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
- 2010 - Imperial College London, PhD Field of Study: Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- 2005 - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, MSc Field of Study: Medical Statistics
- 1999 - University of Birmingham, BSc Field of Study: Mathematics
Websites
Publications
- Published on 2/2/2021
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. 2021 Feb 02. PMID: 33527996.
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- Published on 12/17/2020
Kan CK, Ragan EJ, Sarkar S, Knudsen S, Forsyth M, Muthuraj M, Vinod K, Jenkins HE, Horsburgh CR, Salgame P, Roy G, Ellner JJ, Jacobson KR, Sahu S, Hochberg NS. Alcohol use and tuberculosis clinical presentation at the time of diagnosis in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India. PLoS One. 2020; 15(12):e0240595. PMID: 33332367.
Read At: PubMed
- Published on 11/2/2020
Ma Y, Jenkins HE, Sebastiani P, Ellner JJ, Jones-López EC, Dietze R, Horsburgh CR, White LF. Using Cure Models to Estimate the Serial Interval of Tuberculosis With Limited Follow-up. Am J Epidemiol. 2020 11 02; 189(11):1421-1426. PMID: 32458995.
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- Published on 10/16/2020
Benedum CM, Shea KM, Jenkins HE, Kim LY, Markuzon N. Weekly dengue forecasts in Iquitos, Peru; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Singapore. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 10; 14(10):e0008710. PMID: 33064770.
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- Published on 9/14/2020
Chiang SS, Dolynska M, Rybak NR, Cruz AT, Aibana O, Sheremeta Y, Petrenko V, Mamotenko A, Terleieva I, Horsburgh CR, Jenkins HE. Clinical manifestations and epidemiology of adolescent tuberculosis in Ukraine. ERJ Open Res. 2020 Jul; 6(3). PMID: 32964003.
Read At: PubMed
- Published on 9/1/2020
Zhou TJ, Lakshminarayanan S, Sarkar S, Knudsen S, Horsburgh CR, Muthaiah M, Kan CK, Salgame P, Ellner JJ, Roy G, Jenkins HE, Hochberg NS. Predictors of Loss to Follow-Up among Men with Tuberculosis in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, India. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020 09; 103(3):1050-1056. PMID: 32618243.
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- Published on 6/1/2020
Leavitt SV, Lee RS, Sebastiani P, Horsburgh CR, Jenkins HE, White LF. Estimating the relative probability of direct transmission between infectious disease patients. Int J Epidemiol. 2020 06 01; 49(3):764-775. PMID: 32211747.
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- Published on 5/25/2020
Chiang SS, Brooks MB, Jenkins HE, Rubenstein D, Seddon JA, van de Water BJ, Lindeborg MM, Becerra MC, Yuen CM. Concordance of drug resistance profiles between persons with drug-resistant tuberculosis and their household contacts: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 May 25. PMID: 32448887.
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- Published on 10/22/2019
McIntosh AI, Jenkins HE, Horsburgh CR, Jones-López EC, Whalen CC, Gaeddert M, Marques-Rodrigues P, Ellner JJ, Dietze R, White LF. Partitioning the risk of tuberculosis transmission in household contact studies. PLoS One. 2019; 14(10):e0223966. PMID: 31639145.
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- Published on 7/4/2019
Garcia-Basteiro AL, Jenkins HE, Rangaka M. The burden of latent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 08; 19(8):802-803. PMID: 31281060.
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News & In the Media
- Published on February 25, 2021
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Published on February 22, 2021
Doctor Says CDC School Guidelines Defy Science and Could Harm Kids
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Published on February 19, 2021
CDC’s New COVID School Guidelines Are Scientifically Flawed and Our Kids Will Pay the Price
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Published on February 18, 2021
New CDC Guidance Ends up Deepening Debate over Reopening Schools
- Published on February 18, 2021
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Published on February 17, 2021
Public Health Experts at Harvard, BU Weigh-in on CDC School Reopening Guidelines
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Published on February 16, 2021
The CDC’s Latest Demands Will Keep Millions of Kids Out of School Unnecessarily
- Published on February 16, 2021
- Published on January 25, 2021
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Published on January 22, 2021
As America Engages with WHO Again, an Overwhelming Sense of Relief and Hope
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Published on January 19, 2021
Will the New Coronavirus Strain Put U.S. Schools at Increased Risk for Closure?
- Published on January 15, 2021
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Published on January 13, 2021
With England in Lockdown 3, It’s Time Ministers Got It Right on Face Masks
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Published on December 23, 2020
School Committee Considering Three Changes Around COVID-19 Response, In-Person Classes
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Published on December 8, 2020
With Few COVID-19 Restrictions, Personal Responsibility Takes Center Stage in the Pandemic Response
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Published on November 25, 2020
‘The End Is in Sight’: Experts Express Optimism About COVID-19 Pandemic Coming to a Close
- Published on November 25, 2020
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Published on November 25, 2020
Looking at COVID-19 Data From County and State Moves Schools Toward End of In-Person Learning
- Published on November 24, 2020
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Published on November 24, 2020
Are Gov. Baker’s Latest Coronavirus Restrictions Likely to Make a Difference?
- Published on September 14, 2020
- Published on September 2, 2020
- Published on August 20, 2020
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Published on August 14, 2020
Hybrid Schooling Could Be a Public Health Disaster, Some Doctors Warn
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Published on August 11, 2020
School Districts Aim to Aid At-Risk Students With Remote Learning Increasingly Likely This Fall
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Published on July 31, 2020
BPS Nurses, Teachers, Bus Drivers Rally Against Reopening Schools Without Proper Safety Measures
- Published on July 29, 2020
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Published on July 22, 2020
What Is It That Keeps Most Little Kids From Getting COVID-19?
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Published on July 20, 2020
Ten Coronavirus Deaths Reported in Wake County over One Weekend
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Published on July 17, 2020
Vote for How to Reopen Schools Set for Tuesday, But Educators Have Doubts on Proposal Models
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Published on July 10, 2020
Coronavirus Cases Show No Sign of Slowing in Worst-Hit U.S., Brazil and India
- Published on July 10, 2020
- Published on July 10, 2020
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Published on July 10, 2020
Schools or Bars? Opening Classrooms May Mean Hard Choices Amid Pandemic
- Published on July 9, 2020
- Published on July 6, 2020
- Published on July 6, 2020
- Published on July 6, 2020
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Published on July 6, 2020
Boston Epidemiologists: We Can Reopen Schools in the Fall—If Country Closes Bars and Gyms Now
- Published on July 2, 2020
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Published on July 2, 2020
No One Wants to Go Back to Lockdown. Is There a Middle Ground for Containing COVID-19?
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Published on July 1, 2020
We Can Reopen Schools in the Fall—If We Close Bars and Gyms Now
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Published on June 29, 2020
There Is a Way to Reopen Schools This Fall. Do We Have the Will to Make It Happen?
- Published on June 26, 2020
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Published on June 24, 2020
This Is Far from Over: Why We Need to Learn to Live with COVID-19
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Published on June 16, 2020
Coronavirus Deaths Set to Spike in Coming Weeks Following Surge in Post-Lockdown Cases, Experts Warn
- Published on June 11, 2020
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Published on June 8, 2020
PolitiFact: How Helpful Can Herd Immunity Be in Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic?
- Published on June 8, 2020
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Published on June 8, 2020
What Does the New Data Tell Us about Recovered COVID Patients?
- Published on June 8, 2020
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Published on June 8, 2020
What Does the New Data about Recovered COVID Patients Tell Us?
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Published on June 4, 2020
How Helpful Can Herd Immunity Be in Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic?
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Published on May 26, 2020
With Reopening Comes the Threat of a Second Wave of COVID-19, Scientists Warn
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Published on May 19, 2020
Scientists Say Baker’s Reopening Plan Is Sensible, but Still Concerning
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Published on May 19, 2020
Scientists Say Baker’s Reopening Plan Is Sensible, but Still Concerning
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Published on May 18, 2020
Women in Science Are Battling Both COVID-19 and the Patriarchy
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Published on May 15, 2020
Disease Modelers Are Wary of Reopening the Country. Here’s How They Arrive at Their Verdict.
- Published on May 14, 2020
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Published on May 14, 2020
Saving Lives or Saving the Economy? Reopening Doesn’t Have to Be an All-Or-Nothing Proposition
- Published on May 12, 2020
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Published on May 11, 2020
Epidemiological Models: 10 Things Journalists Covering Coronavirus Research Should Know
- Published on May 4, 2020
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Published on April 29, 2020
Sweden, Mostly Open, Has Higher COVID-19 Death Rate Than Denmark
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Published on April 22, 2020
Social Distancing Is Working, but When Will Things Return to Normal, and What Will That Look Like?
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Published on April 22, 2020
The Tricky Thing about Predicting Coronavirus and Climate Change: Human Behavior
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Published on April 16, 2020
Virus Models Predict Possible Outcomes. We Can Fight to Stop the Worst Ones.
- Published on April 9, 2020
- Published on April 7, 2020
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Published on April 7, 2020
The Problem with Using ‘Patient Zero’ and ‘Party Zero’ in Coronavirus News
- Published on April 6, 2020
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Published on April 1, 2020
Mass. Coronavirus Peak Likely in Mid-April, Some Epidemiologists Predict
- Published on March 31, 2020
- Published on March 20, 2020
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Published on March 17, 2020
The British Government’s Response to the Coronavirus Has Been a Disaster
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Published on September 12, 2018
Identifying Drug-Resistant Hotspots Can Provide Roadmap to Reduce Tuberculosis
- Published on October 25, 2017
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Published on January 17, 2017
High Risk of Death Found in Children with Undiagnosed Tuberculosis