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...
Our health and nutrition work brings new understanding and action on health tackling epidemics, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic diseases. We generate new evidence and analysis on nutrition issues including dietary transition, globalisation of food systems, and responding to the ways that...
Climate disruption, environmental change and resource scarcity have become the subject of growing policy attention, academic debate and popular political mobilization in recent years. These issues are linked in political and media discourses to phenomena ranging from famine, migration,...
