About me
Denise St. Jean is an experienced healthcare consultant and epidemiologist serving as a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Washington, DC. Her work spans BCG's Health Care and Public Sector practice areas, where she advises clients ranging from federal health agencies to multinational biopharma companies on evidence generation, pipeline planning, and R&D strategy. In addition to her client work, she currently serves on the Statewide Health Coordinating Council (SHCC), an advisory body established by the Mayor and DC Department of Health to support the planning and coordination of health services throughout the city.
Denise earned her PhD in Epidemiology (with a concentration in Infectious Diseases) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar and Flare Capital Scholar. During her graduate studies, she worked collaboratively with numerous healthcare organizations including FHI Clinical and the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ). Her dissertation research focused on estimating the real-world effectiveness of oral rotavirus vaccines in low- and middle-income settings using causal inference methods applied to clinical trial and population-based data. This work, along with broader research on vaccine-preventable diseases, has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals including Vaccine, Epidemiology & Infection, and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Earlier in her career, Denise was an Analyst at Beghou Consulting, a boutique life sciences consulting firm, where she supported pharmaceutical clients with commercial operations, forecasting, and market analytics. She earned her BS in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Yale University, where she conducted infectious disease research as an Edward A. Bouchet Research Fellow, and later completed an MS in Management at Wake Forest University as a PepsiCo Corporate Fellow.