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Noelene Kimiko Jeffers is an experienced nurse-midwife with over 10 years of service in federally qualified health centers, hospitals, and free-standing birth centers in Washington, DC. Her research employs a reproductive justice lens to investigate the structural social determinants of Black maternal and perinatal health. Dr. Jeffers leads and collaborates on studies examining the impact of midwives in birth center care on perinatal health, as well as the effects of racism and discrimination within midwifery education programs. She integrates doulas into state perinatal health systems as part of her work. Dr. Jeffers earned her bachelor's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, followed by an MSN from Yale University School of Nursing, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She has also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research objectives focus on the development and implementation of community-engaged interventions aimed at promoting perinatal health equity and the wellbeing of Black women and birthing individuals. Dr. Jeffers is affiliated with the Center for Equity in Child and Youth Health Wellbeing at the Institute for Policy Solutions at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
Department of Pathology - PhD in Pathobiology. GRE is not required.