As an adolescent medicine physician, I specialize in primary care and consultative care for adolescents, specifically addressing common conditions including:
In our clinical practice, we focus on reducing health disparities and improving equitable health outcomes for adolescents and young adults.
My research interests focus on generating the data needed to maximize the public health impact of technologies to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers. I want to help decrease disability and deaths due to cervical cancer and other conditions caused by HPV. This includes reducing racial and ethnic disparities in these diseases.
My current research program investigates primary and secondary prevention of HPV-related diseases using technologies such as Pap tests, HPV DNA testing and HPV vaccines. Our studies have:
My colleagues and I hope to maximize the uptake of primary prevention strategies such as vaccines and characterize the impact of HPV vaccine introduction in communities. Ideally, my research efforts will guide public health efforts, vaccination guidelines, and cervical cancer screening programs.
I am honored to have received the Huffman-Capraro Young Investigator Award from the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. I also received the New Investigator Award from the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM).
I am currently the immediate past-president of SAHM and have served on national and international committees and advisory groups focused on vaccines and other adolescent health issues. My roles have included:
The National Institutes of Health, WHO and foundations such as the American Cancer Society have provided grants for my research. To date, I have published more than 175 articles and am a contributing author for several medical textbooks.
In addition to my clinical and research work, I am a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent and Transition Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. I serve as the director of the Office of Academic Affairs and Career Development, as well as the co-director for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training (CCTST).
BArch: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1986.
MD: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1992.
MPH: Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 1999.
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 1995; Chief Resident, Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 1996.
Fellowship: Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, 1999.
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 1995; American Board of Pediatrics, subspecialist in Adolescent Medicine, 1999.
Primary care; sexual and reproductive health; eating disorders; mental health disorders
Adolescent Medicine
Interdisciplinary clinical and epidemiologic studies related to prevention of cervical cancer and other diseases caused by human papillomavirus (HPV)
Adolescent Medicine
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Evidence for cross-protection but not type-replacement over the 11 years after human papillomavirus vaccine introduction. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics. 2019; 15:1962-1969.
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Effectiveness and Herd Protection in Young Women. Pediatrics. 2019; 143.
Faculty Members' Self-Awareness, Leadership Confidence, and Leadership Skills Improve after an Evidence-Based Leadership Training Program. Journal of Pediatrics. 2018; 199:4-6.e2.
Epidemiology of Any and Vaccine-Type Anogenital Human Papillomavirus Among 13-26-Year-Old Young Men After HPV Vaccine Introduction. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2018; 63:43-49.
HIV-Infected Young Men Demonstrate Appropriate Risk Perceptions and Beliefs about Safer Sexual Behaviors after Human Papillomavirus Vaccination. AIDS and Behavior. 2018; 22:1826-1834.
Non-Vaccine-Type Human Papillomavirus Prevalence After Vaccine Introduction: No Evidence for Type Replacement but Evidence for Cross-Protection. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 2018; 45:260-265.
Human Papillomavirus Vaccine-Related Risk Perceptions Do Not Predict Sexual Initiation Among Young Women Over 30 Months Following Vaccination. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2018; 62:164-169.
Substantial Decline in Vaccine-Type Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Among Vaccinated Young Women During the First 8 Years After HPV Vaccine Introduction in a Community. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2016; 63:1281-1287.
Jessica A. Kahn, MD, MPH5/20/2020
Jessica A. Kahn, MD, MPH7/1/2019
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