Demetrice "Dee" Jordan

Dr. Jordan is a Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has a dual-doctorate in Geography and Environmental Science and Policy from Michigan State University, becoming the first student in the department to receive a dual-PhD. Dee’s research focuses on the ecological and environmental determinants of disease risk for vector-borne parasitic illnesses, infectious diseases, and Neglected Tropical Diseases of sub-Saharan Africa. She is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant and has developed innovative programs and curricula to promote the principles of DEI in academic and non-profit settings. Dr. Jordan is the Founder of the Advancing Geography Through Diversity Program (AGTDP) at Michigan State University, which seeks to address the persistent underrepresentation of African American, Latinx American, and Native American graduate students in the discipline of Geography, the program has already graduated several master’s and Doctoral recipients. She Co-Created and Co-Facilitated the first DEI Responsible Conduct for Research (RCR) curriculum for Harvard Medical School’s Postdoctoral trainees titled, Resiliency and Inclusion in Academic Research. Dr. Jordan has received a number of awards for her scholarship and activism including the American Association of Geographers Enhancing Diversity Award in 2020, becoming the first graduate student to receive the honor. She received an NIH Loan Repayment award from the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Fellow. She is an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Fellow at Harvard Chan School of Public Health, where she is a candidate for a Master of Public Health in Global Health. She is a proud member of the National Council of Negro Women and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Dr. Jordan is a Councilmember of the American Geographical Society (AGS) and the Creator of the Celebrating Black Geographers Anthology hosted online by AGS.