Jennifer Wood is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.

Jennifer’s research focuses on the many intersections between policing and public health, including changes in how officers intervene with people experiencing health vulnerabilities such as mental illness. She is the North American Editor for ‘Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy’.

Jennifer is a member of the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s International Advisory Board. In this role she works to advance the Centre’s comparative research agenda on policing and vulnerabilities.