Elaine Jeon is a doctoral student at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Her research uses digital epidemiology and participatory methods to examine how people seek, interpret, share, and act on health information, particularly in the context of mental health and communicable diseases. Her current work focuses on how social media and AI-mediated communication shape these behaviors among young people.

Before joining Annenberg, Jeon earned her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and studied global affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University. She previously worked as a management consultant in Asia and the Middle East and as a research assistant at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity in Boston. Jeon holds a BA in economics from Amherst College. Outside of research, she enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and cooking Korean food.