Jessica Cohen

Biographic Data

ID3582709
NAMEJessica Cohen
GIVEN NAMESJessica
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN J
AFFILIATIONSHarvard Global Health Institute
ORCID0000-0002-9458-2093
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS123
WORKS AS AUTHOR37
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Impact of a long-term mentorship program for childbirth providers on quality of care

    Open AccessLujia Zhang, Rajet Vatsa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Maternal and neonatal mortality rates remain high in sub-Saharan Africa despite increased facility-based childbirth, reflecting persistent gaps in quality of care. We evaluated the impact of MENTORS, a facility based nurse mentorship and training program, on provider knowledge and childbirth care quality. In an unblinded parallel-arm cluster randomized controlled trial conducted between November 2021, 40 health facilities in Kenya were randomized…

  • Prenatal Syphilis Screening Mandates and Maternal Syphilis Case Detection

    Open AccessSarah E Baum, Leila Agha et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2026

    In this study, expanded prenatal syphilis screening mandates may improve syphilis case detection in the near-term but are unlikely to have sustained impact without complementary efforts, such as those that facilitate clinician adherence and ensure patient access to and completion of treatment

  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Out-of-Pocket Spending for Maternity Care

    Open AccessRebecca A Gourevitch, Jessica Cohen et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    In this study, differences in out-of-pocket maternity spending among the commercially insured were associated with differences in coinsurance rates. These costs could lead people to forgo needed health care or other basic needs that support health (eg, food or housing). Changes to health plan benefit design could improve equity in out-of-pocket maternity spending and its consequences

  • “How I wish we could manage such things”

    Open AccessNora Miller, Junita Henry et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Maternal mortality rates in Kenya have remained high, with the country reporting 342 deaths per 100,000 live births. A major contributor to this is postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), responsible for 40% of maternal deaths in Kenya and the leading cause globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Timely and effective PPH care is crucial; however, challenges arise when referrals between facilities become necessary. Although Primary health…

  • Health impact and cost-effectiveness of expanding routine immunization coverage in India through Intensified Mission Indradhanush

    Open AccessEmma Clarke-Deelder, Christian Suharlim et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2024

    Many children do not receive a full schedule of childhood vaccines, yet there is limited evidence on the cost-effectiveness of strategies for improving vaccination coverage. Evidence is even scarcer on the cost-effectiveness of strategies for reaching ‘zero-dose children’, who have not received any routine vaccines. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of periodic intensification of routine immunization (PIRI), a widely applied strategy for increa…

  • Quality of care for postpartum hemorrhage

    Open AccessEmma Clarke-Deelder, Kennedy Opondo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality in Kenya. The aim of this study was to measure quality and timeliness of care for PPH in a sample of deliveries in referral hospitals in Kenya. We conducted direct observations of 907 vaginal deliveries in three Kenyan hospitals from October 2018 through February 2019, observing the care women received from admission for labor and delivery through hospital discharge. We identi…

  • From biorepositories to data repositories

    Open AccessRoger Peck, Helen L Storey et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Diagnostics are critical tools that guide clinical decision-making for patient care and support disease surveillance. Despite its importance, developers and manufacturers often note that access to specimen panels and essential reagents is one of the key challenges in developing quality diagnostics, particularly in low-resource settings. A recent example, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded there was a need for clinical samples across the globe to s…

  • Dietary traits of the ungulates from the Middle Pleistocene sequence of Lazaret Cave

    Open AccessF Rivals, Jessica Cohen et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2023Cited by: 2References: 25

    Dietary traits in ungulates from Lazaret Cave were analysed for possible changes in ecological niches throughout the marine isotopic stage (MIS) 6 sequence of the site and to investigate the duration of the occupations corresponding to the accumulation of ungulate remains by human groups. The analysis revealed changes in dietary diversity throughout the sequence related to the climatic and environmental changes of the MIS 6. These changes affecte…

  • Health care provider decision-making and the quality of maternity care

    Open AccessDan Han, Emma Clarke-Deelder et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023References: 40

  • Sources of opposition to renewable energy projects in the United States

    Open AccessLawrence Susskind, Jungwoo Chun et al.ARTICLEEnergy Policy2022

    Many policy analysts believe that once electricity from renewable energy becomes less expensive than electricity from fossil fuel, new renewable energy facilities will be built quickly across the United States. Cost-effective renewable energy has largely been achieved, but there appear to be substantial barriers to building new renewable energy facilities. We identified 53 utility-scale wind, solar, and geothermal energy projects that were delaye…

  • Levels of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress among Ugandan adults during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessEmma Clarke-Deelder, Slawa Rokicki et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2022

    There is an urgent need to address the significant burden of psychological distress associated with COVID-19 and policy responses in LMICs. Pandemic mitigation strategies must consider mental health consequences

  • Impact of campaign-style delivery of routine vaccines

    Open AccessEmma Clarke-Deelder, Christian Suharlim et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    The world is not on track to achieve the goals for immunization coverage and equity described by the World Health Organization’s Global Vaccine Action Plan. Many countries struggle to increase coverage of routine vaccination, and there is little evidence about how to do so effectively. In India in 2016, only 62% of children had received a full course of basic vaccines. In response, in 2017–18 the government implemented Intensified Mission Indradh…

  • Postpartum Cliffs—Missed Opportunities to Promote Maternal Health in the United States

    Open AccessJessica Cohen, Jessica L Cohen et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2021

    In April 2021, the Biden-Harris administration signed a proclamation committing to address the maternal health crisis in America, where the maternal mortality rate is far higher than comparable countries and Black and Indigenous people are 2 to 3 times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than White people. 1 Tangible improvements in maternal health will require coordinated clinical and policy changes to improve support during the postp…

  • Association of Prenatal Care Services, Maternal Morbidity, and Perinatal Mortality With the Advanced Maternal Age Cutoff of 35 Years

    Open AccessCaroline K Geiger, Mark A Clapp et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2021

    In this cross-sectional study, the AMA designation at age 35 years was associated with an increase in receipt of prenatal monitoring and a small decrease in perinatal mortality, suggesting that the AMA designation may be associated with clinical decision-making, with individuals just older than 35 years receiving more prenatal monitoring. These results suggest that increases in prenatal care services stemming from the AMA designation may have imp…

  • Associations between insurance-related affordable care act policy changes with HPV vaccine completion

    Open AccessSummer Sherburne Hawkin, Krisztina Horváth et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Despite low HPV vaccine completion overall, both sets of ACA provisions were associated with increases in completion among females and males. Our results suggest that expanding Medicaid across the remaining states could increase HPV vaccine completion among publicly-insured youth and prevent HPV-related cancers

  • Bypassing high-quality maternity facilities

    Open AccessDorit T Stein, Ginger Golub et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021Cited by: 1References: 32

    Utilization of high-quality maternal care is an important link along the pathway from increased facility-based delivery to improved maternal health outcomes, however women in Nairobi do not all deliver in the highest quality facilities available to them. We explored whether women living in peri-urban Nairobi who live nearby to high-quality facilities bypassed, or travelled farther than, their nearest high technical quality facility using survey d…

  • Understanding Mechanisms Driving Family Homeless Shelter Use and Child Mental Health

    Katherine E Marcal, Patrick J Fowler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Service Research2021Cited by: 4References: 32

    Homeless shelters throughout the U.S. are overcrowded and under-resourced. Families with children face substantial barriers to timely, successful shelter exit, and prolonged shelter stays threaten child mental health. This community-based system dynamics study explored barriers to timely, successful shelter exit and feedback mechanisms driving length of stay and child mental health risk. Group model building - a participatory systems science tool…

  • Almost There

    Etgar Keret, Jessica CohenARTICLECommon Knowledge2021

    When I see a little boy throw a tantrum on the sidewalk because his parents won't buy him an ice cream—I'm for him.When I watch a bronzed cop hassle an old drunk in the town square and ask for his papers—I'm against him.When I get woken up by a cat in heat yowling under my apartment window—I understand her.When I hear a siren tear through the night, I pray for the health of whoever is in the ambulance.I pray, without even believing in god.I wante…

  • Behavioural insights to support increased consumption of quality protein maize by young children

    Open AccessKatherine Donato, Molly Mcconnell et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Biofortified crops have tremendous potential to improve child nutrition. We tested whether complementing the distribution of quality protein maize (QPM) with a package of interventions informed by behavioural insights could support greater consumption of QPM by young children and translate into improved growth. METHODS: We conducted a cluster-randomised trial in Oromia, Ethiopia. Clusters of households with a child between 6 and 35 …

  • Contraceptive Counseling in the Postpartum Period

    Open AccessKari Harris, Siddharthan Sivamurthy et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2020

  • BRCA1/2 Testing in Massachusetts Among Women With Private Insurance or Medicaid, 2011–2015

    Lydia E Pace, Christopher F Baum et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2020References: 13

    PURPOSE: Testing for BRCA1/2 mutations has increased among privately insured women in the United States. However, little is known about testing rates or trends among women with Medicaid. We sought to determine whether BRCA1/2 testing rates differed between women with private insurance compared with women with Medicaid in a state where both insurance types cover the test, and to compare testing trends from 2011 to 2015. METHODS: We conducted a ret…

  • The impact of packaging and messaging on adherence to malaria treatment

    Open AccessJessica Cohen, Indrani SaranARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2018Cited by: 1References: 4

    Despite substantial public and private costs of non-adherence to infectious disease treatments, patients often do not finish their medication. We explore adherence to medication for malaria, a major cause of morbidity and health system costs in Africa. We conducted a randomized trial in Uganda testing specialized packaging and messaging, designed to increase antimalarial adherence. We find that stickers with short, targeted messages on the packag…

  • Inference With Difference-in-Differences With a Small Number of Groups

    Slawa Rokicki, Jessica Cohen et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2018References: 32

    BACKGROUND: Difference-in-differences (DID) estimation has become increasingly popular as an approach to evaluate the effect of a group-level policy on individual-level outcomes. Several statistical methodologies have been proposed to correct for the within-group correlation of model errors resulting from the clustering of data. Little is known about how well these corrections perform with the often small number of groups observed in health resea…

  • New Evidence on the Impact of Large-scale Conditional Cash Transfers on Child Vaccination Rates

    Open AccessDian Kusuma, Hasbullah Thabrany et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2017Cited by: 3References: 2

  • Impact of a Text-Messaging Program on Adolescent Reproductive Health

    Slawa Rokicki, Jessica Cohen et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2017Cited by: 1References: 24

    Objectives. To evaluate whether text-messaging programs can improve reproductive health among adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries. Methods. We conducted a cluster–randomized controlled trial among 756 female students aged 14 to 24 years in Accra, Ghana, in 2014. We randomized 38 schools to unidirectional intervention (n = 12), interactive intervention (n = 12), and control (n = 14). The unidirectional intervention sent participan…