Jennifer Horney
Jennifer Horney is the director of the University of North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness and a research assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also manages the Spatial Health Assessment Research Program (SHARP), which provides technical assistance for public health programs interested in using geographic information systems.
Horney received her PhD and Master of Public Health from UNC, where her research focused on the role of social factors in decision making during disasters. She serves as a member of the Disaster Epidemiology Workgroup of the North Carolina Division of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Disaster Epidemiology Subcommittee.
Horney was a member of a team of public health practitioners who responded to Hurricanes Isabel, Charley, Katrina, Wilma, and Irene, where she used GIS to conduct rapid assessments of disaster impacts on the health of individuals and communities. She has also provided technical assistance to public health agencies in Southeast Asia and Central America around infectious disease outbreaks and pandemic influenza planning and response.
Workshop Abstracts
Public Health Preparedness Planning for Vulnerable and At-Risk Population
With Christine Bevc, Matthew Simon, Milissa Markiewicz, and Julie Casani
