Jennifer A. Taylor, PhD, MPH, was recently named Assistant Professor in the Drexel University School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Dr. Taylor’s research expertise includes occupational safety, patient quality improvement, healthcare workforce culture and injury epidemiology. She brings more than 15 years of experience in state government, hospital management and basic sciences to an already internationally renowned faculty.
Dr. Taylor’s research extends to healthcare systems, public policy and enhancing occupational safety through workplace solutions. This includes promoting hospital safety through such policies as pay-for-performance and other non-punitive improvement incentives. Her research also addresses the association between workplace culture and injuries to patients and nurses.
Prior to joining Drexel SPH, Dr. Taylor served as the Chief of Health Statistics and Data Management for the State of New Hampshire. She also served as the director of a CDC-funded program to establish emergency department data systems for injury surveillance at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and other related positions.
She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 2007 and her MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health in 1999.
Dr. Taylor has significant teaching experience and has been awarded numerous awards and recognition for her research, including The William Haddon, Jr. Fellowship in Injury Prevention and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Training Fellowship in Occupational Injury. She also serves on several boards of directors and advisory councils, and routinely gives invited talks and conference presentations about her work nationwide.
Dr. Taylor is a member of the American Public Health Association, National Association of Health Data Organizations, Academy Health and National Association of Public Health Statistics and Information Systems.