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.

Anne E. Brisendine, DrPH CHES
Assistant Professor of Public Health Practice, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health

Bethany Kotlar, MPH, PMP
PhD Candidate, 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

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

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

Michael Kramer, PhD, MMSc
Associate Professor, Epidemiology Department, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health

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