Jennifer J. Frost, Senior Research Associate

Jennifer J. Frost, Ph.D., joined AGI in 1992. After serving as Assistant Director of Research for a number of years, she is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Institute. She is the principal investigator/manager for various studies regarding family planning service delivery, contraceptive use, adolescent sexuality and pregnancy, and access to reproductive health care. Her publications include ; ; Contraceptive Needs and Services, 1995; Sex and America's Teenagers; Uneven and Unequal: Insurance Coverage and Reproductive Health Services and Teenagers’ Pregnancy Intentions and Decisions: A Study of Young Women in California Choosing to Give Birth, as well as numerous journal publications. Dr. Frost received a B.A. from Pomona College and her M.P.H. and Ph.D. in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a member of the American Public Health Association, the Population Association of America, the Association for Reproductive Health Professionals and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.

Recent Publications Include:

Finer LB, Darroch JE and Frost JJ, Services for men at publicly funded family planning agencies, 1998-1999, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2003 35(5):202-207.

Sonfield A, Gold RB, Frost JJ. and Darroch JE., U.S. insurance coverage of contraceptives and the impact of contraceptive coverage mandates, 2002, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 36(2): 72–9.

Frost JJ, Family Planning Annual Report: 2001 Summary, Part 1 and Part 2: detailed tables, submitted to The Office of Populations Affairs, DHHS, August 2002.

Finer LB, Darroch JE and Frost JJ, U.S. Agencies Providing Publicly Funded Contraceptive Services in 1999, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002 34(1):15–24.

Singh, S, Darroch JE and Frost JJ, Socioeconomic disadvantage and adolescent women's sexual and reproductive behavior: the case of five developed countries, Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, 33(6):251-8, 289.

Frost JJ et. al, Family Planning Clinic Services in the United States: Patterns and Trends in the late 1990s, Family Planning Perspectives, 2001 33(3):113–122.

Frost JJ, Public or Private Providers? U.S. Women’s Use of reproductive health services, Family Planning Perspectives, 2001 33(1) 4–12.

Manzella K and Frost JJ, Family Planning Annual Report: 2000 Summary, Part 1 and Part 2: detailed tables, submitted to The Office of Populations Affairs, DHHS, November 2001.

Frost, JJ and Darroch JE, “Family Planning,” entry in the Encyclopedia of Sociology, eds. E.F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.

Darroch, JE and Frost JJ, Women's interest in vaginal microbicides, Family Planning Perspective 1999, 31(1):16–23.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sex and America's Teenagers, New York: AGI, 1994.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Uneven and Unequal, New York: AGI, 1994.