Education

• B.A. : Case Western Reserve University , 1988-1992
• M.A. : Case Western Reserve University, 1992
• Ph.D. : Anthropology, UCLA, 1992-1995
• M.D.: Harvard Medical School, 1995-1999
• Internship & Residency: Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1998-2001
• Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals of Cleveland, 2002-2004

Clinical Interests

• TB
• HIV/AIDS

Research Interests

Multi-Drug Resistant TB, HIV/AIDS.

Selected References

• Furin, J. Improving technical assistance for drug-resistant tuberculosis. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2011; 15(3): 421-422.
• Furin, J. The Role of Traditional Healers in Community-Based HIV Care in Rural Lesotho. Journal of Community Health DOI: 10.1007/s10900-011-9385-3. 2011
• Furin, J. Blood Exposure at the 2010 FIFA World Cup: Time for Universal Application of Universal Precuations Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine: May 2011 - Volume 21 - Issue 3 - pp 264-265 doi: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e31821a643d
• Furin, J. Bayona, J., Becerra, M. et al. , Programmatic Management of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Models from Three Countries. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. PMID 21669029. DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.10.0591. 2011.
• Jennifer Furin, Medea Gegia, Carole Mitnick,et al. Eliminating the category II retreatment regimen from national tuberculosis programme guidelines: the Georgian experience Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Type: Lessons from the field Article ID: BLT.11.092320. 2011
• Medea Gegia, Iagor Kalandadze, Mikheil Madzgharashvili and Jennifer Furin Developing a human rights-based programfor tuberculosis control in Georgian prisons. Health and Human Rights, 13(2): 2011.
• Greg Jonsson, Jennifer Furin, Fatema Jeenah, et.al. Human rights, mental illness and HIV:The Luthando Neuropsychiatric HIV Clinic in Soweto, South Africa. Health and Human Rights 13(2): 2011
• Jennifer Furin, Mona Haidar, Nicolas Lesia et al. The Role of the Nurse in Implementation of an HIV Treatment Program in Rural Lesotho. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care (2011) PMID 21764607