: Center for Social Welfare Research, University of Washington, 1985.
  • Morrissey, J.P. , Goldman, H.H. , Klerman, L.V.. The Enduring Asylum: Cycles of Institutional Reform at Worcester State Hospital. New York, NY: Grune & Stratton, 1980.
  • Klerman, L.V., Jekel, J.F.. School-Age Mothers: Problems, Programs, and Policy. Hamden, CT: Linnet Books, 1973.
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Profile

Professor Klerman's major interest is in the well-being of children. Her teaching and scholarship cover the influences on well-being from the preconception period through adolescence. Trained in public health, she focuses mainly on how many of the problems facing children can be prevented - or at least detected early and solved or ameliorated. She attempts to integrate the fields of maternal and child health and child welfare.

 

Degrees

Harvard University, School of Public Health
Dr.P.H.

Harvard University, School of Public Health
M.P.H.

Cornell University
B.A.

Awards and Honors

  • Martha May Eliot Award, American Public Health Association (1996)