Jennifer J. Frost, Senior Research Associate

Jennifer J. Frost, Ph.D., joined the Guttmacher Institute 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 Can More Progress by Made: Teenage Sexual and Reproductive Behavior in Developed Countries; Fulfilling the Promise: Public Policy and U.S. Family Planning Clinics; 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:

Frost JJ and Darroch JE, Factors associated with contraceptive choice and inconsistent method use, United States, 2004, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2008, 40(2):94-104.

Guttmacher Institute, Improving contraceptive use, In Brief, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2008, No. 1.

Frost JJ, Singh S and Finer LB, Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use and Nonuse, United States, 2004, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2007, 39(2):90-99.

Frost JJ, Singh S and Finer LB, U.S. Women's One-Year Contraceptive Use Patterns, 2004, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2007, 39(1):48-55.

Frost JJ, Sonfield A and Gold RB, Estimating the impact of serving new clients by expanding funding for Title X, Occasional Report, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2006, No. 33.

Frost JJ, Sonfield A and Gold RB, Estimating the impact of expanding Medicaid eligibility for family planning services, Occasional Report, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2006, No. 28.

Lindberg LD, Frost J, Sten C, and Dailard, C, “The Provision and Funding of Contraceptive Services at Publicly Funded Family Planning Agencies: 1995-2003,” Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2006, 38(1):37-45.

Frost JJ and Driscoll AK, Sexual and reproductive hHealth of U.S. latinas: a literature review, Occasional Report, New York: Guttmacher Institute, 2006, No. 19.

Foulkes R, Donoso R, Fredrick B, Frost JJ and Singh S, Opportunities for Action: Addressing Latina Sexual and Reproductive Health, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2005, 37(1):39-44.

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, 2004, 36(2):72-79.

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, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health,2002, 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.