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Education and Training
| PhD
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| Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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Co-Director, Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core Co-Director, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
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| Dr. Jennifer Hirsch's research focuses on gender, sexuality, and reproductive health, U.S.-Mexico migration and migrant health, the applications of anthropological theory and methods to public health research and programs, and faith-based approaches to public health. Her published work has appeared in journals such as American Journal of Public Health and Culture Health and Sexuality, and in 2002, the University of California Press published her landmark study, "A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families", exploring changing ideas and practices of love, sexuality and marriage among Mexicans in the U.S. and in Mexico. Her major current project is an NIH-funded comparative ethnographic study that explores the factors that put married women at risk for HIV infection in five countries; Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and Papua-New Guinea.
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Selected Professional Affiliations |
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Co-Chair, Sexuality Task Force, American Public Health Association |
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| Selected Honors and Awards |
| ▪ Outstanding Young Professional Award, Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Section, APHA , 2002 |
| ▪ Carl Schulz Award, Johns Hopkins University, 1997 |
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Selected Global Activities
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| Love, Marriage and HIV
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This study is an NIH-funded ethnographic research project exploring the factors that put women at risk for HIV infection. Dr. Hirsch is working collaboratively with investigators from Brown University, University of Toronto, Washington University, and the University of Washington to conduct fieldwork that explores how social, cultural, and economic factors combine to shape married women's HIV risk.
Countries: Mexico; Nigeria; Papua New Guinea; Uganda; Vietnam
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| Mexico-US Migration: Reproductive Health and HIV Risk
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Through a series of ongoing studies in rural Mexico and a field site in the southeastern U.S., Dr. Hirsch and colleagues are exploring how migration reshapes gender and sexuality and influences reproductive health.
Countries: Mexico
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Selected Publications |
Jennifer S. Hirsch and Holly Wardlow "Modern Loves: The Anthropology of Romantic Love and Companionate Marriage" University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor, MI 2006
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