Jennifer E. Cohn - Faculty Biosketch

Jennifer E. Cohn, MD MPH

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

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Department: Medicine

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13 Education:
21 7 BA 27 (Human Biology & Psychology) c
29 Brown University, 1999.
21 7 MD c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2004.
21 8 MPH 1a (Global Health) c
3e Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2011.
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 5c Intern in Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2005.
24 5e Resident in Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2007.
24 7c Infectious Diseases Fellow, Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2007-2009.
24 48 MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 2008-2011.
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17 Certifications
28 3c American Board of Internal Medicine, 2007.
28 50 Infectious Diseases American Board of Internal Medicine, 2009.
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Selected Publications

175 Vrinda Nampoothiri, Ritika Kondel Bhandari, Avaneesh Kumar Pandey, Oluchi Mbamalu, Jennifer Cohn, Sanjeev Singh, Marc Mendelson, Nusrat Shafiq, Esmita Charani: Responding to and managing antibiotic shortages: a qualitative study with experts and opinion leaders. Wellcome Open Research 10: 347, 2025.

2c 206 Martina Penazzato, Asma Hafiz, Sébastien Morin, Farihah Malik, Bernadette Cappello, Jennifer Cohn, Tim R Cressey, Patricia Fassinou, Anthony J Garcia-Prats, Luann Hatane, Janice Soo Fern Lee, Tiziana Masini, Atieno Ojoo, Theodore Ruel, David Ruiz Villafranca, Marie Valentin, John C Reeder: Accelerating access to paediatric medicines: lessons learned from the Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations, a WHO-hosted network. Lancet Child and Adolescent Health 9(5): 337-348, 2025.

1b7 Kunihiro Matsushita, Sonia Y Angell, Lawrence J Appel, Helen Bygrave, Jennifer Cohn, Robert Kalyesubula, Prabhdeep Kaur, Andrew E Moran, Margaret Mswema, Veronica Schoj, Aletta E Schutte, Ruitai Shao, Xin-Hua Zhang, Pedro Ordunez, Taskeen Khan: Priorities for research on hypertension care delivery: a WHO report executive summary. Hypertension 82(6): 971-976, 2025.

2c 11f Anant Mishra, Rahul Dwivedi, Kim Faure, Daniel J Morgan, Jennifer Cohn: Estimated undertreatment of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections in eight low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study. Lancet Infectious Diseases 2025.

1aa Morgan K Walker, Emad A Chishti, Christina Yek, Sadia Sarzynski, Sahil Angelo, Jennifer Cohn, Alicia A Livinski, Sameer S Kadri: Using a Difficult-to-treat Resistance Index to Gauge Imbalance between Countries’ Antibiotic Resistance Prevalence and Access to Antibiotics: A Scoping Review and Concept Proposal. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 2025.

103 Cohn J, Balasegaram M, Srinivasan H, Menghaney L, Mpundu M, Waning B, Alimi Y.: Improving equitable access for effective antibacterial: an ecosystem approach. Clin Microbiol Infect 2025.

1bd Avaneesh Kumar Pandey, Nusrat Shafiq, Ritika Kondel Bhandari, Vrinda Nampoothiri, Jennifer Cohn, Alison Holmes, Anne-Gete Marsten, Sanjeev Singh, Marc Mendelson, Samir Malhotra, Esmita Charani: A living systematic review on anti-HIV, anti-TB and anti-malarial drug unavailability and their impact on infection management. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2025.

11c Ursula Theuretzbacher, Ravindra P Jumde, Alan Hennessy, Jennifer Cohn, Laura JV Piddock: Global health perspectives on antibacterial drug discovery and the preclinical pipeline. Nature Reviews Microbiology 2025.

17c Motta F, Nizamuddin S, Khan E, Muraya T, Vega S, Fadare J, Koya SF, Villegas MV, Sultan F, Lumley T, Dwivedi R, Jankelowitz L, Cohn J.: A Landscaping Assessment and Call-to-Action to Improve Access to Novel Reserve Antibiotics in 14 Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Public Health Chall 3: e70005, Oct 2024.

17f Lemaire JF, Cohn J, Kakayeva S, et al.: Improving TB detection among children in routine clinical care through intensified case finding in facility-based child health entry points and decentralized management: A before-and-after study in Nine Sub-Saharan African Countries. PLOS Glob Public Health 5(4), 2024.

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