Jessica M. Van Loben Sels PhD, MPH

Jessica van Loben Sels joined the Guinea Worm Eradication Program in June 2024. Her scientific career includes conducting research on immunological responses to HSV-1 and norovirus infections, designing and deploying novel diagnostic platforms in a Vietnam field study, identifying and characterizing antibodies with therapeutic potential, supporting the NIH COVID-19 Task Force as an epidemiologist and data manager, and building public health laboratory infrastructure in resource-challenged settings, including the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of the CDC Laboratory Leadership Service.

Sels earned a Bachelor of Science in microbiology from the University of Kansas, a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from George Washington University, and a doctorate in pathology from the University of Cambridge as an NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholar.