Stella O. Babalola

Associate Professor
Deputy Director, Project SEARCH: Research to Prevention

PhD

School/Organization
Bloomberg School of Public Health

Department / Division
Health, Behavior and Society

Center and Institute Affiliations
Center for Communication Programs

Departmental Address
111 Market Place - Ste 310
Baltimore, MD 21239

Email: sbabalol@jhsph.edu
Phone: 410-659-6300
Fax: 410-659-6266

• My research areas include strategic communication, gender issues, adolescent reproductive health, quantitative methods for assessing the effects of communication programs, and qualitative audience studies. Recently, main research projects have dealt with sexual attitudes and behaviors among African youth; community influences on VCT-seeking behaviors; factors influencing the uptake of childhood immunization; and program effects using crosssectional data.

• Stella Babalola and Adesegun Fatusi Determinants of use of maternal health services in Nigeria - looking beyond individual and household factors. Forthcoming in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Obasi C, Agwu A, Akinpelu W, Hammons R, Clark C, Etienne-Cummings R, Hill P, Rothman R, Babalola S, Ross T, Carroll K. and Asiyanbola B.(2009) Contamination of equipment in emergency settings: An exploratory study with a targeted automated intervention. Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research, 3:8
• Stella Babalola, Adesegun Fatusi, Jennifer Anyanti (2009) Media Saturation, Communication Exposure and HIV Stigma in Nigeria. Social Science & Medicine, 68 (2009): 1513–1520
• Babalola, Stella and Kincaid, D. Lawrence (2009) 'New Methods for Estimating the Impact of Health Communication Programs’, Communication Methods and Measures, 3:1,61 — 83
• Babalola, S, Lawan, U (2009) Factors predicting BCG immunization status in northern Nigeria: A behavioral-ecological perspective. Forthcoming in Child Health Care, 13(1):
• Babalola, S (2008) Correlates of the uptake of childhood immunization in northern Nigeria: a multilevel analysis. Maternal and Child Health Journal, doi: 10.1007/s10995-008-0386-5. Available on: http://www.springerlink.com/content/r34j137u755gp51k
• Babalola, S, Folda, L, Babayaro, H (2008) The effects of a communication program on contraceptive ideation and use among young women in northern Nigeria: a multivariate probit analysis. Forthcoming in Studies in Family Planning
• Kornfield, R. and S. Babalola (2008) Gendered responses to living with AIDS : case studies in Rwanda. In Feldman, D. (ed.) AIDS, Culture and Africa. University Press of Florida. pp. 35-56
• Babalola, S. (2007) Readiness for HIV testing among young people in northern Nigeria: the roles of social norm and perceived stigma. AIDS and Behaviour, Volume 11( 5): 759-769
• Babalola, S. (2006) Gender differences in the factors influencing consistent use of condom among young people in Tanzania. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 18(2): 287-299.
• Babalola, Stella, Brasington, Angela, Agbasimalo, Ada, Helland, Anna, Nwanguma, Edith, and Onah, Nkechi (2006) Impact of a communication program on female genital cutting in Eastern Nigeria. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 11(10):1594-1603.
• Babalola, S., Ouedraogo, D., and Vondrasek, C. (2006) Motivation for late sexual debut in Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso: A positive deviance inquiry. Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children and Youth, 7(2): 65 – 87
• Babalola, S. and P. Nwashili (2005) Poverty, Adolescent Sexuality and the Shadow of AIDS: A Study of Female Motor Park Workers in Lagos, Nigeria. In Obioma Nnaemeka and Joy Ezeilo (eds.) Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socio-economic Realities in Africa. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan
• Babalola, S. and Vondrasek, C. (2005) The effects of a family planning behavior change communication program in Burkina Faso: An application of the propensity score matching method. International Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 31, 3, 207-212.
• Babalola, S., B. Oleko-Tambashe, and C. Vondrasek (2005) Parental Factors and Sexual Risk-Taking among Young People in Côte d’Ivoire. African Journal for Reproductive Health, 9(1): 49-65.
• Babalola S. (2004) Perceived peer behavior and the timing of sexual debut in Rwanda: a survival analysis of youth data. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 33(4): 353-363.
• Babalola, S., D. Awasum and B. Quenum-Renaud (2002) The correlates of safe sex practices among Rwandan youth: a positive deviance approach. African Journal of AIDS Research, 1: 11–21
• Stella Babalola, Jane Brown, Damaris Moulom, Jean-Paul Tchupo, Natasha Sakolsky and Claudia Vondrasek (2001) The impact of a community mobilization project on health-related attitudes and practices in Cameroon. Journal of Community Health, 26(6): 459-477
• Stella Babalola, Claudia Vondrasek, Jane Brown and Regina Traoré (2001) “The impact of a regional family planning promotion initiative in West Africa: evidence from Cameroon.” International Family Planning Perspectives 27(4):186-193