Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Heather Henderson DVM MPH PhD is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She is an epidemiologist, data scientist, and veterinarian with a focus on emerging infectious diseases and One Health. Her background spans private veterinary practice and public health at local, state, and federal levels. She conducts cohort studies using electronic health record data to examine clinical outcomes of infection and their associations with treatments, comorbidities, and social determinants. Her current projects include predicting hospital admissions among people with HIV and evaluating geographic variability in bacterial antimicrobial resistance across North Carolina, with attention to social and environmental drivers. She aims to harness real-world data and advanced analytics to generate insights that inform both clinical care and public health interventions.