Biography
Jennifer Ross, MD, MPH is Acting Instructor/Senior Fellow in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on modeling approaches to reduce morbidity and mortality from other pathogens in persons with HIV infection. At IHME, she works with the Geospatial Analysis research team to develop models for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/TB co-infection. Prior to joining IHME in 2017, she was a National Institutes of Health Fogarty Global Health Research Fellow investigating relationships between scale-up of HIV care and malaria burden in Uganda and Kenya.
Dr. Ross studied for her bachelor’s degree in Genetics and Cell Biology at Dartmouth College, and medical and public health degrees at Oregon Health and Science University. She completed clinical training at the University of California, San Francisco (Internal Medicine) and the University of Washington (Infectious Diseases). She also serves as an attending physician at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007. Its mission is to improve health through better health evidence.