Jeffery B. Bingenheimer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health at The George Washington University. Prior to joining GWSPH, he was a NICHD-funded post-doctoral fellow in family demography and individual development at the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Master of Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy, both in health behavior and health education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 1999 and 2005, respectively. After completing his doctorate in 2005, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and
Society Scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health. His current research focuses on the influences of gendered family, peer group, and community contexts of behavioral risk factors for HIV, STIs, and pregnancy among adolescents and young adults in Ghana.