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Jill T. Owczarzak, PhD
Assistant Professor
jowczarz@mcw.edu
Dr. Owczarzak, a medical anthropologist, is concerned with how models of health intervention address questions of health disparity. Her research focuses on HIV vulnerability among MSM, sex workers, and injection drug users in Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland. She has used qualitative methods to explore how international organizations perceive HIV risk and how they incorporate ideas of risk into their HIV prevention programs. Dr. Owczarzak's interests include how providers adopt and modify prevention interventions and the effectiveness of these modified interventions in reducing health disparities.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Telephone: 414.955.7700
Fax: 414.287.4206
EDUCATION
PhD - Medical Anthropology; University of Kentucky
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Owczarzak, J. (2012). Evidence-based HV prevention in community settings: Provider perspectives on evidence and effectiveness. Critical Public Health, 22(1), 73-84.
Owczarzak, J. & Dickson-Gomez, J. (2011). Providers’ perspectives on evidence-based HIV prevention interventions: Barriers and facilitators to implementation. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 25(3), 171-179.
Owczarzak, J. & Dickson-Gomez, J. (2011). Providers’ perceptions of and receptivity toward evidence-based HIV prevention interventions. AIDS Education and Prevention, 23(2).
Owczarzak, J., Petroll, A.E., & Lechuga, J. (2011). HIV testing as a standard of care for men who have sex with men: Patient and provider perspectives. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 2(2), 116-121.
Owczarzak, J. (2010). Activism, NGOs, and HIV prevention in postsocialist Poland: The role of "anti-politics." Human Organization, 69(2), 200-211.
Owczarzak, J. (2009). Defining HIV risk and determining responsibility in postsocialist Poland. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 23(4), 417-435.
Moskowitz, D., Melton, D., & Owczarzak, J. (2009). PowerON: The use of instant message counseling and the Internet to facilitate HIV/STD education and prevention. Patient Education and Counseling 77(1), 20-26.
Owczarzak, J. (2009). Introduction: Postcolonial studies and postsocialism in Eastern Europe. Focaal, 53, 3-19. PMCID: PMC2907893
Owczarzak, J. (2009). Defining democracy and the terms of engagement with the postsocialist Polish state: Insights from HIV/AIDS. East European Politics and Societies, 23(3), 421-445.