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Jameta Nicole Barlow

Headshot of Jameta Barlow in a green shirt with a blue jacket over it standing in front of a street of row houses.

Jameta Nicole Barlow

Assistant Professor of Writing and of Women's Leadership

Contact:

Office Phone: 202-242-6495
Professor Barlow's Personal Website
Ames Hall 2100 Foxhall Road, NW, Office 210 Washington DC 20007

Jameta Nicole Barlow, PhD, MPH, is a community health psychologist, public health scientist and women's health scholar who utilizes decolonizing methodologies to disrupt cardiometabolic syndrome  and structural policies adversely affecting Black girls' and women's health, as well as intergenerational trauma. She has spent 23 years in transdisciplinary collaborations with physicians, public health practitioners, researchers, policy administrators, activists, political appointees, and community members in diverse settings throughout the world. Dr. Barlow’s writings on Black girls' and women's health, healing and restorative health practices in psychology and public health research appear in various publications.

Health Policy & Management

Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

UW 1020: Writing Science and Health: Women's Health As Point of Inquiry

UW2020W WGSS 3170W: writing/righting Black girls' and women's health

Barlow, J. N., & Venkataraman, S. (2022). Womanism and Re-Imagining Black Women's Health Promotion. American Journal of Health Promotion, 08901171221134170.

Barlow, Jameta Nicole, E Okafor and A Korme. “Gender, Health, and Social Justice in Ghana: Reflections on the Women’s Manifesto for Ghana and Recommendations.” Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis and Research, Special Issue on Africa-America 20/20: Re-envisioning Liberation for the Global Black Diaspora. Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (2020): 81.

Barlow, J. N., & Johnson, B. M. (2020). Listen to Black Women: Do Black Feminist and Womanist Health Policy Analyses. Women's Health Issues.

Barlow, J. N., & Smith, G. P. (2019). What The Health (WTH)?: Theorising Southern Black Feminisms in the US South. Agenda, 33(3), 19-33.

Barlow, J. N., & Jones, T. C. (2018). Reclaiming Health for Black Women and Girls: A Conversation with Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 7(2).

Barlow, J. N. (2018). Restoring optimal black mental health and reversing intergenerational trauma in an era of Black Lives Matter. Biography, 41(4), 895-908.

Barlow, J. N., & Dill, L. J. (2018). Speaking for ourselves: Reclaiming, redesigning, and reimagining research on Black women’s health.

Barlow, J. N. (2016). # WhenIFellInLoveWithMyself: Disrupting the gaze and loving our Black Womanist self as an act of political warfare. Meridians, 15(1), 205-217.

Satia, J. A., Barlow, J., Armstrong-Brown, J., & Watters, J. L. (2010). A qualitative study to explore Prospect theory and message framing and diet and cancer prevention-related issues among African American adolescents. Cancer nursing, 33(2), 102.

Allicock, M., Campbell, M. K., Valle, C. G., Barlow, J. N., Carr, C., Meier, A., & Gizlice, Z. (2010). Evaluating the implementation of peer counseling in a church-based dietary intervention for African Americans. Patient education and counseling, 81(1), 37-42.

Ph.D., Psychology, North Carolina State University, 2014

MPH, Maternal and Child Health, The George Washington University, 2003

BA, English, Spelman College, 2001