Rate My Professor Jennifer Summers

Dr Jennifer Summers is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Otago, Wellington, a position she assumed in 2020. She completed her PhD in Public Health at the University of Otago in 2013, with a thesis entitled 'The Burden and Risk Factors for Death from the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic amongst the New Zealand Military Forces of World War One'. She also holds a Diploma in the History of Medicine (DHMSA) from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, awarded in 2020 for her work 'An Overview of Vaccine use amongst the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces during World War One', alongside other qualifications including AKC, PGDPH, PGCAP, BSc, and professional accreditations such as CStat (Chartered Statistician from the Royal Statistical Society), FHEA, MRSNZ, and FRHistS. Before joining Otago, Summers worked as a Medical Statistician in the Division of Health and Social Care Research at King's College London. She is actively involved in supervising postgraduate students in Public Health and contributes to research units including the Health Environment & Infection Research Unit (HEIRU), the Co-Search team, and as an affiliate of the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost-Effectiveness Programme (BODE3).