Assistant Professor, Master of Public Health Program Office: St. Benilde 3334 Phone: 215.991.2274 E-mail: bakerj@lasalle.edu

Dr. Baker is an Assistant Professor of the Master of Public (MPH) Program. Dr. Baker holds her doctorate in Public Health from Drexel University with a concentration in Community Health and Prevention. She is also a trained community mental health counselor with a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.Ed. from Temple University. She completed one year of postdoctoral training at the National Center on Fathers and Families (NCOFF) at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Baker's research experiences have focused on health disparities issues among children, women, and men. The majority of her work has focused on designing and evaluating evidence-based HIV/STI prevention programs for vulnerable populations, nationally and internationally.  She is interested in investigating cultural and social practices of vulnerable populations and the ways in which health risks are defined and experienced.

Areas of Expertise

• Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Adolescent Health
• HIV/STI Prevention
• Women's Health

Education

• Post-Doctoral Training - National Center on Fathers and Families (NCOFF), University of Pennsylvania
• DrPH, Drexel University, School of Public Health, Concentration- Community Health & Prevention
• Ed.M., Temple University, Counseling Psychology
• B.A., University of Pennsylvania, Psychology

Teaching

• PHLT 554: Public Health, AIDS, and Society
• PHLT 705: Social & Behavioral Sciences
• PHLT 707: Community Health Promotion
• PHLT 750: Public Health Practice Experience I
• PHLT 751: Public Health Practice Experience II

Research

Funded Research Grants

Co-Investigator, "Father-Son Sexual Risk Communication and the Influence on HIV Risk Behaviors of African American Male Adolescents," Diversity Supplement Award, National Institute of Child & Health Development, funded, $217,252, 2012-2014, 5R01HD061061–03.

Principal Investigator, Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program, National Institutes of Health, funded $47,665, 2012-2014.

Articles

Baker, J., Leader, A., Voytek, C., Brawner, B., Chirico, M., Tenhave, T., Peter, N., Fishman, J., Silverman, R., Jemmott, L., Frank, I. (In Press.) Perspectives on Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among African American female adolescents. American Journal of Health Studies.

Brawner, B., Baker, J., Leader, A., Voytek, C., Chirico, M., Jemmott, L., Frank, I. (In Press).  The development of a culturally relevant, theory driven HPV prevention intervention for African American adolescent females and their caregivers. Health Promotion Practice.  

Jones, P. Baker, J., Gelaude, D., King, W., Jemmott, L. (In Press).Lessons learned from field testing a brief, single session behavioral intervention package for African American women at sexual risk for HIV/STIs. Health Promotion Practice.  

Brawner, B., Baker, J., Stewart, J., Davis, Z., Cederbaum, J., Jemmott, L.S. (In Press). "The Black Man's Country Club": Assessing the Feasibility of an HIV Risk Reduction Program for Young, African American Men in Barbershops.

Baker, J., Brawner, B. M., Cederbaum, J., Davis, Z., White, S., Brawner, W. & Jemmott, L. S. (2012). Barbershops as venues to assess and intervene in HIV/STI risk among young, heterosexual African American men. American Journal of Men's Health, Available online first, 1-15. (PMID: 22398991) doi: 10.1177/1557988312437239

Baker, J., Brawner, B. M., Leader, A., Voytek, C., Jemmott, L. S., & Frank, I. (2012). Incorporating community based participatory research principles for the development of a HPV prevention program for African American adolescent females and their parents/guardians. American Journal of Health Studies, 27(1), 1-7.

Leader, A., Cashman, R., Voytek, C., Baker, J., Brawner, B., & Frank, I. (2011). An exploratory study of adolescent female reactions to direct-to-consumer-advertising: The case of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Health Marketing Quarterly, 28, 372-385. (PMID: 22054031) doi:10.1080/07359683.2011.630289

Guest Editorials, Book Reviews, Other publications

Carthon, M., McDonald, J., Baker, J., Gomes, M., Stevens, R., & Brawner, B. M. (2011). Beyond Despair: Next decade research strategies to promote health equity among racial and ethnic minorities [White paper]. Retrieved from http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/pdfs/BrooksCarthon_J_76.pdf.