| Jennifer Beam Dowd | |
|---|---|
 Jennifer Beam Dowd | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Washington and Lee University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | King's College London University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Socioeconomic status and health : testing the pathways (2004) |
| Website | JennDowd.com |
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Jennifer Beam Dowd is an American social scientist who is a Professor of Demography and Population Health and deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the social determinants of health and the relationship between infections and immune function. She is a member of Those Nerdy Girls, an all-woman team of public health researchers who are relaying COVID-19 information as part of Dear Pandemic.
Early life and education
Dowd studied political science and Spanish at Washington and Lee University, and graduated in 1996. After graduation she spent a year as a Henry Luce Scholar in East Java, Indonesia where she worked on agricultural and reproductive health at the Rural Development Foundation. Dowd completed her graduate studies in Demography and Economics at the School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, where she studied the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. In 2006 Dowd moved to the University of Michigan as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Scholar.
Research and career
Dowd started her independent scientific career at the City University of New York in the CUNY School of Public Health and CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, first as an assistant then an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2016, where she was made an associate professor at King's College London. In 2019 Dowd left King's College for the University of Oxford.
Her research considers the social factors that impact health, including how socioeconomic status influences the human microbiome and immune function. She has makes use of data from the TwinsUK and NYC Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES) studies; population-based cross-sectional surveys of public health.
During the COVID-19 pandemic Dowd joined Dear Pandemic, sharing public health information through an all-woman collective known as Nerdy Girls. Dowd looks to curate reliable and accurate information about the pandemic. The group engage in public health outreach on a variety of different platforms, including mainstream media outlets, on Facebook and on Instagram. By employing the same platforms and approaches as those who spread misinformation, the nerdy girls look to debunk myths and arm people with the knowledge to make informed decisions.
In 2020 Dowd was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant. Her research proposal looks to understand why life expectancy is no longer increasing in some parts of the world.
Selected publications
- Dowd, Jennifer Beam; Andriano, Liliana; Rotondi, Valentina; Brazel, David M.; Block, Per; Ding, Xuejie; Liu, Yan; Mills, Melinda C. (2020-03-18). "Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19". pp. 9696–9698. medRxiv 10.1101/2020.03.15.20036293v2.
- Simanek, Amanda M.; Dowd, Jennifer Beam; Pawelec, Graham; Melzer, David; Dutta, Ambarish; Aiello, Allison E. (2011-02-17). "Seropositivity to Cytomegalovirus, Inflammation, All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease-Related Mortality in the United States". PLOS ONE. 6 (2): e16103. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...616103S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016103. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3040745. PMID 21379581.
- Dowd, J. B.; Zajacova, A. (2007-10-30). "Does the predictive power of self-rated health for subsequent mortality risk vary by socioeconomic status in the US?". International Journal of Epidemiology. 36 (6): 1214–1221. doi:10.1093/ije/dym214. ISSN 0300-5771. PMID 17971388.
References
- Elliott, Barbara (2020-07-14). "Tracking Patterns in the Pandemic". The Columns. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- Dowd, Jennifer Beam (2004). Socioeconomic status and health: testing the pathways (Thesis). OCLC 56771324.
- ^ "Jennifer Dowd". www.sociology.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2021-01-19. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Jennifer Dowd - Biography - Research Portal, King's College, London". kclpure.kcl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2023-01-28. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Of Men and Microbes: Social Determinants of the Microbiome - Jenn Dowd, King's College, London | DUPRI". dupri.duke.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Jennifer Dowd". IAPHS - Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Event". Nuffield College Oxford University. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Those Nerdy Girls". Dear Pandemic. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ "'Nerdy Girls' fight the COVID infodemic with facts – and friendliness | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Nerdies in the News". Dear Pandemic. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Dear Pandemic". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Dear Pandemic". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "University of Oxford awarded major European Research Council funding | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. 9 December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "Jennifer Dowd awarded prestigious European Research Council Consolidator Grant". www.sociology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- "ERC Consolidator Grants for Eva Beaujouan, Jennifer Dowd, Alessia Melegaro and Raya Muttarak | Population Europe". population-europe.eu. Archived from the original on 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-22.