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Jessica M. Sautter, PhD

Associate Professor

Jessica Sautter

Department

Office

Post 114

Phone

610-660-1679
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Dr. Sautter applies social science to her teaching, advising, and leadership at SJU. She teaches Inequality in American Society, Health & Society, and Social Epidemiology in the Cornerstone Core Curriculum. Within the Sociology and Criminal Justice majors, she teaches Statistics for Social Sciences and IDEAL Leadership and Purpose. 

In 2025, Dr. Sautter won a SJU Faculty Merit Award for advising after serving as a Faculty Advising Fellow for students in the School of Health Professions. During her 10 years at University of the Sciences, Dr. Sautter won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Homiller Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty Special Achievement Award, and Greek Advisor of the Year Award.

Dr. Sautter serves as the Chair of the College of Arts & Sciences Committee on Assessment and Planning, and as co-Chair of The Alliance. She is a regular presenter at SJU’s Day of Dialogue, serves as a mentor for a variety of student populations, and is a regular poll worker for the Burlington County Board of Elections. 

    • BA in Sociology & Psychology, The College of New Jersey
    • MA in Sociology, Duke University
    • PhD in Sociology, Duke University
    1. Sautter, JM., JA Henstenburg, AG Crafford, I Rowe-Nicholls, VS Diaz, KA Bartholomew, MR Johnson, J Zhou, & D Ajeya. 2024. Health outcomes reported by healthcare providers and clients of a community-based medically tailored meal program. BMC Nutrition 10:147 DOI
    2. Nguyen, J, C McNaughton, & JM Sautter. 2022. Documenting limited health literacy in a clinical setting. PEC Innovation 1 DOI
    3. Boucher, NA., E Dries, A Franzione, AM. Burton-Chase, D Morris, & JM Sautter. 2022. Developing the future end-of-life health care workforce: Lessons learned from a survey of advanced health professions students. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 39(6):613-618. DOI
    4. Sautter, JM. 2020. Aging and Health Disparities in Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging Edited by D Gu and M Dupre. DOI

  • Dr. Sautter collaborates with The MANNA Institute to advance the science of food as medicine and build capacity for community-based organizations to conduct research. They use organizational records, client surveys, and health information networks to measure key outcomes and identify trends in client needs. 

    Dr. Sautter also works with Health Educated Inc and Health Care Solutions of the Delaware Valley as an assessment consultant. She creates measures of inclusion and belonging and analyzes longitudinal data to determine whether programs meet their objectives. 

    Dr. Sautter frequently mentors student research through the SJU Summer Scholars Program and the Honors Program.