Janina Jochim

Janina is in a black and white photo with a group of women smiling directly at the camera.
Postdoctoral Researcher
janina.jochim@spi.ox.ac.uk

Janina Jochim is a post-doctoral researcher with the HEY BABY team and part of the Accelerate Team led by Lucie Cluver. She has a passion for policy-relevant research aiming to promote the wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women and is extremely fortunate to be learning from a wonderful team of inspiring colleagues across the world.

Janina completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2021 where research focused on the pre-and post-pregnancy risk factors that interrupted continued school enrolment for adolescent mothers in South Africa. In her latest analyses, she has examined how access to formal childcare services can improve multiple health and human capital outcomes for adolescent mothers and their children. She also works in close collaboration with the South African Department of Education to generate evidence for the implementation of recent policies to support pregnant learners and learners with children. Moving forward, she is particularly excited to work on a set of UNICEF-supported analyses to develop a 'Package of Care' which will aim to improve the lives of adolescent mothers across Africa.

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Janina completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2021 where research focused on the pre-and post-pregnancy risk factors that interrupted continued school enrolment for adolescent mothers in South Africa. In her latest analyses, she has examined how access to formal childcare services can improve multiple health and human capital outcomes for adolescent mothers and their children.

She also works in close collaboration with the South African Department of Education to generate evidence for the implementation of recent policies to support pregnant learners and learners with children. Moving forward, she is particularly excited to work on a set of UNICEF-supported analyses to develop a 'Package of Care' which will aim to improve the lives of adolescent mothers across Africa.

Publications

  1. Toska, Saal, Chen-Charles, Wittesaele, Langwenya, Jochim, Steventon Roberts, Anquandah, Banoughnin, Laurenzi, Sherr, and Cluver (2022). Achieving the health and well-being Sustainable Development Goals among adolescent mothers and their children in South Africa: cross-sectional analyses of a community-based mixed HIV-status cohort. Accepted PloS One.  

  2. Steventon Roberts, Smith, Toska, Cluver, Wittesaele, Langwenya, Shenderovich, Saal, Jochim, Chen-Charles, Marlow, and Sherr (2022). Adolescent mothers and their children affected by HIV – an exploration of maternal mental health, and child cognitive development. Accepted PloS One.  

  3. Sherr, Haag, Steventon Roberts, Cluver, Wittesaele, Saliwe, Tolmay, Langwenya, Jochim, Saal, Zhou, Marlow, Chen-Charles, and Toska (2022). The development of children born to young mothers with no, first-or second-generation HIV acquisition in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa: A cross-sectional study.  BMJ Open, 12:e058340.  

  4. Steventon Roberts, Smith, Toska, Cluver, Haag, Wittesaele, Langwenya, Jochim, Saal, Shenderovich, and Sherr (2022). Risk factors for poor mental health among adolescent mothers in South Africa. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1-18.  

  5. Jochim, Meinck, Roberts, Wittesaele, Langwenya, Toska, and Cluver (2022). Which factors affect postpartum educational enrollment of adolescent mothers in South Africa? A latent class analysis. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1-17. 

  6. Steventon Roberts, Sherr, Haag, Smith, Jochim, Toska, Marlow, and Cluver (2022). Adolescent parenthood and HIV-infection in South Africa - associations with child cognitive development. PLOS Global Public Health, 2(5), e0000238.  

  7. Jochim, Steventon Roberts, Toska, Meinck, and Cluver (2022). Who goes back school after birth? Factors associated with postpartum school-return in South African adolescent mothers. Global Public Health, 1-15.   

  8. Steventon Roberts, Smith, Cluver, Toska, Jochim, Wittesaele, Marlow, and Sherr (2022). Adolescent parenthood and HIV-infection – Associations with child cognitive development. PLOS Global Public Health, 2(5), e0000238.  

  9. Meinck, Neelakantan, Steele, Jochim, Davies, Boyes, Barlow, and Dunne (2022). Measuring Violence Against Children: A COSMIN Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Child and Adolescent Self-report Measures. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 15248380221082152  

  10. Jochim, Meinck, and Cluver (2021). Factors associated with girls’ school-withdrawal during pregnancy: Cross-sectional results from South African adolescent mothers. International Journal of Educational Development, 87, 102484.   

  11. Jochim, Groves, and Cluver (2020). When do adolescent mothers return to school? Timing across rural and urban South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 110 (9), p.850-854.    

  12. Wolff, Jochim, Akyurek, Buschman, and Stokes (2020). Drifting codes within a stable coding scheme for working memory. Plos Biology, 18(3), e3000625.  

  13. Jochim, Rifkin-Zybutz, Geddes, and Cipriani (2019). Valproate for acute mania in bipolar disorder. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD004052.pub2. 

  14. Meinck, Jochim, Dunne, Steinert, Pilard, Toska, Boyes, and Barlow (2018). Systematic review of the psychometric properties of measures for child abuse and neglect. PROSPERO 2017:CRD42017062251 Available from http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD42017062251 

  15. Wolff, Jochim, Akyurek, and Stokes (2017). Dynamic hidden states underlying working memory guided behaviour. Nature Neuroscience, 20(6), p.864-871.  

  16. McCloud, Caddy, Jochim, Rendell, Diamond, Shuttleworth, Brett, Amit, McShane, Hamadi, Hawton, and Cipriani (2015). Ketamine and other glutamate receptor modulators for depression in bipolar disorder in adults (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2015, Issue 9. 

 

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