Dr. Jenness is an infectious disease epidemiologist specializing in mathematical and computational approaches for investigating the prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. He received his PhD from the University of Washington and his MPH from Boston University. His research interests are the integration of empirical epidemiology, mathematical modeling, and health economic frameworks to investigate critical questions in HIV and STI transmission. His research generally involves working on issues in the following scientific areas: HIV & STI epidemiology; Mathematical modeling of infectious disease; Social & contact network analysis; Causal inference methods for epidemiology; Survey research design and analysis; Computer science & computational epidemiology.