OUR PEOPLE
Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
490 Illinois Street, #122P
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education and Training
Yale University,New Haven, CT, BA - 05/2008 Political Science
University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, PA, MSW - 05/2010 Social Work
University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, PA, MS - 08/2010 Social Policy
University of California, San Francisco,San Francisco, CA, PhD - 06/2016 Sociology
Awards and Honors
Yale University President’s Public Service Fellowship, Yale University, 2006
Official Citation, City of New Haven, City of New Haven, CT, 2007
Yale University Morse College Fellows Award, Morse College, Yale University, 2008
UCSF National Institute for General Medical Sciences Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2010-2012
UCSF Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2012
AACR Susan G. Komen for the Cure Scholar-in-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 2012
AACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 2012
UCSF Graduate Dean’s Health Science Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2013
Esther Ngan-Ling Chow and Mareyjoyce Green Scholarship, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2013
University of California Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2014
UCSF Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence Research & Leadership Development in Geron, UCSF Hartford Center, 2014
Virginia Olesen Dissertation Scholarship, UCSF Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
UCSF School of Nursing Alumni Association Scholarship, UCSF School of Nursing, 2015
Barbara Rosenblum Dissertation Award, Sociologists for Women in Society, 2015
Qualitative Dissertation Award, International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry, 2018
UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities Scholar, UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities and UCSF Pepper Center, 2019
Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program Scholar, Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program, 2020
Betty Cleckley Minority Issues Research Award, Honorable Mention, American Public Health Association, Aging and Public Health Section, 2020
UCSF Society of Hellman Fellows Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2021
UCSF Population Health and Health Equity Scholar, University of California, San Francisco, 2021
Changemaker in Family Planning Award, Society of Family Planning, 2021
Greenwall Faculty Scholar, Greenwall Foundation, 2021
UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center Emerging Health Equity Scholar Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2022
2022 MSTAR Best Research Mentor Award, University of California Medical Students Training in Aging Research (MSTAR), 2022