Jillian Lucas Baker, DrPH

Assistant Professor/Masters of Public Health program
La Salle University
School of Nursing and Health Sciences
1900 Olney Ave.
St. Benilde Tower, Office 3334
Philadelphia, PA
USA 19141

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Baker is an Assistant Professor of the Master of Public program at La Salle University. Dr. Baker has over twelve years of community based research experience mostly focused on HIV/STD prevention. Dr. Baker has recently received a Diversity Investigator Supplement award from NIH under Dr. Loretta Jemmott’s R01 grant “Shape Up: Barbers Building Better Brothers”. Dr. Baker will investigate the degree to which African American fathers influence sons’ beliefs, intentions, and participation in sexual risk behaviors and the feasibility of implementing a sexual risk communication program for African American fathers and sons.

Papers:
4047.0 Development and pilot testing of a barbershop based HIV/STI prevention program for young adult African American men 4127.0 Parental perspectives of youth bullying: Thoughts on influences and strategies for response 5006.0 Testing negative: HIV testing as a predictor of HIV risk perception among americans, 1993-2000