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Jeannette R. Ickovics
CitizenshipU.S.A.
Occupation(s)Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and of Psychology
SpouseTyler Thorpe
AwardsStrickland-Daniel Mentoring Award from the American Psychological Association (2018), Outstanding Community Partner Award (Partner for Health Change) in New Haven Public Schools (2016), and Master Lecturer in American Psychological Association Board of Scientific Affairs (2015)
Academic background
Alma materMuhlenberg College and George Washington University
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University

Jeannette R. Ickovics is an American health and social psychologist.  She is the inaugural Samuel and Liselotte Herman Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University.

Previously, Ickovics was the Founding Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and the Founding Director of Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE). She served as the Dean of Faculty at Yale-NUS College in Singapore from 2018 to 2021. Her research investigates the interplay of biomedical, behavioural, social and psychological factors that influence individual and community health. She has worked in the areas of maternal-child health, mental health, the health impacts of climate change, and multi-sector approaches to chronic disease prevention. She has also led a US National Institutes of Health training grant intended to advance prevention research, with a focus on HIV risk reduction.

Ickovics is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications,[1] and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Strickland-Daniel Mentoring Award from the American Psychological Association.[2] She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and the American Psychological Association.

Research

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Ickovics and her colleagues developed, implemented and evaluated the first standardized curricula for group prenatal care and published the first randomized controlled trials of CenteringPregnancy, now implemented in more than 500 clinical settings.[3][4] This research has been cited as foundational for group prenatal care with special populations such as refugees, teens, military populations, pregnant women with chronic diseases including diabetes and HIV, and high-risk pregnant women – especially Black women – with a focus on reducing racial and health disparities.[5][6] Further research has found that group prenatal care is associated with a lower prevalence of preterm birth, low birthweight, and neonatal intensive care utilization,[7][8][9][10][11] along with higher levels of maternal mental health, breastfeeding, and optimal pregnancy weight gain and postpartum weight loss, among other factors.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

In addition, Ickovics has made substantial contributions to understanding the influence of the social and environmental factors that contribute to poor health outcomes. CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement), cofounded by Ickovics, works directly with neighborhood residents to conduct collaborative interventions to improve community health. For example, in partnership with the New Haven Public Schools and the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, they conducted a randomized controlled trial documenting how school-based policies could reduce risk and improve outcomes related to obesity, chronic disease and academic achievement.[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ "Jeannette Ickovics, PhD". ysph.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-16.
  2. ^ "Strickland-Daniel Mentoring Award". apadivisions.org. 2024-04-01. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  3. ^ Thomas, Jordan L.; Lewis, Jessica B.; Martinez, Isabel; Cunningham, Shayna D.; Siddique, Moiuri; Tobin, Jonathan N.; Ickovics, Jeannette R. (2019). "Associations between intimate partner violence profiles and mental health among low-income, urban pregnant adolescents". BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 19 (1). doi:10.1186/s12884-019-2256-0. ISSN 1471-2393. PMC 6485079. PMID 31023259.
  4. ^ Rising, Sharon Schindler; Quimby, Charlotte Houde (December 2016). The Centeringpregnancy Model. New York: Springer Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8261-3242-0.
  5. ^ Carter, Ebony B.; Temming, Lorene A.; Akin, Jennifer; Fowler, Susan; Macones, George A.; Colditz, Graham A.; Tuuli, Methodius G. (2016). "Group Prenatal Care Compared With Traditional Prenatal Care". Obstetrics & Gynecology. 128 (3). Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health): 551–561. doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000001560. ISSN 0029-7844. PMC 4993643.
  6. ^ Byerley, Brittany M.; Haas, David M. (2017). "A systematic overview of the literature regarding group prenatal care for high-risk pregnant women". BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 17 (1). doi:10.1186/s12884-017-1522-2. ISSN 1471-2393. PMC 5622470. PMID 28962601.
  7. ^ Cunningham, Shayna D.; Lewis, Jessica B.; Shebl, Fatma M.; Boyd, Lisa M.; Robinson, Marc A.; Grilo, Stephanie A.; Lewis, Susan M.; Pruett, Anne L.; Ickovics, Jeannette R. (2019). "Group Prenatal Care Reduces Risk of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight: A Matched Cohort Study". Journal of Women's Health. 28 (1). Mary Ann Liebert Inc: 17–22. doi:10.1089/jwh.2017.6817. ISSN 1540-9996.
  8. ^ Ickovics, Jeannette R.; Kershaw, Trace S.; Westdahl, Claire; Magriples, Urania; Massey, Zohar; Reynolds, Heather; Rising, Sharon Schindler (2007). "Group Prenatal Care and Perinatal Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial". Obstetrics & Gynecology. 110 (2): 330–339. doi:10.1097/01.AOG.0000275284.24298.23. ISSN 0029-7844. PMC 2276878. PMID 17666608.
  9. ^ Gareau, Sarah; Lòpez-De Fede, Ana; Loudermilk, Brandon L.; Cummings, Tammy H.; Hardin, James W.; Picklesimer, Amy H.; Crouch, Elizabeth; Covington-Kolb, Sarah (2016). "Group Prenatal Care Results in Medicaid Savings with Better Outcomes: A Propensity Score Analysis of CenteringPregnancy Participation in South Carolina". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 20 (7): 1384–1393. doi:10.1007/s10995-016-1935-y. ISSN 1092-7875.
  10. ^ Crockett, Amy H.; Heberlein, Emily C.; Smith, Jessica C.; Ozluk, Pelin; Covington-Kolb, Sarah; Willis, Carla (2019). "Effects of a Multi-site Expansion of Group Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 23 (10): 1424–1433. doi:10.1007/s10995-019-02795-4. ISSN 1092-7875.
  11. ^ Ickovics, Jeannette R.; Earnshaw, Valerie; Lewis, Jessica B.; Kershaw, Trace S.; Magriples, Urania; Stasko, Emily; Rising, Sharon Schindler; Cassells, Andrea; Cunningham, Shayna; Bernstein, Peter; Tobin, Jonathan N. (2016). "Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of Group Prenatal Care: Perinatal Outcomes Among Adolescents in New York City Health Centers". American Journal of Public Health. 106 (2). American Public Health Association: 359–365. doi:10.2105/ajph.2015.302960. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 4815610.
  12. ^ Felder, Jennifer N.; Epel, Elissa; Lewis, Jessica B.; Cunningham, Shayna D.; Tobin, Jonathan N.; Rising, Sharon Schindler; Thomas, Melanie; Ickovics, Jeannette R. (2017). "Depressive symptoms and gestational length among pregnant adolescents: Cluster randomized control trial of CenteringPregnancy® plus group prenatal care". Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. 85 (6): 574–584. doi:10.1037/ccp0000191. ISSN 1939-2117. PMC 5548378. PMID 28287802.
  13. ^ Ickovics, Jeannette R.; Reed, Elizabeth; Magriples, Urania; Westdahl, Claire; Schindler Rising, Sharon; Kershaw, Trace S. (2011). "Effects of group prenatal care on psychosocial risk in pregnancy: results from a randomised controlled trial". Psychology & Health. 26 (2): 235–250. doi:10.1080/08870446.2011.531577. ISSN 1476-8321. PMC 3311036. PMID 21318932.
  14. ^ Tubay, Amy Tanner; Mansalis, Kate A.; Simpson, Matthew J.; Armitage, Nicole H.; Briscoe, Gabriel; Potts, Vicki (2019-05-01). "The Effects of Group Prenatal Care on Infant Birthweight and Maternal Well-Being: A Randomized Controlled Trial". Military Medicine. 184 (5–6): e440–e446. doi:10.1093/milmed/usy361. ISSN 1930-613X. PMID 30535396.
  15. ^ Trotman, Gylynthia; Chhatre, Gayatri; Darolia, Renuka; Tefera, Eshetu; Damle, Lauren; Gomez-Lobo, Veronica (2015). "The Effect of Centering Pregnancy versus Traditional Prenatal Care Models on Improved Adolescent Health Behaviors in the Perinatal Period". Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. 28 (5): 395–401. doi:10.1016/j.jpag.2014.12.003. ISSN 1873-4332. PMID 26233287.
  16. ^ Magriples, Urania; Boynton, Marcella H.; Kershaw, Trace S.; Lewis, Jessica; Rising, Sharon Schindler; Tobin, Jonathan N.; Epel, Elissa; Ickovics, Jeannette R. (2015). "The impact of group prenatal care on pregnancy and postpartum weight trajectories". American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 213 (5): 688.e1–9. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2015.06.066. ISSN 1097-6868. PMC 4910388. PMID 26164694.
  17. ^ Kershaw, Trace S.; Magriples, Urania; Westdahl, Claire; Rising, Sharon Schindler; Ickovics, Jeannette (2009). "Pregnancy as a Window of Opportunity for HIV Prevention: Effects of an HIV Intervention Delivered Within Prenatal Care". American Journal of Public Health. 99 (11). American Public Health Association: 2079–2086. doi:10.2105/ajph.2008.154476. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 2759789.
  18. ^ DeCesare, Julie Z.; Hannah, Dawn; Amin, Raid (2017). "Postpartum Contraception Use Rates of Patients Participating in the Centering Pregnancy Model of Care Versus Traditional Obstetrical Care". The Journal of Reproductive Medicine. 62 (1–2): 45–49. ISSN 0024-7758. PMID 29999281.
  19. ^ Ickovics, Jeannette R.; Duffany, Kathleen O’Connor; Shebl, Fatma M.; Peters, Sue M.; Read, Margaret A.; Gilstad-Hayden, Kathryn R.; Schwartz, Marlene B. (2019). "Implementing School-Based Policies to Prevent Obesity: Cluster Randomized Trial". American journal of preventive medicine. 56 (1): e1–e11. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2018.08.026. ISSN 0749-3797. PMC 7050629. PMID 30573151.
  20. ^ Ickovics, Jeannette R.; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Peters, Susan M.; Schwartz, Marlene; Gilstad-Hayden, Kathryn; McCaslin, Catherine (2014). "Health and Academic Achievement: Cumulative Effects of Health Assets on Standardized Test Scores Among Urban Youth in the United States". The Journal of school health. 84 (1): 40–48. doi:10.1111/josh.12117. ISSN 0022-4391. PMC 4058503. PMID 24320151.
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