Demetrice Jordan, PhD, MPH, MA

Demetrice “Dee” Jordan is an Instructor and DICP Faculty Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. She holds a dual-PhD in Health Geography and Environmental Science and Policy from Michigan State University (MSU), a Master of Public Health in Global Health and graduate certificate in Global Infectious Diseases from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dee’s research focuses on the spatial-ecological determinants of disease risk for vector-borne parasitic diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases of sub-Saharan Africa and the tropics and the role of climate change in emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. Dee also examines issues related to global health equity, U.S. health disparities, social and environmental justice and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand disease diffusion dynamics. Recently, Dee expanded her research area to include wastewater-based environmental surveillance and genomics.

She is a Trustee for the Society of Public Health Education (SOPHE), a member of Oak Ridge National Lab’s Geospatial Science and Human Security Division’s Scientific Advisory Committee, a Councilor for the American Geographical Society (AGS) and member of the Executive Committee, the creator of the Celebrating Black Geographers anthology, hosted online by AGS and a member of the Professional Geographer Editorial Board.

Dee is the recipient of numerous awards including an Equity, Social Justice and Advocacy award from the Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnerships at Harvard Medical School, a Burke Global Health Fellowship at the Harvard Global Health Institute, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Fellowship, a Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, a NIH Loan Repayment Program award for health disparities research from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and in 2020, Dee became the first graduate student recipient of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Enhancing Diversity Award.

She has developed innovative programs and curricula to promote the access and opportunity in academic, industrial, and non-profit settings including the co-development of Harvard Medical School’s Responsible Conduct for Research (RCR) module titled Resilience and Inclusion in Academic Research. Dee has served as an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also the Founder of Advancing Geography through Education Opportunities (A-GEO), a cohort-based recruitment and retention program designed to improve access and opportunity for communities facing barriers to geography graduate education through fully funded education and mentorship opportunities. Dee is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and CEO of Bella Academic Consulting, LLC.