Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biography

Megan Jehn's research interests include clinical epidemiology, health services research and emergency preparedness. An ongoing project is the development of a series of novel public health tabletop exercises for state, local and federal public health agencies to evaluate community mitigation strategies for pandemic influenza and improve coordination of preparedness plans. Previous work has focused on chronic disease epidemiology (clinical trials of diabetes and childhood obesity prevention), as well as infectious disease epidemiology (pandemic influenza prevention, transmission and risk perception).

Education

• PhD, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
• MHS, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, 2000
• BS, Biological Sciences, Arizona State University, 1997

Expertise

• clinical epidemiology
• health services
• emergency management
• public health
• decision making
• modeling and simulation
• Good Health and Well-Being