Jennifer Elizabeth Cohn, MD, MPH

Sees patients age 18 and up

Penn Medicine Provider

About me

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

I am the Senior Director of Innovation at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and an infectious disease physician with a focus on HIV, TB and viral hepatitis. At EGPAF, I lead the Innovation and New Technology team in identifying promising innovations and developing and implementing innovative projects and programs. I am an assistant clinical professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and has provided clinical care to people living with HIV, HCV and TB in the US and Kenya.

I received my MD and infectious diseases sub-specialty training at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and my masters in public health (MPH) at Johns Hopkins University. I have served on national HIV treatment and care advisory committees in Kenya, international advisory groups on TB, HIV and viral hepatitis and have participated in WHO guidelines groups. I am published in peer-reviewed journals including Science, the Lancet, PLoS Medicine and JAIDS.

Education and training

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Insurance accepted

Aetna

Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)

Centivo

Cigna Healthcare

Claim Watcher (Homestead/INDECs)

Clover Health

Devoted Health Plan

Geisinger Health Plan

Global Medical Management

HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan

Highmark Blue Shield

Highmark Wholecare (fka Gateway Health)

Horizon BC/BS of NJ

Humana Medicare

Humana Military (Tricare/Health Net Federal Services)

Imagine Health (Imagine Health 360)

Independence Blue Cross (IBC)

Jefferson Health Plans/Health Partners

Keystone First Health Plan

Medicaid - New Jersey

Medicaid - Pennsylvania

Medicare - Pennsylvania

Oscar Health Plan of PA

Oxford Health Plan

PA Health & Wellness

Perennial Advantage

Preferred Health Care/Eliance

Provider Partners Health Plan

Qualcare

Rail Road Medicare/Palmetto GBA

UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of PA

UPMC Health Plan

US Family Health Plan

VA Insurance (Veteran's CCN)

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Dr. Cohn is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Board certifications

Memberships

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Vrinda Nampoothiri, Ritika Kondel Bhandari, Avaneesh Kumar Pandey, Oluchi Mbamalu, Jennifer Cohn, Sanjeev Singh, Marc Mendelson, Nusrat Shafiq, Esmita Charani Responding to and managing antibiotic shortages: a qualitative study with experts and opinion leaders , Wellcome Open Research, 10: 2025,347

Martina Penazzato, Asma Hafiz, Sébastien Morin, Farihah Malik, Bernadette Cappello, Jennifer Cohn, Tim R Cressey, Patricia Fassinou, Anthony J Garcia-Prats, Luann Hatane, Janice Soo Fern Lee, Tiziana Masini, Atieno Ojoo, Theodore Ruel, David Ruiz Villafranca, Marie Valentin, John C Reeder Accelerating access to paediatric medicines: lessons learned from the Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations, a WHO-hosted network , Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 9(5): 2025,337-348

Kunihiro Matsushita, Sonia Y Angell, Lawrence J Appel, Helen Bygrave, Jennifer Cohn, Robert Kalyesubula, Prabhdeep Kaur, Andrew E Moran, Margaret Mswema, Veronica Schoj, Aletta E Schutte, Ruitai Shao, Xin-Hua Zhang, Pedro Ordunez, Taskeen Khan Priorities for research on hypertension care delivery: a WHO report executive summary , Hypertension, 82(6): 2025,971-976

Anant Mishra, Rahul Dwivedi, Kim Faure, Daniel J Morgan, Jennifer Cohn Estimated undertreatment of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections in eight low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study , Lancet Infectious Diseases: 2025

Morgan K Walker, Emad A Chishti, Christina Yek, Sadia Sarzynski, Sahil Angelo, Jennifer Cohn, Alicia A Livinski, Sameer S Kadri Using a Difficult-to-treat Resistance Index to Gauge Imbalance between Countries’ Antibiotic Resistance Prevalence and Access to Antibiotics: A Scoping Review and Concept Proposal , Clinical Microbiology and Infection: 2025

Cohn J, Balasegaram M, Srinivasan H, Menghaney L, Mpundu M, Waning B, Alimi Y. Improving equitable access for effective antibacterial: an ecosystem approach , Clin Microbiol Infect: 2025

Avaneesh Kumar Pandey, Nusrat Shafiq, Ritika Kondel Bhandari, Vrinda Nampoothiri, Jennifer Cohn, Alison Holmes, Anne-Gete Marsten, Sanjeev Singh, Marc Mendelson, Samir Malhotra, Esmita Charani A living systematic review on anti-HIV, anti-TB and anti-malarial drug unavailability and their impact on infection management , International Journal of Infectious Diseases: 2025

Ursula Theuretzbacher, Ravindra P Jumde, Alan Hennessy, Jennifer Cohn, Laura JV Piddock Global health perspectives on antibacterial drug discovery and the preclinical pipeline , Nature Reviews Microbiology: 2025

Motta F, Nizamuddin S, Khan E, Muraya T, Vega S, Fadare J, Koya SF, Villegas MV, Sultan F, Lumley T, Dwivedi R, Jankelowitz L, Cohn J. A Landscaping Assessment and Call-to-Action to Improve Access to Novel Reserve Antibiotics in 14 Low- and Middle-Income Countries , Public Health Chall, 3: 2024,e70005

Lemaire JF, Cohn J, Kakayeva S, et al. Improving TB detection among children in routine clinical care through intensified case finding in facility-based child health entry points and decentralized management: A before-and-after study in Nine Sub-Saharan African Countries , PLOS Glob Public Health, 5(4): 2024