Jennifer Cohen is an assistant professor of global and intercultural studies at Miami University and joint researcher in Ezintsha, in the Reproductive Health and HIV Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her mixed-methods research focuses on women and work, nurses, stress, household networks, social determinants of health, and racial disparities in health. Her current areas of research include nurses' health and linkages between healthcare workers' households and healthcare systems. Cohen earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a M.A. in political science from the University of Arizona, and a Bachelor of Science degree in geography and sociology from Florida State Univesity.