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Petra Jerman, PhD, MPH, Research Scientist Dr. Jerman is a research psychologist specializing in adolescent sexual health policy. Petra received her PhD in forensic psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in 2003, and her MPH in interdisciplinary public health at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2006. Her doctoral dissertation examined the relationships between parenting styles and children's self-determination and nurturance rights. Her MPH research paper on STIs among California youth grew into the No Time for Complacency study she led on this topic, generating more than 60 newspaper, TV, and radio stories in California, the US, and internationally. Petra is currently leading a CRAHD study on parent adolescent communication about sexuality, assessing the sexual health needs of foster youth in California, and serving as research scientist with the Adolescent Sexual Health Policy Project and the Evidence Use in the Sex Education Debates study. She has previously worked as a research fellow at the Central California Children's Institute in Fresno, where she co-authored reports on teen pregnancy, childhood and adolescent obesity and asthma, several indicator reports on child and adolescent health and well-being, and a policy brief on food insecurity and hunger in children of immigrants.
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