Jennifer Head

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.