Primary Teaching Areas

Health policy, health administration, management, and finance; biostatistics

Selected Publications

Quinlivan EB, Fletcher J, Eastwood EA, Verdecias N, Blank AE. The health status of HIV-infected women of color at urban and rural sites. Submitted to the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, October 2013.

Eastwood EA, Quinlivan EB, Fletcher J, Verdecias N, Blank AE. Social, behavioral, and geographical characteristics among HIV-infected women enrolled in the Women of Color initiative, a special project of national significance.  Submitted to the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, MA, October 2013.

Espino SR, Garcia I, Eastwood B, Henderson T, Karasz A, Precht A, Gonzalez-Drigo M.  Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Peer-based HIV interventions: Lessons Learned and Future Support Roles.  Abstract submitted to the Annual Meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Washington, DC, October, 2013.

Blank AE, Espino S, Eastwood B, Matoff-Stepp S, Xavier J. The HIV/AIDS women of color initiative improving access to and quality of care for women of color. J Health Care Poor & Underserved, 2013, 24 (1), 15-26.

Michel L, Eastwood E, Burns A, Weinstein R, Birnbaum JM. Factors Associated with Retention in Care of High-Risk Transgender Youth in an Urban Adolescent-Young Adult Clinic. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Atlanta, GA, March, 2013.

Birnbaum JM,  Lounsbury DW, Eastwood E,  Palma A, Jo GY. Use of System Dynamics Modeling As a Tool For Evaluation of Intervention Planning For HIV+ Adolescents And Their Retention In Care In An Urban Adolescent HIV Clinic. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Atlanta, GA, March, 2013.

Eastwood EA, Birnbaum JM, Peters RM. Correlates of barriers to care and health status among women of color at risk of falling out of care.  Accepted for poster presentation at XIX International AIDS Conference, Washington, DC, July 24, 2012.

Eastwood EA, Birnbaum, JM, Peters, RM. Correlates of health concerns and barriers to receiving HIV care among women of color at risk of falling out of care.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, CA, October 29, 2012.

Eastwood EA. and Birnbaum JM.  Physical and sexual abuse and unstable housing among adolescents with HIV.  AIDS and Behavior 2007: 11 (6 Supp): 116-27.

Eastwood EA, Birnbaum, JM, Bohannon B, Wheeling J Dominguez KL, and the LEGACY Consortium. Correlates of Young Motherhood: Social Functioning among a Nationally Representative Cohort of HIV-infected Females, United States, 2004-2006 (submitted, 2011).

Burns A, Eastwood EA, Joseph M, Birnbaum JM. Tobacco as a prognosticator of other substance use, sexual and physical abuse and adverse outcomes in HIV-positive youth.  Poster presentation at Society of Adolescent Medicine and Health Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March, 2011.

Peters RM, Birnbaum JM, Eastwood EA. Peer outreach workers can engage hard to reach populations into HIV/AIDS Care.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, November, 2011.

Eastwood, Elizabeth A and Birnbaum, Jeffrey M. Physical and sexual abuse and unstable housing among adolescents with HIV. AIDS and Behavior, 2007, 11 (6 Suppl.), 116-127.

Johnston, Mark V, Eastwood Elizabeth A, Wilkerson Deborah L, Anderson Leigh, and Alves Annette. Systematically assessing and improving the quality and outcomes of medical rehabilitation programs. In Delisa, Joel, Gans, Bruce et al. (Eds.) Rehabilitation medicine: principles and practice (4^th Edition). Philadelphia: Lippincott and Williams, 2005, pp. 1163-1192.

Eastwood, Elizabeth A., Magaziner, Jay, Wang, Jason, Silberzweig, Stacey, Hannan, Edward L., Strauss, Elton, Siu, Albert L. Patients with Hip Fracture: Subgroups and their outcomes. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2002, 50(7), 1240-1249.

Hannan, Edward L., Magaziner, Jay, Wang, Jason J., Eastwood, Elizabeth A., Silberzweig, Stacey B., Gilbert, Marvin, Morrison, Sean, McLaughlin, Mary Ann, Orosz, Gretchen M, and Siu, Albert L. Mortality and locomotion six months after hospitalization for hip fracture: An assessment of outcomes and statistical models. JAMA, 2001, 285 (21), 2736-2742.

Education

• BA, Psychology, Hampshire College, 1974

• MSW, School of Social Work Research, Boston College, 1979

• PhD, Social Policy , Heller School for Social Policy and Management, 1984