Jennifer Elizabeth Cohn, MD, MPH

Sees patients age 18 and up
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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.

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

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

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Aislinn Cook, Ben Cooper, Mike Thorn, Nam Nguyen, Cherry Lim, Myo Maung Maung Swe, Kasim Allel, Gisela Robles Aguilar, Catrin E Moore, Joseph A Lewnard, Jennifer Cohn, Marc Mendelson, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Padmini Srikantiah, Koen B Pouwels, Michael Sharland Estimating optimal levels of WHO Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) antibiotic use in 186 countries, territories, and areas on the basis of clinical infection and resistance burden , The Lancet Public Health, 11(8): 2026

Avaneesh Kumar Pandey, Ritika Kondel Bhandari, Esmita Charani, Jennifer Cohn, Amrita Ghautare, Anne-Grete Märtson, Uttara Gadde, Sipho Dlamini, Malcolm Miller, Samir Malhotra, Thomas Tängdén, Sanjeev Singh, Marc Mendelson, Nusrat Shafiq Drug stock-outs in HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria programs: a systematic review , EClinicalMedicine, 98: 2026

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