About this Event
Housing interventions to improve maternal and child health in low-income countries: Epidemiology within a planetary health framework
October 28, 2024
Location: ALWAY BUILDING M112
In this Global Health Research Spotlight event, Dr. Jade Benjamin-Chung, PHD, MPH, will discuss her ongoing research on housing interventions to improve maternal and child health in low-income countries.
About the speaker:
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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
AlwayM112, Cooper Lane, Palo Alto, United States
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