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Dr Jennifer Badham

Programme Lead for MDS (Health Data Science) and Core member of Durham Research Methods Centre 
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology
University student
Originally trained as a mathematician, I developed an interest in complex systems methods while working for government and private health organisations in Australia.
Dr Jennifer Badham
Programme Lead for MDS (Health Data Science) and Core member of DRMC
I am a computational social scientist and much of my research concerns how the transmission of ideas, disease or behaviour is shaped by social structure.  I am also interested in the sociology of computational methods, including how models are used in policy processes. Originally trained as a mathematician, I developed an interest in complex systems methods while working for government and private health organisations in Australia. I joined the Department of Sociology as an Assistant Professor in Social Data Science in 2021 following postdoctoral positions modelling health behaviour at University of Surrey, Queen's University Belfast, and Durham University. Within the Centre, I am Programme Lead for Master of Data Science (Health) and also teach the module Health Informatics and Clinical Intelligence.

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