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Jennifer Dowd is a Professor at the University of Oxford in the Medical Sciences Division, where she serves as the Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. Her research focuses on the interplay between social and biological processes throughout the life course, especially concerning how factors such as socioeconomic status affect health, immune function, and disease risk. Dowd's work has explored the links between chronic diseases and aging, and she is currently a Principal Investigator on the ERC Consolidator Project MORTAL, which aims to understand the social determinants of the human microbiome and the causes behind the stagnation of life expectancy in the UK. Additionally, she examines the population mortality impacts of COVID-19 and contributes to interpreting and curating COVID-19 science for the public as part of an all-female team of health scientists called 'Those Nerdy Girls.' She received her PhD in Demography and Economics from Princeton University and completed postdoctoral training in Epidemiology at the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars program at the University of Michigan.
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