Jonathan Mayer
Professor, Epidemiology, Global Health, Geography (Medical), Medicine (Div ID) at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Mayer is a seasoned epidemiologist and professor at the University of Washington with over four decades of academic and field experience spanning clinical, spatial, and infectious disease epidemiology. He developed UW’s undergraduate public health programs and directs an NGO improving health in Accra’s largest informal settlement, demonstrating a rare blend of curriculum building and community-driven global health practice. His research covers pain and treatment, cardiovascular disease, and multiple sclerosis, with a practical emphasis on geographic variations in health and applied clinical epidemiology. A former chief of clinical ethics consult services and Kellogg Fellow in medical ethics, he has renewed interests in applied clinical ethics and health-policy ethics. Beyond academia he contributes technically as a full‑stack developer to notable open-source privacy work (Privacy Badger), applying heuristic and cookie-based blocking improvements. He balances rigorous scholarship with creative pursuits, including acting in film and theater.
15 years of coding experience
MA, PhD, MA, PhD at University of MichiganUniversity of Chicago Laboratory SchoolsBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of RochesterKent State University Honors College
Github Skills (12)
opera-extension10
webextension10
javascript10
privacy10
cookie10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension10
firefox-webextension9
firefox-addon9
google-chrome-extension9
html5
css5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
EFForg/privacybadger
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan focused on implementing and refining the heuristic blocking functionality for the Privacy Badger browser extension. Their contributions involved adding the initial implementation of heuristic blocking, including the creation and maintenance of a public suffix list. Further work involved implementing cookie-based blocking mechanisms, measurement for HTTP request and set-cookie prevalence, and improving the enable/disable toggle functionality. The user also refactored the code, removing unused features and functionality related to Adblock.
firefoxbrowserprivacyjavascriptwebextension
jonathanmayer/Do-Not-Track
Sep 2010 - Jun 2012
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 9 months
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