Dr. Jill Norris is a Professor with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics and Head of the Section of Epidemiology and Community Health. She has been with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center since 1990. Dr. Norris is a graduate of Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, where she received her B.A. in Biology (1986).

Dr. Norris studied Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA where she was awarded her M.P.H. (1988). Dr. Jill Norris completed her doctoral studies in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh (1990).

Dr. Norris' primary research interests are epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes with a particular focus on the impact of nutrition on the immune system; the genetic epidemiology of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes; and the epidemiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis.