Jennifer E. Cohn, MD MPH

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Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Associate Fellow, Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Site Director, Penn GHERT in Geneva, Switzerland
Scholar, Penn Center for Global Health
Department: Medicine

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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St
3rd Floor Silverstein, Suite E
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2156626832
Education:
BA (Human Biology & Psychology)
Brown University, 1999.
MD
University of Pennsylvania, 2004.
MPH (Global Health)
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2011.
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Selected Publications

Mafirakureva N, Mukherjee S, de Souza M, Kelly-Cirino C, Songane MJP, Cohn J, Lemaire JF, Casenghi M, Dodd PJ.: Cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to improve diagnosis and preventive therapy for paediatric tuberculosis in 9 sub-Saharan African countries: A modelling study. PLoS Med 20: e1004285, Sep 2023.

Mafirakureva N, Tchounga BK, Mukherjee S, Youngui BT, Ssekyanzi B, Simo L, Okello RF, Turyahabwe S, Kuate AK, Cohn J, Vasiliu A, Casenghi M, Atwine D, Bonnet M, Dodd PJ.: Cost-effectiveness of community-based household tuberculosis contact management for children in Cameroon and Uganda: a modelling analysis of a cluster-randomised trial. The Lancet Global Health Page: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00451-5. 2023.

Campbell NRC, Whelton PK, Orias M, Wainford RD, Cappuccio FP, Ide N, Neal B, Cohn J, Cobb LK, Webster J, Trieu K, He FJ, McLean RM, Blanco-Metzler A, Woodward M, Khan N, Kokubo Y, Nederveen L, Arcand J, MacGregor GA, Owolabi MO, Lisheng L, Parati G, Lackland DT, Charchar FJ, Williams B, Tomaszewski M, Romero CA, Champagne B, L'Abbe MR, Weber MA, Schlaich MP, Fogo A, Feigin VL, Akinyemi R, Inserra F, Menon B, Simas M, Neves MF, Hristova K, Pullen C, Pandeya S, Ge J, Jalil JE, Wang JG, Wideimsky J, Kreutz R, Wenzel U, Stowasser M, Arango M, Protogerou A, Gkaliagkousi E, Fuchs FD, Patil M, Chan AW, Nemcsik J, Tsuyuki RT, Narasingan SN, Sarrafzadegan N, Ramos ME, Yeo N, Rakugi H, Ramirez AJ, Álvarez G, Berbari A, Kim CI, Ihm SH, Chia YC, Unurjargal T, Park HK, Wahab K, McGuire H, Dashdorj NJ, Ishaq M, Ona DID, Mercado-Asis LB, Prejbisz A, Leenaerts M, Simão C, Pinto F, Almustafa BA, Spaak J, Farsky S, Lovic D, Zhang XH.: 2022 World Hypertension League, Resolve To Save Lives and International Society of Hypertension dietary sodium (salt) global call to action. J Hum Hypertens 2023.

Burka D, Gupta R, Moran AE, Cohn J, Choudhury SR, Cheadle T, Mullick R, Frieden TR.: Keep it simple: designing a user-centred digital information system to support chronic disease management in low/middle-income countries. BMJ Health Care Inform 2023.

Bonnet B, Vasiliu A, Tchounga BK, Cuer B, Fielding K, Ssekyanzi B, Youngui BT, Cohn J, et al. : Effectiveness of a community-based approach for the investigation and management of children with household tuberculosis contact in Cameroon and Uganda: a cluster-randomised trial. The Lancet Global Health Page: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00430-8. 2023.

Koeppel L, Dittrich S, Brenner Miguel S, Carmona S, Ongarello S, Vetter B, Cohn JE, Baernighausen T, Geldsetzer P, Denkinger CM; HPACC Consortium.: Addressing the diagnostic gap in hypertension through possible interventions and scale-up: A microsimulation study. PLoS Med 19: e1004111, Dec 2022.

Sacks E, Katirayi L, Kaeberle B, Mafaune HW, Chadambuka A, Tachiwenyika E, Nyamundaya T, Cohn J, Mahomva A, Mushavi A.: 'The baby will have the right beginning': a qualitative study on mother and health worker views on point-of-care HIV birth testing across 10 sites in Zimbabwe. BMC Pediatr 22: 546, Sep 2022.

Cohn J, Bygrave H, Roberts T, Khan T, Ojji D, Ordunez P.: Addressing Failures in Achieving Hypertension Control in Low- and Middle-Income Settings through Simplified Treatment Algorithms. Glob Heart 17: 28, Apr 2022.

Campbell NRC, Paccot Burnens M, Whelton PK, Angell SY, Jaffe MG, Cohn J, Espinosa Brito A, Irazola V, Brettler JW, Roccella EJ, Maldonado Figueredo JI, Rosende A, Ordunez P.: 2021 World Health Organization guideline on pharmacological treatment of hypertension: Policy implications for the region of the Americas. Lancet Reg Health Am 2022.

Vasiliu A, Eymard-Duvernay S, Tchounga B, Atwine D, de Carvalho E, Ouedraogo S, Kakinda M, Tchendjou P, Turyahabwe S, Kuate AK, Tiendrebeogo G, Dodd PJ, Graham SM, Cohn J, Casnghi M, Bonnet M: Community intervention for child tuberculosis active contact investigation and management: Study protocol for a parallel cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials 22(1): 180, March 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1186/s13063-021-05124-9.

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