Eileen Stillwaggon

Eileen Stillwaggon, Evans Professor

Eileen Stillwaggon is Professor of Economics and Harold G. Evans-Eisenhower Professor at Gettysburg College.  Author of the book, AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2006), Stillwaggon has written extensively on HIV/AIDS in developing nations for both scholarly journals and popular media. She has also written the 1998 book, Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies: Poverty, Disease, and Underdevelopment, about the interaction of poor health and poverty in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. She has taught at universities in Tanzania, Argentina, and Ecuador, and conducted research in those countries and elsewhere, including South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Swaziland, Lithuania, Dominican Republic, and on the Ute Indian Reservation in Utah.

Stillwaggon=s recent work integrates biological information on co-factor infections in an economic analysis of the spread of HIV in poor populations. She incorporates scientific findings on the role of malaria, soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis, malnutrition, and other endemic conditions with the economic concept of increasing returns. Her current work involves the modeling of complex systems of disease dynamics to devise effective health and development policies.

Stillwaggon has been invited to present her research at the World Health Organization in Geneva, the United Nations in New York, the International AIDS Conferences in Durban, Bangkok, Toronto, and Mexico City, Harvard School of Public Health, and many other venues.

Stillwaggon earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University's Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, a Diploma in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and master's degree and doctoral degrees in economics from The American University in Washington, D.C.  She is an officer and board member of the International AIDS Economic Network.