Epidemiology Supervisor
Arkansas Department of Health
Jessica Turner, MPH,CRS is the Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Supervisor at the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). She has a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is also a certified research specialist and works in pediatric asthma research with UAMS and the Arkansas Children's Hospital. At the department of health, she helps coordinate and supervise the activities related to HAI prevention in congregate care settings. She oversees the HAI, Outbreak, Long term care/NHSN, and Fungal Disease Epidemiologists for the HAI program, while also overseeing the Syndromic Surveillance Epidemiologists.