{"id":1003,"date":"2018-06-27T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bccdcfound.wpengine.com\/whats-new\/board-advisor-spotlight-dr-jennifer-gardy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T22:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T22:44:43","slug":"board-advisor-spotlight-dr-jennifer-gardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificpublichealth.ca\/whats-new\/board-advisor-spotlight-dr-jennifer-gardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Advisor Spotlight: Dr. Jennifer Gardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BCCDC Foundation is indebted to its dedicated Board of Directors, and it&#8217;s Advisors. This week, we&#8217;d like to shine the spotlight on one of our advisors: Dr. Jennifer Gardy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bccdcfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gardy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-321\" src=\"https:\/\/bccdcfoundation.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gardy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gardy is a Senior Scientist\u00a0at the BC Centre for Disease Control, and an Associate Professor in SPPH at UBC, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Health Genomics and a Michael Smith Scholar award. She obtained her BSc in Cell Biology &amp; Genetics from UBC in 2000 and completed her PhD at Simon Fraser University in 2006 under Dr. Fiona Brinkman, working on bacterial genomics and bioinformatics-based predictive methods. She completed three years of postdoctoral training in the R.E.W. 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