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Jennifer Head

Jennifer Head

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.

Fungal infections known as valley fever could spike this fall - 3 epidemiologists explain how to protect yourself

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...

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Economy

Austria's Far-Right Election Win Sparks European Right-Wing Celebration

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Israel Expands Strikes in Yemen and Lebanon Amid Regional Tensions

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AUDUSD and Chinese PMI data

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Politics

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Science

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Apple has reportedly pulled out of negotiations to join OpenAIs $6.5 billion funding round, according to The Wall Street Journal. The decision leaves Microsoft and Nvidia as potential key investors in OpenAI, which is...
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