Professor
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
Jack Turman, Jr., Ph.D. is a professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine. He has dedicated his years in academia to growing education, research and outreach programs that optimize maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes for marginalized communities. After graduating with his bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, he earned his Ph.D. from UCLA and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. He was a professor for 15 years at the University of Southern California where his work was recognized by the state legislative bodies for building university-community partnerships to improve maternal and child health. He was then a professor and program director at the University of Nebraska Medical Center wherein he created community-based programming to address racial disparities in birth outcomes in partnership with Omaha’s African American Community.
He moved to Indiana in 2013 to become the Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Indiana State University, where he worked to grow maternal and child health programming to serve rural, low-income moms and families in the Wabash Valley. He joined the faculty of Indiana University in 2017, where he founded and directs the Grassroots MCH Initiative. This multifaceted Initiative works to advance the human rights of women, children, and families by building the capacity of individuals and organizations to bring about systems change to improve the health and social outcomes for traditionally marginalized communities.
Dr. Turman’s work has been recognized by state governments and the US Department of State for his efforts to advance women’s social and economic empowerment. He was profiled by the American Public Health Association as a 2022 Thought Leader because of his work growing grassroots efforts to bring equity to maternal and child health in our nation.
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