CIGH GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

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.

Host or Publisher Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health