Denise St. Jean is a Ph.D. candidate in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a first-generation American and dual-citizen of the small Caribbean island of Dominica. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Denise earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University. Outside of academia, she worked as an Associate at Beghou Consulting, a pharmaceutical consulting firm, where she evaluated pharmaceutical markets and provided data-driven solutions to assist in client decision-making. Denise is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar. Broadly, she is interested in evaluating interventions against infectious diseases in low-and-middle-income countries. Ultimately, she hopes that her research will inform better decision-making and health policies for infectious disease management in resource-limited settings.