Janine Jagger
Janine Jagger is an American epidemiologist, Becton Dickinson Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Life
She graduated from Moravian College with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Psychology in 1972, and from the University of Pittsburgh with a Master of Public Health in 1974, and from University of Virginia with a Ph.D. in 1987.She has been devoted to reducing needle stick injuries.
Awards
Works
- Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections, Editor Richard P Wenzel, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fourth Edition,
- Preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens: articles from advances in exposures prevention, 1994-2003, Editors Janine Jagger, Jane L. Perry, International Healthcare Worker Safety Center, University of Virginia, 2004,
- , Handbook of Modern Hospital Safety, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2009,