Biography

Jane T. Bertrand, PhD, MBA, is a professor, jointly appointed in the Departments of Health Policy & Management and International Health & Sustainable Development. She also holds the Neal A. and Mary Vanselow endowed chair. Her work has involved program evaluation and behavior change communication in the areas of international family planning and HIV prevention. Dr. Bertrand has been on the Tulane faculty since 1979, except for the period from 2002-09 when she directed the Center for Communication Programs (CCP), at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her published research focuses on Sub-Saharan and Latin America. In recent years she has worked primarily on the implementation and evaluation of family planning programs to increase contraceptive use in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At Tulane she teaches one graduate level course: International Family Planning: Policies and Programs. Also, she serves as faculty adviser for Global Scholars. She is fluent in French and Spanish.

Education & Affiliations

B.A., Brown University, French, 1971 M.A., University of Chicago, Social Science Communication, 1973 Ph.D., University of Chicago, Sociology, 1976 M.B.A., Tulane University, Business and Management, 2001

Academic Experience

• Professor, Tulane University, 2009-
• Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 2001-2009
• Professor, Tulane University, 1992-2001
• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1984-1992
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1979-1984

Distinctions

• Marjorie C. Horn Operations Research Award from Office of Population & Reproductive Health, 2007
• “Champion of Public Health” Award, Tulane, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2001.
• Tulane President’s Office Employee Scholarship for the Executive MBA Program, 2000-2001
• Dean’s teaching incentive awards, Tulane University, 1994, 1995
• Elected to Delta Omega, national honorary public health society, 1981.

Languages

• Spanish 5
• French 5

Overseas Experience

• Guatemala
• El Salvador
• Mexico
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Haiti
• Cuba
• Colombia
• Peru
• Ecuador

Related Experience

• Marjorie C. Horn Operations Research Award from Office of Population & Reproductive Health, 2007
• “Champion of Public Health” Award, Tulane, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 2001.
• Tulane President’s Office Employee Scholarship for the Executive MBA Program, 2000-2001
• Dean’s teaching incentive awards, Tulane University, 1994, 1995
• Elected to Delta Omega, national honorary public health society, 1981.

Recent Publications

• 2018. “An observational study to test the acceptability and feasibility of using medical and nursing students to instruct clients in DMPA-SC self-injection at the community level in Kinshasa,” with Bidashimwa, D., Makani, P.B., Hernandez, J.H., Akilimali,
• 2018. “Task-shifting the provision of DMPA-SC in the DR Congo: Perspectives from two different groups of providers,” Hernandez, J.H., Akilimali, P., Glover, A., Emel, R., and Mwembo, A.Contraception. 98(5):449-453.
• 2018. “Acceptability of the distribution of DMPA-SC by community health workers among acceptors in the rural province of Lualaba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a pilot study,” with Mwembo A., Emel, R., Koba, T., Sankoko, J.B., Ngay, A., and Gay,
• 2018. “Accelerate progress-sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: report of the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission,” with Starrs, A.M., Eseh, A.C., Barker, G., Basu, A., Blum, R., Coll-Seck, A.M., Grover, A., Laski, L., Roa, M., Sathar, Z.A., Say, L

Courses

Fundamentals of Program Evaluation