Biography
Dr. Jarlenski's work advances knowledge about how policies may affect pregnancy and reproductive health. Currently, Dr. Jarlenski leads a multi-disciplinary research group with Dr. Elizabeth Krans to investigate how to improve health outcomes for persons with opioid use disorders in pregnancy. She is Principal Investigator of two research projects: 1) research using real-world data to understand access to and quality of OUD treatment and pregnancy outcomes (R01DA045675), and 2) an implementation-effectiveness trial of a provider-level intervention to improve OUD treatment in pregnancy and subsequent outcomes (R01DA049759). Dr. Jarlenski also conducts work under an inter-governmental agreement to provide research support for the Pennsylvania Medicaid program, where she currently co-leads (with Dr. Dara Mendez) a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded project to study interventions to advance racial equity in pregnancy and birth outcomes. She has authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, and her work has been cited by state and national policy-makers. Dr. Jarlenski earned her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, M.P.H. from the Yale School of Public Health, and B.A. from Otterbein College.