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Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, MSSP, is an Associate Professor in the Institute for Health & Aging, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Bioethics Program at UCSF. Jen is a qualitative researcher and Black Feminist scholar who conducts community-engaged qualitative research on racism and health. She is a sociologist and empirical ethics researcher whose research interests include cancer, chronic illness, reproductive justice, patient-provider relationships, and health decision-making. Her current work is focused on experiences of health and illness for people who are or have been incarcerated. She holds a PhD in sociology from UCSF, a master’s in social work and a master’s of science in social policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in political science from Yale University.
Publications
Health System Experiences and Care Engagement in Latine Patients With Hidradenitis Suppurativa.
JAMA dermatology
Trends in Hospice Use Among Older Adults With Dementia and Cancer by Race and Ethnicity 2011-2021.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic.
Medical anthropology quarterly
Cultural and Language Discrimination in Healthcare as Experienced by Basque Women and Gender Non-Normative Individuals in the Basque Country.
Qualitative health research
The Legal Determinants of Health From Incarceration to Accessibility, edited by B. Dolan and J. McMullin
Structural Limitations on Autonomy in Prisons and Jails: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis
R. Mukerjee and C. Martinez (Eds)., All This Safety is Killing us
Medical neglect as carceral violence: How incarcerated women seek health, give care, and resist violence behind bars
Naturalistic psychedelic experiences and gender-based self-acceptance in transgender and gender-expansive people
International Journal of Transgender Health
"By the Time We Knew …": Poetic Analysis of End-of-Life Caregiving Experiences for Rapidly Progressive and Slower-Duration Dementia Syndromes.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Psychedelic Exceptionalism, Indigeneity, and the War on Drugs: Antiracism and Decolonizing Psychedelic Plant Medicine.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Threats to Women's Health in Prisons and Jails.
JAMA internal medicine
Moving toward Equity through Embedded ELSI Ethnography.
The Hastings Center report
Receiving a pathogenic variant in a population breast cancer screening trial: a mixed method study.
Public health genomics
“Mammograms are kind of my pacifier”: The cultural context of women’s preference for annual mammograms in a risk-based screening cohort
SSM-Qualitative Research in Health
Race-Ethnicity, Rurality, and Age in Prospective Preferences and Concerns Regarding Closed-Loop Implanted Neural Devices.
The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Bioethics: Recommendations from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors Presidential Task Force.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Caregiver Experiences of Racialization While Accessing Early Intervention (EI) Services for their Children
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
"We're Not Patients. We're Inmates": Older Black Women's Experience of Aging, Health, and Illness During and After Incarceration.
The Gerontologist
Reproductive Justice and Abolition: Important Lessons Black Feminists Have Been Teaching Us for Years.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
A qualitative study of primary care clinician's approach to ending cervical cancer screening in older women in the United States.
Preventive medicine reports
The Problem Is Not (Merely) Mass Incarceration: Incarceration as a Bioethical Crisis and Abolition as a Moral Obligation.
The Hastings Center report
Bonaparte AD, Oparah J, editors. Birthing Justice Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Sheltering in Community: Reimagining Black Birth during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
"Good luck, social distance": rapid decarceration and community care for serious mental illness and substance use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health & justice
The role of polygenic risk scores in breast cancer risk perception and decision-making.
Journal of community genetics
Correction to: Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter.
The Journal of medical humanities
Hospice Quality, Race, and Disenrollment in Hospice Enrollees With Dementia.
Journal of palliative medicine
Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter.
The Journal of medical humanities
Diagnosis and the practices of patienthood: How diagnostic journeys shape illness experiences.
Sociology of health & illness
"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
"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
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
COVID-19 and the reimaging of compassionate release.
International journal of prisoner health
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
Guest editorial.
International journal of prisoner health
The Association Between Race and Place of Death Among Persons With Dementia.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Black Feminist Bioethics: Centering Community to Ask Better Questions.
The Hastings Center report
Race, Racism, and Bioethics: Are We Stuck?
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
Pre-Appointment Nurse Navigation: Patient-Centered Findings From a Survey of Patients With Breast Cancer.
Clinical journal of oncology nursing
A Second Chance at Health
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Corrigendum: Creativity, Resilience and Resistance: Black Birthworkers' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Frontiers in sociology
Creativity, Resilience and Resistance: Black Birthworkers' Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Frontiers in sociology
Beyond Seeing Race: Centering Racism and Acknowledging Agency Within Bioethics.
The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
In Z. Luna & W. Pirtle (Eds.), Black Feminist Sociology
Black Feminist Epistemological Methodology: Bridging Theory and Methods to Research Health and Illness.
Regimes of Patienthood: Developing an Intersectional Concept to Theorize Illness Experiences
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society
Reinforcing Loss and Rendering Invisible: Adoptee Experience and the Structural Failings of Biomedicine.
Narrative inquiry in bioethics
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
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