Jean O’Connor
Health Policy & Management
Part-time Associate Professor
Health Policy & Management
Dr. Jean C. O’Connor is a public health practitioner with more than two decades of experience. In addition to serving as a part-time associate professor of health policy and management at the University of Georgia, she is the Director of the Health Sector at Econometrica, Inc. Her prior experience includes senior scientific and leadership roles in state public health, with CDC, in global health, and delivering health services at the community level. In these roles, she has worked with communities, educators, policy makers, and private sector leaders to develop and evaluate programs and policies related to healthcare accessibility and affordability; COVID-19; chronic disease prevention; alcohol, tobacco and other substance use; and emergency preparedness and response.
Dr. O’Connor is also an adjunct professor of behavioral sciences and health policy at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory and a member of the Board of Directors for Heluna Health. She earned her DrPH from UNC Chapel Hill in 2009 and her JD and MPH from Emory University in 2001. She is a member of the Bar, a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, and was named as a Fulbright Specialist in Global Health and Law in 2018. The students in the UGA Department of Health Policy and Management selected her for the Faculty award for her teaching in 2024.