About J.A. Grisso

This is how J.A. is a Changemaker:
Jeane Ann Grisso, M.D., M.Sc., FACP, is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she serves on the Human Capital and Vulnerable Population Teams. She is currently working in the areas of violence prevention, vulnerable populations, and leadership development. Prior to joining RWJF in November 2001, Grisso was a tenured professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as well as a senior scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute, senior fellow of the Institute on Aging and director of the FOCUS on Health & Leadership for Women program. She is a fellow of the Society for Epidemiological Research and the American College of Physicians. Grisso earned her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia followed by a Milbank Scholar Award during which she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. An accomplished researcher, Grisso has extensive experience in conducting large-scale epidemiological and community-based projects, in urban health issues, women’s health, violence, and aging. She has published over 100 papers in scientific journals.