2025 Fialkow Award

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Ross, assistant professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), who is the 2025 recipient of the Fialkow Award.

The Fialkow Scholar Award honors the late UW Dean of Medicine and Chair of Medicine Dr. Philip Fialkow and his wife, the late Helen Fialkow, and recognizes the outstanding achievements of junior faculty in medicine in research, teaching, clinical work, and academic citizenship.

Dr. Ross will formally receive the award and present at Medicine Grand Rounds in the fall.

Dr. Ross is an infectious diseases physician scientist. Her research uses applied epidemiology, modeling, and implementation science to inform policies for HIV and TB prevention in high-burden countries.

She leads an NIH-funded study testing the implementation of home-based HIV testing and PrEP among TB-affected households in Uganda. She completed an NIH/NIAID K01 career development award studying the application of geospatial and transmission modeling to optimize the scale-up of TB preventive treatment among people living in Uganda.

Additionally, she studies COVID-19 natural history and the development of immunity as co-chair of the EPIC3 study in the Veterans Health Administration.