Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Head is a doctoral candidate and Berkeley biomedical big data fellow specializing in epidemiology. She has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and an Master's of Public Health in Global Environmental Health from Emory University. Her research seeks to understand disease transmission at the human-animal-environment interface, by integrating causal inference and targeted learning methodology with surveillance data. She is currently working with California Department of Public Health on characterizing the environmental drivers of coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in California.
Sep 30, 2024 02:15 am UTC| Health
As the climate warms, the southwestern U.S. is increasingly experiencing weather whiplash as the region swings from drought to flooding and back again. As a result, the public is hearing more about little-known infectious...