Jennifer S. Hirsch

Jennifer S. Hirsch is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research spans five interconnected domains: how modifiable social institutions shape health outcomes; gender, sexuality and migration as drivers of sexual and reproductive health and HIV risk practices; sexual assault and undergraduate well-being, and the intersections between anthropology and public health. Hirsch codirected Columbia's Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) project, along with Dr. Claude Ann Mellins. She is coauthor with Shamus Khan of Sexual Citizens, forthcoming from WW Norton, based on the SHIFT ethnographic research. Website: http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/our-faculty/profile?uni=jsh2124