Ph.D., health policy and bioethics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
M.A., bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
B.A., biology and philosophy, Wellesley College
Dr. Holzer is the Chair of the Department of Population Health & Leadership. She completed her Ph.D. in health policy and bioethics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her M.A. in bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, and her B.A. at Wellesley College, majoring in biology and philosophy. She is broadly interested in health equity and community well-being, specifically in the areas of active transportation and maternal health. She is an expert in community-based participatory research approaches. Her most recent work on maternal morbidities in the postpartum period has received awards and recognition from the American Public Health Association.
Dr. Holzer is the co-founder and a board member of , a non-profit providing evidence to support maternal decisions across the maternal experience.
See MoreHolzer J, Fiedler G, & Londhe S (2022) Maternal Centric Measurement and Data Gaps in Addressing Maternal Morbidities: A Scoping Review. Maternal Child Health Journal
Fry, C. E., Young, C., Sudderth, M., Holzer, J. (2019). "Beyond the Manuscript: Development of a Tobacco control 'Prescription' in a Southern US City." Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 13(3), 247-251.
Calhoun, K., Eder, M., Holzer, J. (2018). "Beyond the Manuscript: Defining and Measuring Community Engagement and Community-Engaged Research." Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 12(2), 157-163.
Eder, M. M., Holzer, J., Calhoun, K., Strong, L. L. (2017). "A Retrospective on the Vision for Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action." Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action, 11(1), 1-11.
MacQueen, K. M., Bhan, A., Frohlich, J., Holzer, J., Sugarman, J. (2015). "Evaluating community engagement in global health research: the need for metrics." BMC medical ethics, 16, 44.
Holzer, J., Kass, N. (2015). "Understanding the supports of and challenges to community engagement in the CTSAs." Clinical and translational science, 8(2), 116-22.
Holzer, J., Bradford, A. (2014). "Caregivers of Orthopedic Trauma Patients: Perspectives on Participating in Caregiver-Related Research." IRB, 36(5), 8-12.
Holzer, J., Canavan, M., Bradley, E. (2014). "County-level correlation between adult obesity rates and prevalence of dentists." Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 145(9), 932-9.
Holzer, J., Ellis, L., Merritt, M. W. (2014). "Why we need community engagement in medical research." Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research, 62(6), 851-5.
Holzer, J., Kass, N. (2014). "Community engagement strategies in the original and renewal applications for CTSA grant funding." Clinical and translational science, 7(1), 38-43.
Kimbrough-Sugick, J., Holzer, J., Bass, E. B. (2011). "Setting the agenda for community-based participatory research." The virtual mentor : VM, 13(2), 94-9.
Academic
Oral Prsentations
Identifying Postpartum Care Patterns in National Survey Data: Who is getting the right care at the right time?, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2019, Londhe, S. (Author & Presenter), Holzer, J. (Author). Peer-reviewed/refereed
Maternal Morbidities: National and State-level data to address care quality in the US, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2018, Holzer, J. (Author & Presenter), Londhe, S. (Author). Peer-reviewed/refereed
Maternal Morbidities: Identifying Significant Data Gaps and Implications for Creating Meaningful Quality Improvement in the United States, Annual Research Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 2018, Holzer, J. (Author & Presenter), Londhe, S. (Author). Peer-reviewed/refereed
Posters
Content analysis on maternal mortality review committee in the United States, Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Conference, Online- COVID, October 2020, Shahi, A. (Author & Presenter)*, Londhe, S. (Author), Holzer, J. (Author). Peer-reviewed/refereed
Preterm Labor and Postpartum Depression: Highlighting the Effects of Birth Experience on Maternal Morbidity, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 2018, Londhe, S. (Author & Presenter), Holzer, J. (Author), Londhe, A. (Author). Peer-reviewed/refereed
Encouraging Active Transportation on Long Island: Rating and Mapping Infrastructure to Drive Change, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2017, Holzer, J., Silberger, S. (Author). Peer-reviewed/refereed
Identifying health needs in Roosevelt, New York: A community-based participatory research partnership for health equity, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2017, Holzer, J. (Author), L. I. C. A. R. P. (Author & Presenter). Peer-reviewed/refereed
Non-Academic
Oral Presentations
Maternal Spotlight, New Jersey Centering Consortium, Other, online, December 2020, Holzer, J. (Author & Presenter), Londhe, S. (Author). This presentation introduced the work of Maternal Spotlight, including our educational podcast and our microgrant program.
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Jessica Holzer, associate professor and director of the health sciences program, talks about Maternal Spotlight, a nonprofit she co-founded, providing evidence to support maternal decisions, across the experience of motherhood, to healthcare providers.
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Jessica Holzer, associate professor of public health, discusses the pros and cons of pharmacists dispensing birth control without a doctor's prescription.
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Jessica Holzer, associate professor and director of the Health Science Program, comments on some of the reasons the CDC and state health officials are recommending we aring a face mask in public spaces indoors to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in Connecticut.
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Jessica Holzer, associate professor and director of the Health Sciences Program, talks about the risks of sending children to school when they are not feeling well enough to participate.
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Jessica Holzer, associate professor and director of the Health Science Program, discusses best practices for preventing the spread of monkeypox.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the Health Sciences program, says it is essential for the CDC to take steps to rebuild trustworthiness.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S. in Health Science program, says the smallpox vaccination that seniors may have received can help protect against monkeypox.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S. in Health Science program, talks about how the lack of employees for maternity wards in parts of the state may cause expectant mothers to travel more than 30 minutes for care.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S. in Health Sciences program, talks about how the smallpox vaccine is helping with some monkeypox cases that are not as dangerous to one's health.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S. in Health Sciences program, talks about the symptoms of monkeypox and how it can be contracted.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S. in Health Sciences program, discussed the first case of monkeypox in Georgia and said that it is not an airborne disease.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S.in Health Sciences program, says that given current behaviors, wearing a facemask may still be needed.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S. in Health Sciences program, says there are many contributing factors causing an escalation in the number of COVID-positive cases.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the Health Sciences program, says that the increase in COVID-19 cases may be due to public fatigue and the relaxation of mask mandates.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the B.S. in Health Sciences program, comments that each vaccine has slightly different mechanisms, so there is a benefit to combining them.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the Health Sciences program, comments on why cloth masks are not as effective against the Omicron variant.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the Health Sciences program, talks about the rise in COVID cases and explains why there needs to be continued patience as the pandemic reaches two years.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and director of the Health Sciences Program, comments that it is too early to know if COVID vaccine shots will need to be taken each year or even biannually.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, and Michael Urban, senior lecturer and director of the Doctorate of Occupational Therapy, comment on the vaccine mandates and those claiming religious exemptions.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, talks about the importance of vaccination as the Delta variant continues to spread.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, talks about the Delta variant, the vaccine, and the need to continue to get more people vaccinated.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, discusses the ethics behind a vaccine mandate.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, talks about clusters of COVID cases among younger children.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, talks about long term consequences of using one of the sunscreens that was recently recalled.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, comments on the removal of sunscreen products that may contain benzene.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, talks about the rate of vaccinations and the goal set by the Biden administration.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, comments on employees undertaking new guidelines for coming back to the office.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, talks about the COVID-19 vaccine requirement being no different from the mandatory flu shot for hospital workers.
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Karl Minges, assistant professor and chair of health administration and policy, and Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, comments on the importance of getting the vaccine to get ahead of the variants and back to normal.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director for undergraduate public health, says that county level officials may be helpful to distributing the vaccine throughout California.
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Jessica Holzer, assistant professor and program director of public health and administration, says that a statewide protocol may not meet the needs of people in individual counties.
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Jessica Holzer, Ph.D., an expert in health policy, is passionate about improving equity in healthcare and building connections in the surrounding community.