Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity
jj3222@drexel.edu
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Degrees

PhD, Population Health Sciences, Harvard University
MPH, Women, Gender and Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
BA, Psychology, Barnard College of Columbia University

Bio

Jaquelyn (Jackie) Jahn, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity.

She is an epidemiologist whose research investigates the ways that structural racism and other societal structures shape maternal and child health and population health equity. Much of her work focuses on the health of individuals, families, and communities that are affected by the U.S. criminal legal system. She works in partnership with interdisciplinary research teams, advocates, and policymakers to advance community health, safety, and wellbeing.

She received her PhD in Population Health Sciences from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she also received her MPH.

Research Interests

• Social Epidemiology
• Structural Racism and Health
• Quantitative Methods for Health Inequities
• Urban Health
• Maternal and Child Health
• Spatial Analysis or GIS
• Violence and Trauma

Publications

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Lawrence JA, Jahn JL, Shi J, Himmelstein KEW, Feldman JM, Linos N, Bassett MT. Reparations for African Enslavement in the U.S. and Black Survival Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. American Journal of Epidemiol. 2024 Nov 29:kwae444. Epub ahead of print.

Jahn JL, Simes JT, Jay J. Evaluating Firearm Violence After New Jersey's Cash Bail Reform. JAMA Network Open. 2024 May 1;7(5):e2412535.

Riley T, Schleimer JP, Jahn JL. Organized abandonment under racial capitalism: Measuring accountable actors of structural racism for public health research and action. Social Science & Medicine. 2024 Feb;343:116576.

Jahn JL, Zubizarreta D, Chen JT, Needham BL, Samari G, McGregor AJ, Douglas MD, Austin SB, Agénor M. Legislating Inequity: Structural racism in groups of state laws and associations with premature mortality rates. Health Affairs. 42 (10);1325-1333. Oct 2023.

Jahn JL, Simes JT. Prenatal Healthcare After Sentencing Reform: Heterogeneous Effects for Prenatal Healthcare Access and Equity. BMC Public Health. 22(1):954. May 2022.

Simes JT, Jahn JL. The Consequences of Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act for Police Arrests. PLOS ONE.17(1):e026512. Jan 2022.

Jahn JL, Krieger N, Agénor M, Leung M, Davis BA, Weisskopf MG, Chen JT. Gestational Exposure to Fatal Police Violence and Pregnancy Loss in U.S. Core Based Statistical Areas, 2013-2015. Lancet EClinicalMedicine. 36:100901. May 2021

Schwartz GL, Jahn JL. Mapping Fatal Police Violence across US Cities: Overall Rates and Racial/Ethnic Inequities, 2013-2017. PLOS ONE. 2020; 15(6).

See Dr. Jahn's complete list of publications on Google Scholar