Jennifer L. Gardy

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Jennifer Gardy is the Canada Research Chair in Public Health Genomics at the University of British Columbia, and a Senior Scientist at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. Her lab uses pathogen genomics as a tool to address real-time pubic health issues in communicable disease control, with a particular focus on genomic epidemiology – using genomics to track individual pathogen transmission events and understand epidemic dynamics.

Bioinformatics Epidemiology Genomics Infectious Diseases Microbiology Public Health Virology

Past or current institution affiliations

University of British Columbia

Work details

Senior Scientist

BC Centre for Disease Control

June 2009

Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Services

Canada Research Chair, Public Health Genomics

University of British Columbia

March 2013

School of Population & Public Health

Websites

January 10, 2018

Evidence-based design and evaluation of a whole genome sequencing clinical report for the reference microbiology laboratory

Anamaria Crisan, Geoffrey McKee, Tamara Munzner, Jennifer L. Gardy

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4218 PubMed 29340235

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January 3, 2018

Translating genomics into practice for real-time surveillance and response to carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: evidence from a complex multi-institutional KPC outbreak

Jason C. Kwong, Courtney R. Lane, Finn Romanes, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Marion Easton, Katie Cronin, Mary Jo Waters, Takehiro Tomita, Kerrie Stevens, Mark B. Schultz, Sarah L. Baines, Norelle L. Sherry, Glen P. Carter, Andre Mu, Michelle Sait, Susan A. Ballard, Torsten Seemann, Timothy P. Stinear, Benjamin P. Howden

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4210 PubMed 29312831