Jenna Norton, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Program Director
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, MD

Jenna Norton serves as a Program Director, overseeing community-based and community-driven research relating to health equity, social determinants of health and health information technology for populations experiencing kidney disease and/or urologic conditions. Jenna is passionate about building a research portfolio that will improve our understanding of the role of social and structural determinants of health in kidney diseases and urologic conditions to improve health equity. Jenna is also a champion of data standards in research and health care in order to improve interoperability of data, thereby increasing research efficiency and improving health outcomes. In collaboration with colleagues at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, she co-leads the Electronic (e-) Care Plan for People with Multiple Chronic Conditions Project, which aims to develop a standards-based e-care plan that can interface with the electronic health record to aggregate critical, patient-centered health and social data and share that data across clinical, community, home and research settings. She co-led work to develop a laboratory measure-based electronic phenotype to identify people with chronic kidney disease from the EHR. Additionally, she is participating in efforts to advance use of common data elements and other data standards in NIDDK research.