Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington,
MPH Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University,
BA History, Philosophy, St. Johns College,

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Jessie Seiler (she/her) works at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, where she helps identify the most popular and pernicious health and nutrition-related misinformation trends on social and traditional media, including fad diets, pseudoscience, and unsupported health claims. She also assists in developing campaigns to counter this misinformation. Jessie is also a social epidemiologist with an MPH in behavioral sciences and health education from Emory's Rollins School of Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Washington. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer and later worked with the United States Agency for International Development in Senegal. She has worked for both domestic and international public health non-profits, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jessie has taught and mentored students in the Department of Epidemiology, the Public Health-Global Health Major, and the Comparative History of Ideas Department. She in interested in mixed methods research and social epidemiology.