Jennifer Dowd

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Professor of Demography and Population Health, University of Oxford.

Social Determinants of Health | Mortality | Biosocial Science | Infections/Immunity | COVID-19. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. Doing #SciComm with Those Nerdy Girls.

Other things I like are mountains, lifting heavy stuff, and country music (especially the King #GeorgeStrait).

Faculty Websitehttps://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/jennifer-dowd
Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=WfwqMbIAAAAJ
Those Nerdy Girlshttps://dearpandemic.org/
Personal Websitehttps://www.jenndowd.com
Jennifer DowdJan 11, 2023
pengzell.bsky.socialJan 10, 2023

Two Oxford postdoc positions in Computational Social Science studying the impact of digital technologies on women's opportunities in low- and middle-income countries. Great team, led by the amazing Ridhi Kashyap.

Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=162871

Postdoctoral Fellow
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=162708

Job Details

Jennifer DowdJan 11, 2023
Francesco RampazzoJan 11, 2023

RT @[email protected]

🚨Job alert 🚨2 great opportunities to work with @[email protected] @[email protected] on the impacts of digital expansion on gender equality & women’s social & economic opportunities. Apply by 31/1.
postdoc fellow: https://tinyurl.com/mr2vwres
senior postdoc fellow: https://tinyurl.com/d8sfhvrs

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cwsmonden/status/1613127234859974657

Job Details

Jennifer DowdJan 10, 2023
Dean EcklesJan 10, 2023

Giving people accurate info about others' vaccine acceptance increases their own intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Evidence from an experiment in 23 counties with >400k subjects.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35052-4

Providing normative information increases intentions to accept a COVID-19 vaccine - Nature Communications

The authors show that accurate information about descriptive norms can increase intentions to accept a vaccine for COVID-19. They show that these effects are largely consistent in the 23 included countries and are concentrated among people who were otherwise uncertain about accepting a vaccine.

Nature
Jennifer DowdJan 5, 2023
UCL Sociology NetworkJan 5, 2023
RT @UKRI_News
Pre-announcement: opportunity to lead a research cluster that will form part of a new interdisciplinary network to address population health challenges and improve the health of communities across the UK. Join our webinar on 27 January to find out more⏩https://orlo.uk/SIRg4
Population health improvement network of clusters webinar

UK Research and Innovation seeks to establish a new high profile, national interdisciplinary research network which will explore novel ways to transform health through change at the population level across the UK.

Jennifer DowdDec 22, 2022

Some practical tips from Those Nerdy Girls for staying safe during the holidays.

Prevention still matters...don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good!

https://dearpandemic.org/safe-holidays/

#epidemiology #epiverse #publichealth #covid19

How can I stay safe during the holidays?

Think in terms of harm reduction. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Just in time for Christmas, COVID is again on the rise. Flu and RSV may

Dear Pandemic
Jennifer DowdDec 19, 2022
Andrea TilstraDec 19, 2022
#introduction time!
I look at the health consequences of period shocks (e.g., public health crises) & how these shocks exacerbate or equalize existing health inequalities. I’m interested in #mortality, #fertility, and #birthoutcomes.
Currently work as a #postdoc on Jenn Dowd's ERC grant (MORTAL) and in Sept 2023 will start my Marie Curie Fellowship on HealthShocks (Population Health & Period Shocks)! Both w/ the excellent team at the #LCDS at Oxford.
#demography #sociology #healthdisparities
Show threadJennifer DowdDec 19, 2022
@ikashnitsky Still learning the ropes but feel like a kid happy to finally arrive at the party!
Jennifer DowdDec 18, 2022
Ed HillDec 15, 2022

Since October 2022, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), University of Oxford & UKHSA have been conducting a pilot study to determine whether their COVID-19 Infection Survey could be used to monitor other respiratory infections (e.g. #influenza & #RSV) in the private residential population.

An ONS post explains:
▶️ why the pilot was initiated
▶️ explores the focus of the analysis
▶️ shares plans for publishing the data

https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2022/12/15/the-bigger-picture-using-the-covid-infection-survey-to-track-other-infections/

#epidemiology #EpiVerse @epiverse #PublicHealth

The Bigger Picture: Using the COVID-19 Infection Survey to track other infections | National Statistical

Jennifer DowdDec 18, 2022

#Introduction I hope to understand why some individuals & populations live longer & healthier lives than others.

I like to bridge disciplines- I've trained in #demography, #economics & #epidemiology, & now sit in a Dept. of #sociology. I'm interested in incoroporating #biomarkers into social & population research, especially markers of #immunity #infection, & #microbiome.

I was drafted into #scicomm during #covid19 w/ Dear Pandemic/Those Nerdy Girls.

Happy to be here!
https://www.jenndowd.com/

Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD

Demographer, Epidemiologist, Nerdy Girl, COVID-19 Researcher. Associate Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford

Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD