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Sonia Jain, Dr.PH
Founder and Principal Dr. Jain, an innovative passionate leader in public health driven to make a difference in the world through meaningful data, Dr. Jain is a seasoned equity-focused evaluator with 25 years leading a range of evaluation projects ensuring data use and shifting mindsets, decision-making, shared accountability and change across public health, juvenile justice, education, mental health and nonprofits sector. |
Highly collaborative, strengths-based and solution-focused, Dr. Jain is a strategic and pragmatic thought partner with strong research background grounded in multi-level theory, methods and tools. She is passionate about empowering and supporting progressive integrated systems change, organizational development and implementation of evidence-based strategies towards greatest collective impact. She has designed and led over 50-80 evaluation studies from participatory community-based participatory action research projects, empowerment evaluation, implementation science, results-based accountability to more rigorous quasi- or experimental evaluations. She has developed and administered a variety of data collection tools with high response rates, including culturally-relevant surveys, focus groups, interviews, observations, photo voice and other creative methods to capture voice of diverse communities. She has lead data standards, vetted tools, mesaures and worked closed with IT to create meaningful useful dashboards. She has conducted numerous trainings/TA working closely with diverse communities, youth, and stakeholders to build data capacity and use to ensure learning, improvement and policy/systems change.
Dr. Jain has co-authored numerous reports, fact sheets, presentations, and papers in the areas of racial/ethnic and gender inequities, child and youth development, resilience and developmental assets, mental health, systems change, social determinants of health inequities, violence prevention, and women's health. Dr. Jain received her Doctorate in Social Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health in 2007 and MPH in Environmental Epidemiology from UCLA in 1998.
Grounded in daily meditation and walks, I love reading, creative writing, hiking, arts and traveling.
Select Publications
Jain S, Buka SL, Subramanian SV, and Molnar BE. Neighborhood predictors of dating violence in early adulthood: a multilevel study. American Journal of Public Health. 2010; 100: 1737-1744.
Jain, S., Buka, S. L., Subramanian, S. V., & Molnar, B. E. (2012). Protective factors for youth exposed to violence: Role of developmental assets for building emotional resilience. Journal of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 1:10.
Jain, S., & Cohen, A. K. Behavioral adjustment among youth exposed to community violence: A longitudinal multidisciplinary study of family, peer and neighborhood-level protective factors. Prevention Science. 2013; 14 (6):606-17.
Jain, S., & Cohen, A. K. Fostering resilience among urban youth exposed to violence: A promising area for interdisciplinary research and practice. Health Education and Behavior. 2013; 40(6): 651-62.
Dr. Jain has co-authored numerous reports, fact sheets, presentations, and papers in the areas of racial/ethnic and gender inequities, child and youth development, resilience and developmental assets, mental health, systems change, social determinants of health inequities, violence prevention, and women's health. Dr. Jain received her Doctorate in Social Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health in 2007 and MPH in Environmental Epidemiology from UCLA in 1998.
Grounded in daily meditation and walks, I love reading, creative writing, hiking, arts and traveling.
Select Publications
Jain S, Buka SL, Subramanian SV, and Molnar BE. Neighborhood predictors of dating violence in early adulthood: a multilevel study. American Journal of Public Health. 2010; 100: 1737-1744.
Jain, S., Buka, S. L., Subramanian, S. V., & Molnar, B. E. (2012). Protective factors for youth exposed to violence: Role of developmental assets for building emotional resilience. Journal of Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 1:10.
Jain, S., & Cohen, A. K. Behavioral adjustment among youth exposed to community violence: A longitudinal multidisciplinary study of family, peer and neighborhood-level protective factors. Prevention Science. 2013; 14 (6):606-17.
Jain, S., & Cohen, A. K. Fostering resilience among urban youth exposed to violence: A promising area for interdisciplinary research and practice. Health Education and Behavior. 2013; 40(6): 651-62.