The UNC COVID-19 Household Transmission Study

Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR is an assistant professor of medicine in UNC’s Division of Infectious Diseases. She trained in UNC’s ID fellowship at UNC and joined the faculty in 2013. Before COVID, she was pursuing clinical and translational studies on drug-resistant malaria and malaria transmission in Cambodia and Tanzania. In April 2020 she launched Co-HOST, a study of household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in North Carolina. She will be presenting preliminary data from the study.

Lin is a principal investigator in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab. She attends on the Medicine Infectious Disease service at UNC several times a year and maintains a weekly clinic.