Rate My Professor Jessie Edwards

Edwards has served as Principal Investigator on multiple National Institutes of Health grants, including R01 AI125087 (2016-2021) on the comparative effectiveness of tailored HIV treatment plans and mortality, R01 GM140564 (2021-2025) merging machine learning and mechanistic models for emerging epidemics, and earlier UNC CFAR awards. She is Co-Principal Investigator on R01 AI157758 (2020-2025) for improved analyses in HIV studies. Notable publications include "Mortality among people entering HIV care compared to the general US population: an observational study" (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2021), "Association of Race and Ethnicity With Initial Prescription of Antiretroviral Therapy Among People With HIV in the US" (JAMA, 2023), "Nonparametric estimation of the cumulative incidence function under outcome misclassification using external validation data" (Statistics in Medicine, 2019), "Geographic mobility and treatment outcomes among people in care for tuberculosis in the Lake Victoria region of East Africa" (PLOS Global Public Health, 2023), and "Estimating sizes of key populations at the national level: considerations for study design and analysis" (Epidemiology, 2018). Her honors include Reviewer of the Year, American Journal of Epidemiology (2015), Berton H. Kaplan Student Publication Award (2013), Sidney Kark Award for Distinguished Teaching Assistant (2013), Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society (2013), and Society for Epidemiologic Research Student Poster Award (2012). Edwards' contributions enhance methodological rigor in epidemiology, influencing HIV research and public health policy through rigorous analyses and funding successes.