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Kelsey Jesser is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington. With a background in microbiology, her research interests lie at the intersection of microbial ecology and public health. She employs bioinformatics and molecular biology tools to study the ecology and virulence traits of environmental human pathogens and their impacts on human health. Dr. Jesser's current research focuses on understanding the environmental distributions of human health impacts from enteric pathogens in Ecuador and Mozambique. Her projects include evaluating wet-market hygiene interventions aimed at reducing the transmission of zoonotic infections and antibiotic resistance genes in poultry products in Maputo, Mozambique. Additionally, she utilizes microbial source tracking to understand child exposures to human and animal sources of environmental fecal contamination in northern Ecuador. Dr. Jesser also evaluates environmental conditions, water access, sanitation, and hygiene's impact on infections, gut microbiome, and inflammatory immune markers in Ecuadorian children.
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