Jeannette Ickovics

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Professor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
• Director, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program
• Director of Education and Training, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
• Director, Connecticut Women’s Health Project
• Faculty Appointment, Department of Psychology

AWARDS AND HONORS:
• Fellow, American Psychological Association, 2002
• Yale/Seton Elm and Ivy Award, 2001
• American Psychological Association, Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, 2000
• American Psychological Association, Committee on Women in Psychology, Distinguished Emerging Leader Award, 1999

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
• Committee Chair/ad hoc Reviewer, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 2000-present
• Board of Scientific Affairs Committee Liaison, Division of Health Psychology (Div 38), American Psychological Association
Data and Safety Monitoring Board, A Multilevel HIV Prevention Strategy for High Risk Youth, NIMH
• Board of Directors, National Program Chair, Division of Health Psychology (Div 38), American Psychological Association, 2005
International Advisory Committee, Social Science and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Rockefeller Foundation, 2005

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The behaviors that put adolescent women at risk for pregnancy also put them at risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In recent years, Dr Ickovics' research has examined STD risk within the context of adolescent pregnancy, wherein young women not only fail to protect themselves, but may actively seek pregnancy -- leaving them vulnerable to other risks associated with unprotected sex. Professor Ickovics' and her research team, the Connecticut Women's Health Project, are dedicated to community-based, longitudinal studies promoting women's reproductive health. She is the Principal Investigator on research projects supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH), including a randomized controlled trials to evaluate the effects of an innovative model of prenatal care to reduce HIV/STD risk and promote better perinatal outcomes among pregnant teens. In additional, Professor Ickovics examines how psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical factors interact to influence the trajectories of recovery following various health events, with on-going NIH funding for a study on recovery following orthopaedic surgery. Her unique contributions are derived, in part, by a commitment to an interdisciplinary perspective of public heath, integrating psychological, social, and biomedical factors, and providing insight regarding their influence on health.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
• Integrating Prenatal Care to Reduce HIV/STI Among Pregnant Teens: A Translational Study
• HIV/STD Risk among Young Expectant Fathers: Relationship Attachment & Transition
• Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training Program

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