Janine Jagger

Janine Jagger (born c. 1950) is an American epidemiologist, Becton Dickinson Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases,[1] and director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.[2]

Janine Jagger
Bornc. 1950 (age 69–70)
Alma materMoravian College;
University of Pittsburgh;
University of Virginia
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program
Scientific career
Fieldsepidemiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia

Life

She graduated from Moravian College with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Psychology in 1972, and from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master of Public Health in 1974, and from University of Virginia with a Ph.D. in 1987. She has been devoted to reducing needle stick injuries.[3]

Awards

Works
  • Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections, Editor Richard P Wenzel, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth Edition (December 15, 2002), ISBN 978-0-7817-3512-4
  • Preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens: articles from advances in exposures prevention, 1994-2003, Editors Janine Jagger, Jane L. Perry, International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, University of Virginia, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9655899-1-8
  • "Progress in Preventing Sharps Injuries in the United States", Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4200-4785-1
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References
  1. http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/cgh/people/faculty/jaggerbio.cfm
  2. http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2002/27/jagger_janine.html
  3. While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention, David Hemenway, University of California Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-520-25845-7
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