Janine Jagger (born 1950) is an American

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases. It is a cornerstone ...

, Becton Dickinson Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...

School of Medicine.

Life

She graduated from

Moravian College Moravian University is a private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The institution traces its history to girls' and boys' schools opened in 1742 by Moravians, descendants of followers of the Bohemian Reformation under John Amos Comenius. ...

with a Bachelor of Arts, ''cum laude'', in Psychology in 1972, and from the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The university is composed of seventeen undergraduate and graduate schools and colle ...

with a Master of Public Health in 1974, and from

with a Ph.D. in 1987. She has been devoted to reducing needle stick injuries.''While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention''
David Hemenway, University of California Press, 2009,

Awards

*2002

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...

Works

*''Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections'', Editor Richard P Wenzel, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth Edition (December 15, 2002), *''Preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens: articles from advances in exposures prevention, 1994-2003'', Editors Janine Jagger, Jane L. Perry, International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, University of Virginia, 2004,
"Progress in Preventing Sharps Injuries in the United States"
''Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety'', Second Edition, CRC Press, 2009,

References

1950 births Living people Moravian University alumni University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health alumni University of Virginia School of Medicine alumni University of Virginia School of Medicine faculty MacArthur Fellows American women epidemiologists American epidemiologists 21st-century American women {{Academic-bio-stub