Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Distinguished Professor of Public Health Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology,
and Health Policy and Administration
Penn State College of Medicine

Dr. Weisman is a sociologist and health services researcher whose research focuses on women’s health and on health care delivery system responses to women’s health care needs. Before coming to Penn State, she was Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Professor of Healthy Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She has over 35 years of research experience, including projects funded by NIH, AHRQ, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and various foundations. Currently, she is director of the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study and is consulting with AHRQ, NCQA, and the AMA on women’s health projects. She is the author of over 140 journal articles and parts of books, and is the author of Women’s Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Dr. Weisman received her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Wellesley College and her PhD in Social Relations from Johns Hopkins University.

Professor of Public Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Penn State College of Medicine

Dr. Kjerulff is a psychologist and health services researcher whose research has focused on women’s health for more than 20 years. Her research has been funded by AHRQ, NIH and other sources through a series of large-scale long term studies focusing on outcomes of common treatments, such as hysterectomy, and risk factors for common gynecologic disorders, such as uterine fibroids, using both population-based data sets and clinical studies. Beginning in the 1980’s, she has built a portfolio of research addressing under-studied reproductive health issues in women while at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine. In 2004 she moved to Penn State where her current research is focusing on the fertility consequences of cesarean section and the effects of poverty on stress and depression among women of reproductive age. Dr. Kjerulff recently began a five year study of the issue of fertility following primary cesarean delivery which will enroll nearly 3,000 women who will be followed for a three year period, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH.

Dr. Kjerulff received her BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her MA and PhD in Psychology from the University of Illinois in Champaign.