Janey Messina
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Ph.D. Student Janey on top of the "La Soufriere" volcano in Guadeloupe |
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Research
My primary research interests are in the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial statistics to study how location affects the health of human populations. I am specifically interested in population and environmental drivers related to the spread and persistence of illness from infectious and vector-borne diseases in developing countries. My doctoral work will likely be focused on measuring the distributions of malaria and African sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and modeling environmental and population-based determinants of these distributions.
Education
M.S., Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
B.A., Geography, University of California at Los Angeles, 2005
Funding
UNC-Chapel Hill Graduate School Doctoral Merit Assistantship, 2008-2009
