Jennifer Hollowell

Jennifer Hollowell is currently collaborating with CASBS fellow Ralph Schroeder on a study about how Sweden’s exceptional approach to Covid-19 was regarded in other parts of the world, especially the US. The study explores how the Swedish approach was represented and discussed in traditional and alternative (right-wing) media outlets in the US. During her time as a visiting scholar at CASBS she will continue with this study together with research on behaviour change in a global health context.

Hollowell is an epidemiologist and medical anthropologist. She was previously an associate professor in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) at the University of Oxford where her research focussed on maternal health and childbirth and on social and ethnic disparities in pregnancy outcomes and infant mortality. 

More recently she has moved into the field of global health and currently works for an international NGO that creates and delivers mass media health-related behaviour change interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. She has been involved in the design and evaluation of radio, TV and social media campaigns targeting child survival, family planning, parenting practices that support early child development, and (currently) mental health. During the pandemic she worked on a series of rapid-response radio and TV campaigns relating to Covid-19.