Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Overview

Dr. Jennifer Pellowski (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the International Health Institute at Brown University School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2015 and then completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship in Child/Adolescent Biobehavioral HIV research at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital. She has also completed training in implementation science through the competitive NIH TIDIRH program.

Dr Pellowski is interested in implementation of interventions, treatments, and technologies to improve women's, parental and child health across the lifespan. She conducts research domestically and internationally, largely in South Africa. She has active projects on PrEP implementation among OB/GYNs to improve uptake among cis-women and is studying the impacts of HIV and early life infection on child/adolescent cardiometabolic health

Dr. Pellowski runs an active research lab titled Women's Health Interventions and Transitions (WHIT) Research Group, which is comprised of PhD, MPH, and undergraduate students. Additionally, she is dedicated to capacity-building and training South African researchers.

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