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Jenny A. Higgins
Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health
Biography:
Jenny A. Higgins, PhD, MPH, is a feminist researcher and sexual health advocate. She employs mixed methods approaches (especially qualitative) to explore relationships between sexuality, gender, and the use of condoms and other contraceptive methods. Dr. Higgins also studies how women's and men's sexual pleasure-seeking influences the risk of HIV and unintended pregnancy, and how pleasure can be used to promote safer sex. After receiving her PhD in women?s studies and MPH in global health from Emory University, Dr. Higgins completed postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University?s HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and Princeton University?s Office of Population Research.
Education & Training:
MPH, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 2005
PhD, Emory University, 2005
Affiliation(s):
University Affiliations:
Honors and Awards:
- Outstanding Young Professional Award, American Public Health Association, Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health Section, 2010
- Blossoming Professional Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, 2007
- Outstanding Student Research Award, National Women?s Studies Association, 2004
- Women's Health Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson/Johnson & Johnson Foundation, 2003
- Outstanding Student Research Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, 2003
- Member, Editorial Board, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Sex Research
Selected Editorial Boards
Selected
Global
Activities:
Global
Activities:
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Rakai Youth Project
Five year NIH study of youth (18-24 year olds) and HIV infection in the Rakai region of Uganda.
Countries: Uganda
Selected Publications:
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Higgins, JA, Hoffman, S, and Dworkin, SL. "Rethinking Gender, Heterosexual Men, and "Women's Vulnerability" to HIV/AIDS" American Journal of Public Health 100 433-444 2010
Higgins, JA, Trussell, J, Davidson, JK, Sr, and Moore, NB "The Language of Love?--Verbal versus Implied Consent at First Sexual Intercourse: Implications for Sexual Health" American Journal of Health Education 41 218-230 2010
Higgins, JA, Tanner AE, and Janssen, E "Arousal Loss Associated with Condoms and Risk of Pregnancy: Implications for Women's and Men's Sexual Risk Behaviors" Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 41(3) 150-175 2009
Jones, RK, Fennell, J, Higgins, JA, and Blanchard, K "'Better than Nothing' or Savvy Risk Reduction Practice? The Importance of Withdrawal" Contraception 79(6) 407-410 2009
Higgins, JA, Hoffman, S, Graham, C, and Sanders, S "Relationships between Contraceptive Method and Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction: Results from the Women's Wellbeing and Sexuality Study" Sexual Health 5(4) 321-330 2008
Higgins, JA and Hirsch, JS "Pleasure and Power: Incorporating Sexuality, Agency, and Inequality into Research on Contraceptive Use and Unintended Pregnancy" American Journal of Public Health 98(10) 1803-1813 2008
Higgins, JA, Trussell, J, and Hirsch, JS "Pleasure, Prophylaxis, and Procreation: A Qualitative Analysis of Intermittent Contraceptive Use and Unintended Pregnancy" Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 40(3) 130-137 2008
Higgins, JA and Browne, I "Sexual Needs, Control, and Refusal: How "Doing" Class and Gender Influences Sexual Risk Taking" Journal of Sex Research 45(3) 233-245 2008
Higgins, JA and Hirsch, JS "The Pleasure Deficit: Revisiting the "Sexuality Connection" in Reproductive Health" Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 39(4) 240-247 2007
Higgins, JA "Sexy Feminisms & Sexual Health: Theorizing Heterosex, Pleasure and Constraint in Public Health Research" Atlantis 31(2) 72-81 2007
Contact Information
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60 Haven Ave, B3, Room 309
New York, NY 10032
USA
Phone:
212-304-5766
Fax:
212-305-7024
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