Alisa Jenny, MPH
Technical Director
GHS - Programs
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Alisa has over two decades of experience conducting research and implementing programs in resource-limited settings. She has worked on projects in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa and rural Alaska, in positions at the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She honed her statistical skills while working as a Research Fellow at the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, after completing her graduate degree. She developed her passion for public health while working on maternal and child health programs as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras. Alisa received an MPH from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is proficient in Spanish.

• Perceptions and predictors of respectful maternity care in Malawi: A quantitative cross-sectional analysis.
  Midwifery 2022 Hughes CS, Kamanga M, Jenny A, Zieman B, Warren C, Walker D, Kazembe A
• Super Divya to the rescue! Exploring Nurse Mentor Supervisor perceptions on a digital tool to support learning and engagement for simulation educators in Bihar, India.
  BMC medical education 2022 Kalra A, Siju M, Jenny A, Spindler H, Madriz S, Baayd J, Handu S, Ghosh R, Cohen S, Walker D
• Super Divya, an Interactive Digital Storytelling Instructional Comic Series to Sustain Facilitation Skills of Labor and Delivery Nurse Mentors in Bihar, India-A Pilot Study.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Kalra A, Subramaniam N, Longkumer O, Siju M, Jose LS, Srivastava R, Lin S, Handu S, Murugesan S, Lloyd M, Madriz S, Jenny A, Thorn K, Calkins K, Breeze-Harris H, Cohen SR, Ghosh R, Walker D
• Implementing an intrapartum package of interventions to improve quality of care to reduce the burden of preterm birth in Kenya and Uganda.
  Implementation science communications 2021 Namazzi G, Achola KA, Jenny A, Santos N, Butrick E, Otieno P, Waiswa P, Walker D, Preterm Birth Initiative Kenya & Uganda Implementation Research Collaborative
• Impact of pharmacy worker training and deployment on access to essential medicines for children under five in Malawi: a cluster quasi-experimental evaluation.
  BMC health services research 2017 Babigumira JB, Lubinga SJ, Jenny AM, Larsen-Cooper E, Crawford J, Matemba C, Stergachis A
• Assessment of the scope and practice of evaluation among medical donation programs.
  Globalization and health 2016 Jenny AM, Li M, Ashbourne E, Aldrink M, Funk C, Stergachis A
• Examination of patient flow in a rural health center in Malawi.
  BMC research notes 2016 Jafry MA, Jenny AM, Lubinga SJ, Larsen-Cooper E, Crawford J, Matemba C, Babigumira JB
• Impact of pharmacy worker training and deployment on access to essential medicines and health outcomes in Malawi: protocol for a cluster quasi-experimental evaluation.
  Implementation science : IS 2014 Lubinga SJ, Jenny AM, Larsen-Cooper E, Crawford J, Matemba C, Stergachis A, Babigumira JB
• Health-related quality of life and social support among women treated for abortion complications in western Uganda.
  Health and quality of life outcomes 2013 Lubinga SJ, Levine GA, Jenny AM, Ngonzi J, Mukasa-Kivunike P, Stergachis A, Babigumira JB
• PRONTO training for obstetric and neonatal emergencies in Mexico.
  International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 2011 Walker DM, Cohen SR, Estrada F, Monterroso ME, Jenny A, Fritz J, Fahey JO
• Effect of reduction in household air pollution on childhood pneumonia in Guatemala (RESPIRE): a randomised controlled trial.
  Lancet (London, England) 2011 Smith KR, McCracken JP, Weber MW, Hubbard A, Jenny A, Thompson LM, Balmes J, Diaz A, Arana B, Bruce N
• Pneumonia case-finding in the RESPIRE Guatemala indoor air pollution trial: standardizing methods for resource-poor settings.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007 Bruce N, Weber M, Arana B, Diaz A, Jenny A, Thompson L, McCracken J, Dherani M, Juarez D, Ordonez S, Klein R, Smith KR
• Nxwisen, ntzarrin or ntzo'lin? Mapping children's respiratory symptoms among indigenous populations in Guatemala.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2007 Thompson L, Diaz J, Jenny A, Diaz A, Bruce N, Balmes J
• Capacity building in environmental health research in India and Nepal.
  International journal of occupational and environmental health 2006 Von Ehrenstein OS, Jenny AM, Basu A, Smith KR, Hira-Smith M, Smith AH
• The association between community context and mortality among Mexican-American infants.
  Ethnicity & disease 2001 Jenny AM, Schoendorf KC, Parker JD