Dr. Jennifer Wagman

Associate Professor

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Biography

Jennifer Wagman earned her PhD in Population, Family, and Reproductive Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, along with a Master’s degree in International Health from the same institution. She also holds a Bioethics and Health Policy Certificate from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Wagman completed postdoctoral training at UC San Diego School of Medicine, where her research focused on alcohol substance use and HIV-related infections. In 2000, she collaborated with the Rakai Health Sciences Program to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and reproductive health in the context of HIV infection. Her work has emphasized the need for safe and ethical research protocols concerning interpersonal violence, leading intervention research aimed at identifying effective, integrated approaches for IPV and HIV prevention in rural Uganda. In California, she leads the public health research project UC Speaks Up, addressing the prevention of sexual assault and dating violence across University of California campuses. Since 2016, she has served as the Director of the Violence Prevention Research at the UC Global Health Institute’s Women’s Health and Gender Empowerment Center.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of California Los Angeles

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
Verbal
Required:160
Quantitative
Required:160
Analytical Writing
Required:5
Overall
Required:5
TOEFL
Total
Required:87
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree Strong background in Economics and Mathematics
Application Checklist
  • Online application
  • Statement of Purpose
  • Transcripts
  • 3 Letters of Recommendation
  • GRE General Test scores
Specialization Notes

Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.