Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW
Associate Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
School of Nursing
Awards
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- 2022 MSTAR Best Research Mentor Award, University of California Medical Students Training in Aging Research (MSTAR), 2022
- UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2022
- Greenwall Faculty Scholar, Greenwall Foundation, 2021
- Changemaker in Family Planning Award, Society of Family Planning, 2021
- UCSF Population Health and Health Equity Scholar, University of California, San Francisco, 2021
- UCSF Society of Hellman Fellows Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2021
- Betty Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award, Honorable Mention, American Public Health Association, Aging and Public Health Section, 2020
- Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program Scholar, Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program, 2020
- UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities Scholar, UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities and UCSF Pepper Center, 2019
- Qualitative Dissertation Award, International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry, 2018
- Barbara Rosenblum Dissertation Award, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2015
- UCSF School of Nursing Alumni Association Scholarship, UCSF School of Nursing, 2015
- Virginia Olesen Dissertation Scholarship, UCSF Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
- UCSF Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence Research & Leadership Development in Geron, UCSF Hartford Center, 2014
- University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2014
- Esther Ngan-Ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2013
- UCSF Graduate Dean’s Health Science Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2013
- AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 2012
- AACR Susan G. Komen for the Cure Scholar-in-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 2012
- UCSF Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2012
- UCSF National Institute for General Medical Sciences Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2010-2012
- Yale University Morse College Fellows Award, Morse College, Yale University, 2008
- Official Citation, City of New Haven, City of New Haven, CT, 2007
- Yale University President’s Public Service Fellowship, Yale University, 2006
Education & Training
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- PhD Sociology University of California, San Francisco 06/2016
- MS Social Policy University of Pennsylvania 08/2010
- MSW Social Work University of Pennsylvania 05/2010
- BA Political Science Yale University 05/2008
Websites
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- @@JenJamesPhD on Twitter (twitter.com)
Publications (32)
Top publication keywords:
Breast NeoplasmsAbortion, InducedMedicineReproductive RightsFeminismBioethicsClergyPrisonersHealthcare DisparitiesPrisonsFamilyMoral ObligationsRacismAdoptionAccess to Information
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Reproductive Justice and Abolition: Important Lessons Black Feminists Have Been Teaching Us for Years.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2024 James JE -
A qualitative study of primary care clinician's approach to ending cervical cancer screening in older women in the United States.
Preventive medicine reports 2023 Holt HK, Flores R, James JE, Waters C, Kaplan CP, Peterson CE, Sawaya GF -
The Problem Is Not (Merely) Mass Incarceration: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis and Abolition as a Moral Obligation.
The Hastings Center report 2023 James JE -
Bonaparte AD, Oparah J, editors. Birthing Justice Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Sheltering in Community: Reimagining Black Birth during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2023 James JE, Roane A, Oparah JC -
"Good luck, social distance": rapid decarceration and community care for serious mental illness and substance use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health & justice 2023 James JE, Dauria EF, Desai R, Bell A, Izenberg JM
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"We're not patients. We're inmates": Older Black women's experience of aging, health and illness during and after incarceration.
The Gerontologist 2023 James JE -
The role of polygenic risk scores in breast cancer risk perception and decision-making.
Journal of community genetics 2023 Riddle L, Joseph G, Caruncho M, Koenig BA, James JE -
Correction to: Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter.
The Journal of medical humanities 2023 Ray K, Fletcher FE, Martschenko DO, James JE -
Hospice Quality, Race, and Disenrollment in Hospice Enrollees With Dementia.
Journal of palliative medicine 2023 Hunt LJ, Gan S, Smith AK, Aldridge MD, Boscardin WJ, Harrison KL, James JE, Lee AK, Yaffe K -
Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter.
The Journal of medical humanities 2023 Ray K, Fletcher FE, Martschenko DO, James JE -
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences.
Sociology of health & illness 2023 Jeske M, James J, Joyce K -
"Prison life is very hard and it's made harder if you're isolated": COVID-19 risk mitigation strategies and the mental health of incarcerated women in California.
International journal of prisoner health 2022 James JE, Riddle L, Perez-Aguilar G -
"It's personalized, but it's still bucket based": The promise of personalized medicine vs. the reality of genomic risk stratification in a breast cancer screening trial.
New genetics and society 2022 James JE, Joseph G -
A qualitative study of unaffected ATM and CHEK2 carriers: How participants make meaning of 'moderate risk' genetic results in a population breast cancer screening trial.
Journal of genetic counseling 2022 James JE, Riddle L, Caruncho M, Koenig BA, Joseph G -
COVID-19 and the reimaging of compassionate release.
International journal of prisoner health 2022 James JE, Foe M, Desai R, Rangan A, Price M -
Is It Ethical to Mandate Vaccination among Incarcerated Persons? Consider Enforcement and Ask People Living in Prisons and Jails.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2022 James JE -
Guest editorial
International Journal of Prisoner Health 2022 Nickolas Zaller, Lisa Barry, Jane Dorotik, Jennifer James, Andrea K. Knittel, Fernando Murillo, Stephanie Grace Prost and Brie Williams -
The Association Between Race and Place of Death Among Persons With Dementia.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2022 Mayan I, Yaffe K, James J, Hunt LJ -
Black Feminist Bioethics: Centering Community to Ask Better Questions.
The Hastings Center report 2022 James JE -
Race, Racism, and Bioethics: Are We Stuck?
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2022 James JE -
The limits of personalization in precision medicine: Polygenic risk scores and racial categorization in a precision breast cancer screening trial.
PloS one 2021 James JE, Riddle L, Koenig BA, Joseph G -
Pre-Appointment Nurse Navigation: Patient-Centered Findings From a Survey of Patients With Breast Cancer.
Clinical journal of oncology nursing 2021 Wang T, Huilgol YS, Black J, D'Andrea C, James J, Northrop A, Belkora J, Esserman LJ -
A Second Chance at Health
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2021 Jennifer Elyse James -
Corrigendum: Creativity, Resilience and Resistance: Black Birthworkers' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Frontiers in sociology 2021 Oparah JC, James JE, Barnett D, Jones LM, Melbourne D, Peprah S, Walker JA -
Creativity, Resilience and Resistance: Black Birthworkers' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Frontiers in sociology 2021 Oparah JC, James JE, Barnett D, Jones LM, Melbourne D, Peprah S, Walker JA -
Beyond Seeing Race: Centering Racism and Acknowledging Agency Within Bioethics.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2021 James JE, Iacopetti CL -
In Z. Luna & W. Pirtle (Eds.), Black Feminist Sociology
Black Feminist Epistemological Methodology: Bridging Theory and Methods to Research Health and Illness. 2021 Jennifer E. James -
Regimes of Patienthood: Developing an Intersectional Concept to Theorize Illness Experiences
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2020 Kelly Ann Joyce, Jennifer E James, Melanie Jeske -
Reinforcing Loss and Rendering Invisible: Adoptee Experience and the Structural Failings of Biomedicine.
Narrative inquiry in bioethics 2018 James J -
What Impact Do Chaplains Have? A Pilot Study of Spiritual AIM for Advanced Cancer Patients in Outpatient Palliative Care.
Journal of pain and symptom management 2017 Kestenbaum A, Shields M, James J, Hocker W, Morgan S, Karve S, Rabow MW, Dunn LB -
Black Women with Advanced Cancer and the Challenge of Biomedicine: A Black Feminist Methodological Exploration of the Lived Experience of Terminal Illness
Black Women with Advanced Cancer and the Challenge of Biomedicine: A Black Feminist Methodological Exploration of the Lived Experience of Terminal Illness 2016 Jennifer E. James -
"Taking your place at the table": an autoethnographic study of chaplains' participation on an interdisciplinary research team.
BMC palliative care 2015 Kestenbaum A, James J, Morgan S, Shields M, Hocker W, Rabow M, Dunn LB