Jennifer Horney is a professor and founding director of the epidemiology program and core faculty at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on the health impacts of disasters. She received her PhD in epidemiology and a master of public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Horney is currently a member of the National Academies of Science’s Gulf Research Program Enhancing Community Resilience committee and the Center for Disease Control’s Technical Workgroup on Improving Processes for Identifying and Reporting Disaster-Related Deaths.
Horney has led interdisciplinary research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Academies, Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies. She was part of the public health responses to Hurricanes Isabel, Charley, Katrina, Wilma, Irene, and Harvey, where she conducted rapid assessments of disaster impacts on individual and community health. She has also provided technical assistance to public health agencies globally around disasters, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and pandemic influenza planning and response.