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Jennifer Horney is a Professor and Founding Director of the Epidemiology Program at the University of Delaware’s College of Health Sciences. She also serves as Core Faculty at the Disaster Research Center and holds leadership roles on national committees like the CDC’s Board of Scientific Counselors for Public Health Preparedness and the National Academies Gulf Research Program. Her expertise lies in measuring disaster impacts on public health, with a focus on pandemic preparedness, natural disaster response, and community resilience.
Education: PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2009). Research interests include applied epidemiology, disaster epidemiology, rapid assessment methods, and outbreak investigation. She has led interdisciplinary projects funded by federal agencies and contributed to public health responses to hurricanes including Harvey, Katrina, and Irene.
Key contributions include global technical assistance on disaster planning, pandemic influenza response, and emerging infectious diseases. Her work emphasizes linking disaster preparedness to community actions, with recent focus on vaccine hesitancy, domestic violence service adaptations during crises, and opioid treatment program resilience in flood-prone areas.
Professional affiliations include NORC/CDC Technical Workgroup on Disaster-Related Deaths, American Public Health Association Publications Board, and the National Academies’ EnCoRe committee. She has advised on health policy for agencies worldwide and pioneered rapid response methodologies for disease outbreaks.
