Jess is a Project Support Officer for the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) and supports a variety of projects across the Health and Nutrition and Resource Politics Clusters at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
Jess holds an MA in Gender, Violence and Conflict from the University of Sussex and a BA in International Development Studies and Social Anthropology from Dalhousie University.
This project seeks to develop new ways of thinking about the risk factors for bird flu (avian influenza), a disease which causes devastating losses for farmers and also has pandemic potential. Working in Bangladesh, Vietnam and UK, partners in the project will develop a transdisciplinary...
The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) is a network of researchers, policy makers and practitioners across 17 low- and middle-income countries focused on tackling chronic poverty and getting to zero extreme poverty and deprivation. It is hosted at the Institute of Development Studies. CPAN...