Jess Edwards

Jess Edwards is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on developing and applying quantitative epidemiologic methods to improve decision making in public health settings with imperfect data. Her substantive work is centered around estimating the effects of interventions on the continuum of HIV medical care using observational data. Methodologically, she focuses on developing methods to account for measurement error in causal inference, as well as applying novel approaches for estimating the effects of interventions in complex longitudinal settings.