The overarching goal of the project “Birth Beyond Bars: Assessing Caregiver and Infant Needs” is to gain a better understanding of the context in which the caregivers of the babies of incarcerated women are operating and what challenges they face across health, finances, and housing, and how those variables impact the infants and their health outcomes. Jenna Sherman is an MPH student in the department of Social Behavioral Sciences, where she concentrates in ‘Maternal and Child Health’ and ‘Humanitarian Studies, Ethics, and Human Rights.’ She is also a Senior Project Coordinator at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society where she works on tech ethics with a focus on bias and discrimination in AI. Jenna’s interests in public health are manifold, but primarily fall along the following two themes 1) reproductive justice in settings that are conducive to or reinforce trauma (e.g. prisons, refugee camps, detention centers), and 2) digital health, with particular interests in misinformation online and AI bias in healthcare. Hailing from Alabama, Jenna is a lover of all fried food and enjoys spending time dancing and playing with her cat, Dolly.
