May 23, 2025
Breast cancer guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Past controversies and coming challenges
In-person: Hallie E. Ford Center room 115
Remote via Zoom
Speaker
Jillian Henderson, PhD, MPH
Jillian Henderson, PhD, MPH conducts research to support evidence-based clinical and health policy recommendations to improve the health of women and families in domestic and global contexts.
At the Center for Health Research, Dr. Henderson leads and co-leads systematic reviews on preventive reproductive health care topics for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, such as cervical cancer screening, routine pelvic examinations, ovarian cancer screening, preeclampsia prevention and screening, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections. She also serves as the Methodologist for the Cochrane Collaboration Fertility Regulation Group based at Oregon Health Sciences University.
Before joining CHR, Dr. Henderson was assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She led and collaborated on research funded by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and private foundations. She has worked on international studies on the safety and quality of family planning services and on the implementation of national guidelines for preventive screening. While at UCSF, she collaborated on projects with clinicians and social scientists aimed at improving reproductive health across the life span by addressing risks associated with pregnancy and childbearing, improving contraception and abortion care, preventing sexually transmitted infections, and screening for cancers of the reproductive tract.
Dr. Henderson earned her PhD in health services research and MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her BS in biology from the University of Oregon.