Jessica's current research, a mixed methods investigation, focuses on how medical and health-related mistrust may influence the ways in which young men who have sex with men (MSM) think about and make decisions regarding their sexual health, including the decision to use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Prior to this study, she conducted a primarily qualitative investigation that explored disengagement from outpatient HIV care among low income people living with HIV (PLWH) of color, and the ideas commonly referred to as HIV-related “conspiracy beliefs.” Jessica received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, an MPH from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.