Jessie Pinchoff

Pinchoff leads the Population Council’s Population, Environmental Risks and the Climate Crisis (PERCC Initiative) guiding work across the Council’s fourteen international offices to examine critical intersections between climate and health, gender, and adolescent education and livelihoods. Her background is in environmental health and spatial epidemiology, she uses satellite derived and remotely sensed climate data integrated with surveys to better understand how climate and environmental characteristics impact health outcomes with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, infectious disease, and maternal child health.  She lived in Zambia for two years, and has worked in various settings including India, Kenya and Guatemala.

She received her PhD in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her MPH in Epidemiology from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.