Jennifer Gardy is a Canadian scientist, educator and broadcaster, with expertise in the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, and bioinformatics.

Since February 2019 she has been the Deputy Director, Surveillance, Data, and Epidemiology on the Global Health: Malaria team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

She is an occasional host of CBC's The Nature of Things,[3] a science communicator,[4] and a children's book author.

[8] During Dr. Gardy's time at the BCCDC, her team published the first paper to use next-generation DNA sequencing to reconstruct person-to-person disease transmission events in a large outbreak of tuberculosis.

Jennifer Gardy has made regular appearances on CBC's documentary series The Nature of Things and hosted these episodes: