Jacky Jennings, MPH, PhD
Highlights
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleJohns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Jacky Jennings
Professional Titles
- Director, Center for Child & Community Health Research (CCHR)
- Vice Chair, Johns Hopkins Bayview Scientific Advisory Board
- Director, Biostatistics, Epidemiology And Data management (BEAD) Core
- Associate Director, General Pediatrics
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Pediatrics
Background
Dr. Jacky M. Jennings is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with three joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health including the Department of Epidemiology, Health, Behavior and Society, and Population, Family and Reproductive Health. She earned her Master of Public Health and her doctoral degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
She serves as Director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology And Data management (BEAD) Core and Director of the Center for Child and Community Health Research. She is also the Vice-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr. Jennings’ research focuses on the social epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. She has established national prominence and leadership as an epidemiologist with a focus on improving the health of children, adolescents, and young adults—particularly those that reside in urban, disadvantaged communities. She is the PI of an NIH funded Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), the Johns Hopkins Project Blantyre, Malawi and the PI of a large multi-site CDC-funded study led by a UAB-JHU-UPitt consortium.
Dr. Jennings has served on the board of the International Society for STD Research (ISSTDR) and serves on two Editorial Boards. She teaches a course to graduate public health students on how to conduct epidemiologic investigations of outbreaks, and she mentors students from the undergraduate to post-graduate level.
Centers and Institutes
- BEAD Core
- Child & Community Health Research (CCHR), Center for
- The Johns Hopkins Blantyre Clinical Trials Unit (CTU)
- Global Health, Center for
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Research, Center for
- Urban Health Institute
Contact for Research Inquiries
5200 Eastern Avenue
Mason Lord Bldg Center
Baltimore, MD
Phone: (410) 550-4132
Jennings@jhmi.edu
Research Interests
Adolescents, Behavior, Epidemiology, GIS, Sexually transmitted infection (STI) HIV, infectious disease transmission dynamics, Social epidemiology, Spatial analyses, Surveillance, methods
Core Facility
Research Summary
Dr. Jennings’ primary research contributions are in the area of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV transmission dynamics with a specific interest in determining the mechanisms through which place plays a role in local transmission dynamics causing endemic rates of STIs and HIV. Secondarily, she has begun to make significant research contributions in the application of epidemiologic principles to the translation of research questions in pediatrics.
She collaborates closely with the Baltimore City Health Department and is the lead on an initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control to decrease HIV transmission in Baltimore City through the identification of high HIV transmission areas. The project will involve enhancing screening and testing in identified areas as well as public health detailing to primary care providers.
Dr. Jennings collaborates with colleagues within and outside the Division on a wide array of health outcomes including pelvic inflammatory disease, pediatric obesity, intimate partner violence, cardiology and sickle cell disease. She also teaches and advises graduate public health and medical school students.
Research Gate
Selected Publications
- Grieb SM, Jackman KM, Tilchin C, Clark C, Sawyer S, USHINE Community Advisory Board, Rives S, Childs L, Jennings JM. Recommendations from Black sexual minority men: Building trust to improve engagement and impact of HIV/STI research. Health Promot Pract. 2021 May; 22(3):392-4
- Fields EL, Thornton N, Huettner S, Schumacher C, Barrow G, Greenbaum A, Jennings JM. Safe Spaces 4 Sexual Health: A Status-Neutral, Mobile Van, HIV/STI Testing Intervention Using Online Outreach to Reach MSM at High Risk for HIV Acquisition or Transmission. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2022 Jul 1;90(S1):S84-S89.. PMID: 35703759; PMCID: PMC9204786.
- Jennings JM, Grieb SM, Rietmeijer C, Gaydos CA, Hawkins R, Thurston RC, Blanchard J, Cameron CE, Lewis DA. Advancing Sexual Harassment Prevention and Elimination in the Sciences: “Every sexual health organization must do something similar.” Sex Transm Dis. 2022 Oct 1;49(10):663-668.
- Leifheit KM, Schwartz GL, Pollack CE, Althoff KN, Lê-Scherban F, Black MM, Jennings JM. The concurrence of cost-driven moves and disrupted social safety net access among low-income, urban children. Pediatrics. 2024. 153 (3): e2023061934.
- Schumacher CM, Thornton N, Craig T, Tilchin C, Fields E, Ghanem KG, Hamill MM, Latkin C, Rompalo A, Ruhs S, Jennings JM. Syphilis positivity among men who have sex with men (MSM) with direct, indirect, and no linkage to female sex partners: Exploring the potential for sex network bridging in Baltimore City, MD. Sex Transm Dis. 2024 Jul 16. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000002051. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39008632.
Courses & Syllabi
Epidemiologic Inference in Outbreak Investigations, 340.653.01
Honors
- Excellence in Teaching Academy Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1/1/11
- Selected, Women in Leadership Program, Office of Women in Science and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1/1/10
- Selected participant, International Social Systems and Health Workshop, 1/1/10
- Two mentees, New Investigator Award Finalist, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 1/1/09
Graduate Program Affiliations
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Epidemiology
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Population, Family & Reproductive Health
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Health, Behavior & Society
Memberships
- International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research (ISSTDR)
- International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI)
- American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA)
Professional Activities
- Bayview Scientific Advisory Board (BSAB), Vice Chair
- International Society for STD Research (ISSTDR), Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 1/1/12
- NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet), Study Section Reviewer for Social Sciences and Health Outcomes RFA (PAR-09-224),, 1/1/11
- Social and Behavioral Track Committee, Committee Member, 1/1/01 - 1/1/12