Jennifer Bachner

Jennifer Bachner, PhD, serves as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Clinical Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. She was previously the Director of the Center for Data Analytics, Policy, and Government at Johns Hopkins University, and prior to that founded and directed the JHU Data Analytics and Policy Program.

Her areas of interest include evidence-based policymaking, analytics, government responsiveness and public opinion. She is the author of Warping Time: How Contending Political Forces Manipulate the Past, Present and Future (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Michigan University Press), America's State Governments: A Critical Look at Disconnected Democracies (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Routledge), What Washington Gets Wrong (with Benjamin Ginsberg, Penguin Random House) and editor of Analytics, Policy and Governance (with Kathryn Wagner Hill and Benjamin Ginsberg, Yale University Press).  Her reports, "Optimizing Analytics for Policymaking and Governance" and "Predictive Policing: Preventing Crime with Data and Analytics," have been published by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.  Her work on online learning has been published by the Journal of Political Science Education and PS: Political Science and Politics.  

Bachner received her doctorate in Government from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees in Government and Politics and Social Studies Education from the University of Maryland, College Park.