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 a social epidemiologist whose research investigates how structural racism shapes 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 applies a multilevel, intersectional lens to evaluate the health consequences of policing and incarceration, as well as the role of policies and social movements advancing 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

Lawrence JA, Shi J, Jahn JL, Himmelstein KEW, Feldman JM, Basset MT. Methodological Approaches to Structural Change: Epidemiology and the Case for Reparations. Am J Epidemiol. Forthcoming.

Schnake-Mahl A, Jahn JL. Policies that support working parents and gender health equity: needed research and methodological challenges. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Jul 16:kwae223. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae223. Epub ahead of print.

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

Riley T, Jahn JL, Sharif MZ, Enquobahrie DA, Hajat A. Neighbourhood-level policing as a racialised gendered stressor: multilevel analysis of police stops and preterm birth in Seattle, Washington. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2024 Aug 9;78(9):537-543. doi: 10.1136/jech-2024-222216. PMID: 38782545.

Xu Y, McClure LA, Quick H, Jahn JL, Zakeri I, Headen I, Tabb LP, A two–stage bayesian model for assessing the geography of racialized economic segregation and premature mortality across US counties, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, Volume 49, 2024, 100652

Dyer L, Judson J, Jahn JL, Wallace M. Investigating the Black Birth Experience: A Race-Stratified Analysis of Preterm Birth Risk and Exposure to Metropolitan Statistical Area-Level Police-Related Deaths, US 2018-2019. J Urban Health. 2024 Jun;101(3):464-472. Epub 2024 May 16.

Jahn JL, Schwartz GL. Who are the "police" in "police violence"? Fatal violence by U.S. law enforcement agencies across levels of government. Inj Epidemiol. 2024 Apr 4;11(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s40621-024-00496-3. PMID: 38575984; PMCID: PMC10993425.

Zubizarreta D, Beccia AL, Chen JT, Jahn JL, Austin SB, Agénor M. Structural Racism-Related State Laws and Healthcare Access Among Black, Latine, and White U.S. Adults. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2024 Mar 28. doi: 10.1007/s40615-024-01976-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38546945.

Riley T, Schleimer JP, Jahn JL. Organized abandonment under racial capitalism: Measuring accountable actors of structural racism for public health research and action. Soc Sci Med. 2024 Feb;343:116576. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116576. Epub 2024 Jan 12. PMID: 38237286.

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.

Simes JT, Cowger TL, Jahn JL. School closures significantly reduced arrests of Black and Latinx urban youth. PLoS One. 18(7):e0287701. Jul 2023.

Schnake-Mahl A, Jahn JL. Forced Birth and No Time off Work: Mapping Abortion Access and Paid Family Leave Policies. Am J Prev Med. S0749-3797(23)00200-3. Apr 2023.

Jahn JL, Wallace M, Hardeman R, Theall K. Neighborhood Proactive Policing and Racial Inequities in Preterm Birth in New Orleans, 2018-2019. Am J Public Health. 113(S1):S21-S28. Jan 2023.

Schwartz GL, Jahn JL, Geller A. Policing Sexuality: Sexual Minority Youth, Police Contact, and Health Inequity. SSM Population Health. 20:101292. Nov 2022

Schwartz GL, Jahn JL. Mapping Fatal Police Violence across US Cities: Overall Rates and Racial/Ethnic Inequities, 2013-2017. PLoS One. 15(6): e0229686. Jun 2020.

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