Regional Variation in Antenatal Late Preterm Steroid Use Following the ALPS Trial.
Freret TS, Cohen JL, Gyamfi-Bannerman C, Kaimal AJ, Lorch SA, Wright JD, Melamed A, Clapp MA.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jan 02. 7(1):e2350830. PMID: 38194234
Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Global Health
Global Health and Population
Dr. Cohen is a health and behavioral economist whose research uses randomized controlled trials and other rigorous quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the impact of maternal and child health programs and policies, both in the United States and East African countries. Dr. Cohen's research explores the behavioral channels by which health policies translate into health outcomes, with the aim of embedding this evidence into policy design and increasing policy impact. Dr. Cohen has conducted randomized controlled trials to evaluate the impact of incentives, subsidies, information, and decision architecture on health seeking behavior and health outcomes in the domains of malaria and maternal health from the prenatal through the postnatal period. Her research uses concepts from economics and psychology to explore drivers of critical health behaviors including maternity care seeking, postpartum contraception, and child nutrition. She also has used various quasi-experimental designs to evaluate the impact of large health policy and health system changes on population health, including malaria pharmaceutical subsidy policies and maternity provider payment models. Current work explores drivers of maternity provider behavior, including quality of care during labor and delivery and provision of postpartum contraception.
Dr. Cohen's work has been been published widely in top economics and public health journals and has been referenced in major national and international publications. She has won a mentorship award and a teaching award from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research on subsidy policies for insecticide treated nets was deemed by Vox as a top social science paper of the decade. Dr. Cohen was a member of the WHO Global Malaria Program's Technical Expert Group on Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation and has served on NIH expert review panels related to implementation science and impact evaluation.
Dr. Cohen received her bachelor's degree in Economics from Wesleyan University and her PhD in Economics from MIT, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
PhD, 02/2008, Economics
MIT, Massachusetts
BA, 05/2000, Economics
Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Freret TS, Cohen JL, Gyamfi-Bannerman C, Kaimal AJ, Lorch SA, Wright JD, Melamed A, Clapp MA.
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jan 02. 7(1):e2350830. PMID: 38194234
Chang W, Cohen J, Wang DQ, Abdulla S, Mahende MK, Gavana T, Scott V, Msuya HM, Mwanyika-Sando M, Njau RJA, Lu SN, Temu S, Masanja H, Anthony W, Aregawi W M, Sunder N, Kun T, Bruxvoort K, Kitau J, Kihwele F, Chila G, Michael M, Castro M, Menzies NA, Kim S, Ning X, Zhou XN, Chaki P, Mlacha YP.
Infect Dis Poverty. 2023 Dec 18. 12(1):116. PMID: 38105258
Li Z, Wang H, Chen S, Kong Y, Xie L, Zhang X, Lu C, Subramanian SV, Cohen JL, Atun R.
Lancet Public Health. 2023 Dec. 8(12):e933-e942. PMID: 38000888
Han D, Clarke-Deelder E, Miller N, Opondo K, Burke T, Oguttu M, McConnell M, Cohen J.
Soc Sci Med. 2023 08. 331:116071. PMID: 37450989
Clarke-Deelder E, Opondo K, Achieng E, Garg L, Han D, Henry J, Guha M, Lightbourne A, Makin J, Miller N, Otieno B, Borovac-Pinheiro A, Suarez-Rebling D, Menzies NA, Burke T, Oguttu M, McConnell M, Cohen J.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023. 3(3):e0001670. PMID: 36963063
Wang H, Li Z, Chen S, Qin W, Xie L, Kong Y, Cohen J, Lu C, Liang W.
Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2023 Feb. 31:100635. PMID: 36879791
Henry J, Clarke-Deelder E, Han D, Miller N, Opondo K, Oguttu M, Burke T, Cohen JL, McConnell M.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2022 Nov 10. 22(1):828. PMID: 36357842
Clarke-Deelder E, Opondo K, Oguttu M, Burke T, Cohen JL, McConnell M.
Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2023 02. 5(2S):100764. PMID: 36216312
Steenland MW, Vatsa R, Pace LE, Cohen JL.
JAMA Netw Open. 2022 10 03. 5(10):e2237918. PMID: 36269353
Rokicki S, Steenland MW, Geiger CK, Gourevitch RA, Chen L, Martin MW, Cohen JL.
Health Serv Res. 2022 12. 57(6):1342-1347. PMID: 36059179
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