Shelley Dawn Clark is a demographer who studies gender, health, and life course transitions in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Clark received her Ph.D. in Public Affairs from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She spent time at the Population Council and at the University of Chicago's Population Research Center and Harris Graduate School of Public Policy before joining the faculty at McGill University in 2006. Much of her research examines how adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa make key transitions to adulthood in the midst of an on-going HIV/AIDS epidemic. A current collaborative project with colleagues in Kenya, Burkina Faso, and South Africa explores the implications of single motherhood on women’s poverty and children’s health over the life course. Her findings have been published in leading journals, such as Demography, Population and Development Review, Social Forces, and Journal of Marriage and Family, and presented to policy makers at influential international organizations, including the World Bank, WHO, UNFPA/UNICEF, and the Population Council.