Jennifer Gardy
Jennifer's research is in the field of communicable disease genomic epidemiology. She and her team uses whole-genome sequencing of bacterial and viral pathogens to understand outbreak and epidemic dynamics. Much of her work focuses on tuberculosis and she has a particular interest in using genomics and data science tools for improving tuberculosis service delivery in British Columbia. Jennifer is a Canada Research Char in Public Health Genomics and a Senior Scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control.
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