Jennifer Cohn, MD

CPHI Associate Fellow

Email: Jennifer.cohn@uphs.upenn.edu
Curriculum Vitae: click here

Public Health Interests:

Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Global health workforce, Health systems strengthening, Health Inequities, Medical education, Activism and advocacy

Current Public-Health Related Activities:

My interests focus on US policy and the HIV pandemic as well as developing strategies to address the global health workforce shortage. I am currently involved in a project with the World Health Organization to analyze how disease-specific funding can best be used to build health systems and strengthen health workforce in low-income countries.

I also collaborate with Health GAP and other AIDS activist groups to work towards stronger US policy to fight the global HIV crisis.

Finally, I am interested in designing curriculae and programs that support inclusion of public health principals and the principals of health advocacy in graduate medical education. With these goals in mind I am working with others to build a global health residency track for the Department of Medicine.

Select Publications:

World Health Organization. (2008) Task shifting: Rational redistribution of tasks among health workforce teams: Global recommendations and guidelines.

Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative. (2008) Addressing the Health Workforce Crisis: A toolkit for health professional advocates.

Brown L, Lourie K, Zlotnick K, Cohn J (2000). Impact of sexual abuse on HIV-related risk behavior of adolescents in intensive psychiatric settings. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157(9), 1413-1415