The Cross-Center Collaboration on the Health of Justice-Involved Women and Children (JIWC) is a group of HRSA-funded faculty, staff and trainees working on research, policy, training issues and topics at the intersection of incarceration and MCH. We are affiliated with the Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Education, Science and Practice located at the UMN, UIC, Harvard and Emory.
Andrea Smith
Reproductive Justice Research Assistant, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
Anne E. Brisendine, DrPH CHES
Assistant Professor of Public Health Practice, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health
Bethany Kotlar, MPH, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Director, Maternal Health Task Force
Crystal M. Hayes
PhD, MSW, Birth Doula at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
Dylan B. Jackson, PhD
Co-Director, Health Criminology Research Consortium, Assistant Professor, Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ellen Mason, MD
Adjunct Professor, University of Illinois
Internal Medicine Physician, Cook County Health and Hospital Systems
Heather A. Olden
MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Henning Tiemeier, MA, MD, PhD
Professor of Social and Behavioral Science, Sumner and Esther Feldberg Chair of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Janella Kang
MS candidate, Global and Population Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jenna Sherman
MPH Candidate, Maternal and Child Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Senior Project Coordinator at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Jennifer B. Saunders, MSW
PhD Candidate in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration at University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Juliette Frazier
Program Manager, Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Kaitlin Piper, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral, Social and Health Education Sciences at Rollins School of Public Health
Karenna Thomas, MPH
Researcher at University of Minnesota Medical School
Katherine (Kat) Theall, MPH, PhD
Professor and Director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Michael Kramer, PhD, MMSc
Associate Professor, Epidemiology Department, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Rebecca Shlafer, PHD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Regan Moss, MPH
PhD student in the Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences at Tulane University
Sara Benning
Director, University of Minnesota, Center for Leadership Education in Maternal & Child Public Health
Sarah Blake, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Silke von Esenwein, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Vijaya Kancherla, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology Department, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health