Assistant Professor, Epidemiology - School of Public Health
About
Prior to returning to U-M, Jon completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Dept. of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health (2016), was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University (2014-16), and was an NIH Research and Policy for Infection Disease Dynamic
Jon Zelner is a social epidemiologist focused on understanding and targeting the joint social and biological drivers of infectious disease risk. His work blends theory and methods from sociology and epidemiology, with an emphasis on the development and use of novel computational and statistical methods for integrating social and biological data.
During most of 2020 and 2021, Jon has focused most of his research around the Coronavirus pandemic.
See his SPH profile page for more information.s (RAPIDD) postdoctoral fellow in the Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University (2011-2014).
