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University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland	PhD	04/2021	Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland	MSc	06/2017	Global Health
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland	BA	08/2015	International Relations

Katharina Tabea Jungo, PhD, is a Research Fellow at the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics and the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences (C4HDS) at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include patient-centered approaches to deprescribing, novel digital health interventions for reducing inappropriate medication use in patients with polypharmacy, and disparities in the discontinuation of potentially inappropriate medications. She has expertise in mixed-methods research, survey methods, analysis of administrative health data, and clinical trials. Dr. Jungo is a recipient of a Postdoc.Mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, which funds her postdoctoral research on optimizing prescribing practices using behaviorally-based digital health interventions. She earned her undergraduate degree in International Relations and her Master of Science in Global Health from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In 2021, she obtained her PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her doctoral research focused on the use of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with multimorbidity and polypharmacy, optimizing medication use in this patient group using an electronic clinical decision support system as well as patients’ and general practitioners’ willingness to have medications deprescribed. More recently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher and research team leader at the Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM) of the University of Bern.