CCEB Seminar- Jessie K. Edwards, PhD

"Exploring the Elevation in Mortality Among People Living with HIV" Jessie K. Edwards, PhD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY Dr. Jess Edwards is a research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on using quantitative epidemiologic methods to improve public health, particularly in the area of HIV. Substantively, she is interested in estimating effects of interventions along the HIV continuum of care using clinical data. Methodologically, she focuses on techniques for causal inference in settings with complex or high dimensional exposure plans, measurement error and missing data.