Jaime Anne Earnest

Contact Details

School of Education
College of Social Sciences
&
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
University of Glasgow
St. Andrew's Building
Room 683, 11 Eldon Street
Glasgow, G3 6NH

E-mail - j.earnest.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Tel - +44 (0) 777 178 4805

Academic History

Current:  Ph.D. Student by Research, Lord Kelvin/ Adam Smith Scholarship, University of Glasgow

2007-2009: Master of Public Health in Health Management and Policy, Drexel University School of Public Health,  Philadelphia, PA
2001-2006: B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Psychology (clinical) and Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2009-2010: Adjunct Faculty in Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Research Interests

I am currently working on a doctoral project Incorporating Public Responses to Health Communication into Epidemiological Models, which reflects my interest in multi-disciplinary and intra-disciplinary methodology and collaboration.  I am specifically interested in the social, cognitive, and emotional precursors of behavior change in individuals and populations in response to infectious diseases and communication about risk; and the effective integration of this sophisticated behavioral information into computational epidemiological models.

I am also interested in evidence-based public health intervention, program evaluation, mixed-model approaches in public health, and the development of evidence-based health policy which focuses on prevention. 

I take a social justice and human rights approach to my research, and have other interests in emergency management, preparedness, psychopathology, vulnerable and research-neglected populations, public health ethics, science and health communication, science and public health education, and history of public health.    I am supervised by Prof. Dan Haydon, Dr. Kate Reid, and Dr. Rebecca Mancy.

Scholarships & Awards

  • Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Scholarship at University of Glasgow, 2010-2014
  • Drexel University School of Public Health Summer Policy Fellow, 2008
  • Temple University Diamond Scholar's Peer Teacher Award, 2005
  • St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia, 2003-2004 Andrew Much Scholar at University of Aberdeen and NHS Grampian

Professional Memberships

  • British Psychological Society, Clinical Division, GBC, Student
  • Sense About Science/ Voice of Young Science Member Network
  • American Public Health Association, Student