Hi! I'm Rebecca.


Owing to the pressures of climate change, widening global health inequity, and their interactions, it's more important now than ever that our global community makes the best use of our limited resources. 

Over the past four years, I have dedicated my graduate education to understanding how engineering can be used to design resilient systems at the climate-health nexus and ensuring that efforts to advance the health of humans or the environment do not harm the health of the other. 

As a PhD candidate in Operations Research, I employ predictive and prescriptive analytics, using techniques like optimization and machine learning, to make progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Never heard of Operations Research? Check out this summary on my labmate Katherine's webpage.

Visit my About Me page to see recent media, publications, teaching experience, and more! A comprehensive design portfolio, including my experience in product design, systems/service design, and educational curriculum design will be coming soon.


My career mission is to combine my doctoral training in predictive and prescriptive analytics with my background in biomedical engineering and human-centered design to address pressing global health and planetary health challenges. 


Learn more about my current work on health clinic electrification!

Poster_rjalcock.pdf

Check out a recent panel with the Global Health Institute on energy + global health. My presentation is 20:09-29:23.

Serving as a mentor to the UW–Madison student chapter of Engineers Without Borders on a monitoring trip to Guatemala.

Student participating in a holiday hackathon I co-organized to adapt electronic toys for children who use adaptive switches.

Standing at the base of a Ceiba tree in the Ecuadorian Amazon as part of a course on One Health, indigenous approaches to healthcare, and shamanism.

Two volunteers from the student organization FH King Students for Sustainable Agriculture participate in the pilot project for our clinic electrification work.

Throwing up the 'W' during the makeathon I co-organized called the Solympics.

Building a circuit with UW–Madison students while serving as the teaching assistant to a study abroad course in Kenya.

Teaching an electronics workshop at the UW Makerspace for a group of elementary-aged students and their grandparents.