Jairo Pena
Postdoctoral Scholar
Jairo Pena first joined the Center for Population Sciences and Health Empowerment as a research assistant (2024-2025) and is now a Post-Doctoral Fellow within the Center.
Dr. Pena received a PhD and MS in Statistics from Florida State University, a MS in Mathematics from Universidad de los Andes, and BS in Mathematics, in Economics and in Statistics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Dr. Pena's research focuses on maternal and child health disparities in LGBT populations, infant feeding, population dynamics, and applied quantitative methods.