Jennie Connor is a public health physician and epidemiologist, who teaches epidemiology. She has 20 years of experience in public health research that has largely focussed on injury prevention, sexual and reproductive health, and the health impacts of alcohol. Professor Connor has completed two assessments of the "Alcohol-attributable burden of disease and injury in New Zealand" with international collaborators, including estimates of alcohol-attributable cancer. She is a medical spokesperson for Alcohol Action New Zealand, an incorporated society advocating for the adoption of evidence-based policy to reduce harm from alcohol.

Current research collaborations include evaluation of NZ’s alcohol legislation, quantifying alcohol’s harm to others, impacts of driving cessation on older drivers and their families, epidemiology of chlamydia in NZ, and sexual and reproductive health in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (theme leader).