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Janine Bruce, MPH, Ford Foundation Research Fellow Janine Bruce is a Ford Foundation Research Fellow at the Public Health Institute's Center for Research on Adolescent Health and Development. She is currently a second year fellow examining national, state, and local policies and practices regarding sexual and reproductive health for youth in foster care. By gaining a better understanding of these policies, she hopes to explore interdisciplinary community, practice, and policy level solutions to eliminate reproductive health disparities among foster care youth. Bruce has nearly ten years experience with the Pediatric Advocacy Program at Stanford School of Medicine, which strives to bridge public health and medicine to promote the health of underserved child and adolescent populations. The Advocacy Program encourages strong community-based partnerships and initiatives, and promotes sound policy level advocacy. In addition to this work, Bruce spent two years working in Kyrgyzstan as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching ecology and English to secondary school students, organizing programs for children with special needs, and working with Abt Associates Inc. on a national health reform initiative. Bruce received a masters in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
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