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IU Bloomington

Kristen Jozkowski

School of Public Health / Kinsey Institute

Expert Bio

Kristen Jozkowski is the William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual Health in the School of Public Health-Bloomington’s Department of Applied Health Science and a senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute. She is leading a multiyear research project investigating U.S. adults’ attitudes toward abortion.

She has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed articles and over 200 presentations at national and international conferences. Her work has been cited by media including The New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Daily Beast and Cosmopolitan magazine.

Her research focuses on sexual consent and refusal communication, sociocultural factors that influence consent communication, alcohol-facilitated sexual assault risk factors, and measure development. She has training in mixed methodology and received her Ph.D. from IU in 2011.

Areas of Expertise

Attitudes toward abortion, sexual consent and refusal communication, sociocultural factors that influence consent communication, alcohol-facilitated sexual assault risk factors, measure development.