August 5
Sustainable housing interventions to reduce environmentally-transmitted infections in low-income countries
Jade Benjamin-Chung, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. Her group conducts research to identify interventions to control, eliminate, or eradicate environmentally-transmitted infectious diseases, including malaria, diarrhea, soil-transmitted helminths, and influenza. Her research uses a variety of epidemiologic, computational, and statistical methods, including causal inference and machine learning methods and focuses on vulnerable populations in low-resource settings, both domestically and internationally. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology and M.A. in Biostatistics from UC Berkeley.