About

Jordan Bryan is an assistant professor of Data Science at the UVA School of Data Science. He is a statistician with broad expertise in multivariate data analysis, having studied and developed statistical methods in environmental monitoring, high-energy physics, and cancer genomics. His research interests include Bayesian statistics, robust estimation, and information-assisted hypothesis testing. Prior to joining UVA, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, supported by training grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). He also worked as an associate computational biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. As of January 2024, he serves as the Secretary of the junior section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University in 2023.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Medicine
• Biology
• Engineering
• Environmental engineering
• Toxicology
• Geography
• Internal medicine
• Demography
• Environmental science
• Environmental health
• Law
• Chemistry
• Waste management
• Economy
• Pediatrics
• Archaeology
• Economics

Selected publications

• Burden of Diarrhoeagenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> in Santa Rosa, Guatemala in active health‐services surveillance during 2008–2009 and 2014–2015

  Tropical Medicine & International Health · 2022 · 4 citations

  • Medicine
  • Pediatrics
  • Internal medicine

  OBJECTIVE: To describe the epidemiology of laboratory-confirmed Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) cases from active facility-based surveillance in Guatemala. METHODS: We collected clinical and risk factor data on enrolled patients (aged 0-52 years) with acute diarrhoea at government healthcare facilities (1 hospital and 6 clinics) in Santa Rosa, Guatemala, during 2008-2009 and 2014-2015. Stool samples were analysed, E. coli identified through culture and biochemical tests, PCR amplification of genes encoding pathotype-specific virulence factors identified specific DEC pathotypes. Healthcare-seeking adjusted incidence rates were calculated. RESULTS: A total of 3041 diarrhoea cases were captured by surveillance (647 hospitalisations (H), 2394 clinic visits (CV)); general E. coli prevalence was 17.9%. DEC pathotypes were identified in 19% (n = 95/497) and 21% (n = 450/2113) in diarrhoea H and CV, respectively. Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) was most frequently isolated (8.2% (n = 41) in diarrhoea H, 12.0% (n = 255) in diarrhoea CV), followed by ETEC (6.8% (n = 34) in H, 6% (n = 128) in CV) and STEC (0.6% (n = 3) in H, 0.6% (n = 13) in CV). We did not find evidence of a difference in severity between DEC and non-DEC diarrhoea. Incidence of DEC clinic visits and hospitalisations was 648.0 and 29.3, respectively, per 10,000 persons aged ≤5 years and 36.8 and 0.4, respectively, per 10,000 persons aged >5 years. CONCLUSIONS: DEC pathotypes, especially EPEC and ETEC, were detected frequently from patients presenting with diarrhoeal illness in Santa Rosa, Guatemala. Our findings suggest that preventive interventions should be prioritised for young children.

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• Development and Territorial Control

  Routledge eBooks · 2022 · 1 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Geography

  The territory that Beni Xidza make is different from those made by the state and development that territorialize the Rincon in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, and characterizes them as Zapotecs. Yagavila’s struggles over land and resources describe processes of deterritorialization, charting serial displacements that continue to move and reorganize the community in new ways. Those accounts connect the colonial era of Spanish rule with the current moment, narrating disjunctures and crises that oscillate between collective control over land and resources and the subdivision of the community into private property rights. The arrangement territorialized Yagavila within the configuration of colonial power, while also creating the space to rework and renew historical ties through identification with a community. Yagavila residents faced a new challenge from Liberal reforms enacted in the mid-19th century. In Yagavila, the Reforms dismantled the Church’s role as guarantor of community land rights and replaced it with individual private property rights.

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• Effectiveness of Gas and Chimney Biomass Stoves for Reducing Household Air Pollution Pregnancy Exposure in Guatemala: Sociodemographic Effect Modifiers

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2020 · 17 citations

  • Environmental health
  • Medicine
  • Environmental science

  ). Although having a cleaner stove alone typically does not lower exposure enough to protect health, understanding sociodemographic determinants of effectiveness may lead to better targeting, implementation, and adoption of interventions.

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Frequent coauthors

• Imogene Schneider

  University of Pennsylvania

  26 shared

• Robert Edelman

  University of Maryland, Baltimore

  26 shared

• Daniel M. Gordon

  26 shared

• Thong P. Le

  Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City

  25 shared

• David F. Clyde

  25 shared

• Jeffrey D. Chulay

  Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

  25 shared

• Jonathan R. Davis

  Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  25 shared

• W. Ripley Ballou

  GlaxoSmithKline (Belgium)

  25 shared

Education

• PhD in Statistics, Statistical Science

  Duke University

  2023

• BS, Mathematics

  Stanford University

  2015

Awards & honors

• Secretary of the junior section of the International Society…

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