Jessica Burke, PhD, MHS

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
130 DeSoto Street
Pittsburgh, PA
USA 15261

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Jessica Griffin Burke is a public health social scientist with a focus on the interpersonal and neighborhood contexts of urban health disparities, and much of her work addresses low-income women and children and the health topic of HIV/AIDS. She joined the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in 2005 and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences. Dr. Burke has three overarching aims that shape her scholarship: 1) to utilize innovative quantitative and qualitative methods to uncover the impact of contextual influences on health; 2) to engage communities in the process of research and its translation; 3) to develop tailored interventions to address contextual influences.

Papers:
2057.0 Microfinance and women's health: What is currently known and what still needs to be examined? 3247.0 Prevalence of HIV and perceptions of risk among the hijra population in bangalore,India