Helen Jenkins
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Helen E. Jenkins, PhD

Associate Professor, Biostatistics - Boston University School of Public Health

Biography

Helen Jenkins was selected as a Rafik Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow beginning in Fall 2017. Helen has a M.Sc. in Biostatistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Ph.d. in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Imperial College, London. She is interested in novel ways to analyze data that can have a public health impact in the field of infectious diseases. In recent years, she has focused on tuberculosis including developing new estimates of pediatric TB incidence and mortality, and spatial methods to understand geographic heterogeneity of TB.

Education

  • Imperial College London, PhD Field of Study: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, MSc Field of Study: Medical Statistics
  • University of Birmingham, BSc Field of Study: Mathematics

Classes Taught

  • SPHBS825

Publications

  • Published on 4/1/2023

    Jenkins HE, Starke J. Revealing Gaps in Our Understanding of Finding Children With TB and Our Ability to Inform Policy. Pediatrics. 2023 Apr 01; 151(4). PMID: 36987807.

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  • Published on 4/1/2023

    Jenkins HE, Starke J. Revealing Gaps in Our Understanding of Finding Children With TB and Our Ability to Inform Policy. Pediatrics. 2023 Apr 01; 151(4). PMID: 36987807.

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  • Published on 2/15/2023

    Fofana AM, Moultrie H, Scott L, Jacobson KR, Shapiro AN, Dor G, Crankshaw B, Silva PD, Jenkins HE, Bor J, Stevens WS. Cross-municipality migration and spread of tuberculosis in South Africa. Sci Rep. 2023 Feb 15; 13(1):2674. PMID: 36792792.

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  • Published on 2/8/2023

    Horsburgh CR, Jo Y, Nichols B, Jenkins HE, Russell CA, White LF. Contribution of Reinfection to Annual Rate of Tuberculosis Infection (ARI) and Incidence of Tuberculosis Disease. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 08; 76(3):e965-e972. PMID: 35666515.

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  • Published on 1/1/2023

    Knudsen S, Babu SP, Ramakrishnan J, Jenkins HE, Joseph N, Cintron C, Narasimhan PB, Salgame P, Hochberg NS, Hom DL, Ellner J, Horsburgh CR, Sarkar S. M. tuberculosis infection before, during and after pregnancy. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2023 Jan 01; 27(1):72-74. PMID: 36853122.

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  • Published on 9/10/2022

    Khalife S, Jenkins HE, Dolynska M, Terleieva I, Varchenko I, Liu T, Carter EJ, Horsburgh CR, Rybak NR, Petrenko V, Chiang SS. Incidence and Mortality of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Ukraine: Analysis of National Surveillance Data. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Sep 10; 75(4):604-612. PMID: 34929028.

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  • Published on 8/18/2022

    Yuen CM, Brooks MB, Millones AK, Acosta D, Del Águila-Rojas E, Campos H, Farroñay S, Morales G, Ramirez-Sandoval J, Nichols TC, Jimenez J, Jenkins HE, Lecca L. Geospatial analysis of reported activity locations to identify sites for tuberculosis screening. Sci Rep. 2022 Aug 18; 12(1):14094. PMID: 35982104.

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  • Published on 7/18/2022

    Leavitt SV, Jenkins HE, Sebastiani P, Lee RS, Horsburgh CR, Tibbs AM, White LF. Estimation of the generation interval using pairwise relative transmission probabilities. Biostatistics. 2022 Jul 18; 23(3):807-824. PMID: 33527996.

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  • Published on 6/27/2022

    Sy KTL, Leavitt SV, de Vos M, Dolby T, Bor J, Horsburgh CR, Warren RM, Streicher EM, Jenkins HE, Jacobson KR. Spatial heterogeneity of extensively drug resistant-tuberculosis in Western Cape Province, South Africa. Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 27; 12(1):10844. PMID: 35760977.

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  • Published on 6/22/2022

    Kuzyk PV, Padilla R, Rybak NR, Hoshovska II, Kitov VO, Savchyna MO, Jenkins HE, Chiang SS, Horsburgh CR, Dolynska M, Petrenko V, Gychka SG. Missed Tuberculosis Diagnoses: Analysis of Pediatric Autopsy Data From General Hospitals in Lviv, Ukraine. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2022 Jun 22; 11(6):300-302. PMID: 35395086.

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