Jessica F. Brinkworth, PhD
Collaborator
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Evolutionary Immunologist
Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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About
Dr. Jessica F. Brinkworth's research program revolves around the basic question, “why do we get sick?” Her team focuses on severe infections and sepsis and investigates the role of evolutionary and social environments in infection susceptibility and progression using in vitro cell-based models, bacterial infection, surveys, and interview methods. In her prior career, Dr. Brinkworth was a policy analyst in health risk management and, later, biologic drug regulation for Health Canada.