Overview

Dr. Jennifer Pellowski (she/her) is currently a Senior Scientist/Grant Writer  at Hartford Healthcare in Connecticut. She maintains an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town.

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 and Rhode Island Hospital. She has also completed training in implementation science through the competitive NIH TIDIRH program.

Dr Pellowski is interested in the 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

She is passionate about the mentorship of students and is an active mentor of PhD, MPH, and undergraduate students and early career faculty members. Additionally, she is dedicated to capacity-building and training South African researchers.

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