Jennifer S. McCall-Hosenfeld
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of Medicine and Public Health Sciences | Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, UNITED STATES
Jennifer S. McCall-Hosenfeld focuses on women’s primary and preventive healthcare, partner violence, and healthcare for rural women.
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Healthcare for Women in Rural Areas
Women's Primary Healthcare
Intimate Partner Violence
Women's Preventative Healthcare
Biography
Jennifer McCall-Hosenfeld is Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School (2002), completed her Internal Medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard’s Center of Excellence in Women’s Health (2005), and completed a general internal medicine/women’s health fellowship and Preventive Medicine residency/chief residency (2008) and Master of Science in Epidemiology at Boston University (2007). She has been a member of the Penn State Center for Women’s Health Research since 2008, and was named director of the Center in 2015.
Her research focuses on the intersections between women’s primary and preventive healthcare, intimate partner violence (IPV), and improving healthcare for rural women. From 2009-2012, Dr. McCall-Hosenfeld was selected as a Penn State BIRCWH K12 Scholar for her project examining rural patient and provider perspectives on health and healthcare seeking among IPV survivors. In 2012, she became principal investigator of a nationally competitive Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable foundation, which examines the strategic responses used by women exposed to IPV, and relates these responses to mental health conditions. In recognition of these accomplishments, she was awarded the Penn State Department of Medicine’s Junior Faculty Clinical Research Award in June 2012.
She also is an active member of the Penn State Domestic and Sexual Violence (DV/SV) Task Force and serves as faculty advisor for the medical student chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). From 2013-2015 she Chaired the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Women and Medicine Task Force (WAMTF) and has served on the Steering Committee of Futures Without Violence’s National Conference on Healthcare and Domestic Violence since 2012.
Accomplishments (3)
Junior Faculty Clinical Research Award (professional)
Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine
OAW 3C (Committed, Community, Change) Award (professional)
Penn State Organization for the Advancement of Women
Fellow, American College of Physicians (professional)
American College of Physicians
Education (2)
Boston University School of Public Health: M.Sc. 2007
Harvard Medical School: M.D. 2002
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Association of intimate partner violence and health-care provider-identified obesity.
Women and Health
Davies R, Lehman E, Perry A, McCall-Hosenfeld JS.
2016 The association of physical and nonphysical intimate partner violence (IPV) with obesity was examined. Women (N = 1,179) were surveyed regarding demographics, obesity, and IPV exposure using humiliate-afraid-rape-kick (HARK), an IPV screening tool. A three-level lifetime IPV exposure variable measured physical, nonphysical or no IPV. Health-care provider-identified obesity was defined if participants were told by a medical provider within the past 5 years that they were obese. Bivariate analyses examined obesity by IPV and demographics. Multivariable logistic regression assessed odds of obesity by IPV type, adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, education, and marital status. Among participants, 44% reported lifetime IPV (25% physical, 19% nonphysical), and 24% reported health-care provider-identified obesity. In unadjusted analyses, obesity was more prevalent among women exposed to physical IPV (30%) and nonphysical IPV (27%), compared to women without IPV (20%, p = .002). In multivariable models, women reporting physical IPV had 1.67 times greater odds of obesity (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.20, 2.33), and women reporting nonphysical IPV had 1.46 times greater odds of obesity (95% CI 1.01, 2.10), compared to women reporting no exposure. This study extends prior data by showing, not only an association between physical IPV and obesity, but also an association between obesity and nonphysical IPV.
Intimate partner violence screening and counseling in the health care setting: Perception of provider-based discussions as a strategic response to IPV.
Health care for women international
Swailes AL, Lehman EB, Perry AN, McCall-Hosenfeld JS.
2016 Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects women worldwide, and is addressable in the health care setting not only via screening, but also through provider-based counseling and referral to legal or social services, as appropriate. We conducted a study in Pennsylvania (USA) examining factors associated with receipt of IPV screening and women's perceptions of counseling discussions as a strategic response. We found that women with past-year IPV were more likely to receive screening (aOR: 2.0, 95%CI: 1.2,3.5) and to consider counseling discussions to be a strategic response to IPV exposure (aOR: 2.7, 95%CI: 1.008,7.2) than women with a more distant history of IPV. Scholars and clinicians may learn that, especially for women with a recent history of IPV, screening may provide a conduit to meaningful counseling discussions and referrals that women view as a helpful strategy in responding to IPV.
Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Throughout the Peri- and Postpartum Period: Results from the First Baby Study.
J Womens Health
McCall-Hosenfeld, JS; Phiri, K; Schaefe E; Zhu J; Kjerulff, K.
2016 Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common complication of childbearing, but the course of PPD is not well understood. We analyze trajectories of depression and key risk factors associated with these trajectories in the peripartum and postpartum period.
The impact of social support on the risk of eating disorders in women exposed to intimate partner violence.
International journal of women's health
Schirk DK, Lehman EB, Perry AN, Ornstein RM, McCall-Hosenfeld JS.
2015 The objective of this study is to determine the distribution of risk of EDs among women exposed to IPV and to examine the impact of SS on risk of ED among IPV-exposed women.
Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among Adults and Children in 5 US States.
Journal of public health management and practice
Du P, Camacho F, McCall-Hosenfeld J, Lengerich E, Meyers CM, Christensen ND.
2015 To assess HPV vaccination among US adults and children and to identify characteristics associated with HPV vaccination.