Faculty

Jennifer Slyker

Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Associate Professor, Global Health

206-897-6696
jslyker@uw.edu

Education

PhD Immunology, Open University, 2007
MSc Biostatistics, Integrative Bioscience, Oxford University (UK), 1998
BA Biology, Colgate University, 1997

Contact

206-897-6696
jslyker@uw.edu

Harborview Medical Center
235 9th Avenue
Box 359931
Seattle, WA 98104

Research Areas

Research Interests

Herpes virus (EBV/CMV) co-infections in HIV-1 infected women and infants, T cell immunology, pediatric HIV testing.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

"When they are all grown, I will tell them": Experience and perceptions of parental self-disclosure of HIV status to children in Nairobi, Kenya.
(2023 Mar 17)
BMC Public Health 23(1): 519
Mugo C, Firdawsi O, Wang J, Njuguna IN, Wamalwa DC, Slyker JA, John-Stewart GC, O'Malley G, Wagner AD
Elevated binding and functional antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in infants versus mothers.
(2023 Feb 7)
bioRxiv
Stoddard CI, Sung K, Yaffe ZA, Weight H, Beaudoin-Bussières G, Galloway J, Gantt S, Adhiambo J, Begnel ER, Ojee E, Slyker J, Wamalwa D, Kinuthia J, Finzi A, Matsen FA, Lehman DA, Overbaugh J
Predictors of intact HIV DNA levels among children in Kenya.
(2023 Jan 31)
AIDS
Neary J, Fish CS, Cassidy NA, Wamalwa D, Langat A, Ngugi E, Benki-Nugent S, Moraa H, Richardson BA, Njuguna I, Slyker JA, Lehman DA, John-Stewart G
HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infection in postpartum Kenyan women and their infants.
(2023)
PLoS One 18(1): e0278675
Begnel ER, Chohan BH, Ojee E, Adhiambo J, Owiti P, Ogweno V, Holland LA, Fish CS, Richardson BA, Khan AK, Maqsood R, Lim ES, Sadarangani M, Lehman DA, Slyker J, Kinuthia J, Wamalwa D, Gantt S
Comparison of nucleocapsid and spike antibody ELISAs for determining SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in Kenyan women and infants.
(2023 Jan)
J Med Virol 95(1): e28221
Fish CS, Owiti P, Begnel ER, Itell HL, Ojee E, Adhiambo J, Ogweno V, Holland LA, Richardson BA, Khan AK, Maqsood R, Gantt S, Lim ES, Slyker J, Kinuthia J, Overbaugh J, Wamalwa D, Lehman DA, Chohan BH
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