Associate Professor, Health Services
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Education
PhD Nutritional Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 2010MPH Public Health Nutrition, University of California (Berkeley), 2007
BS Food and Nutrition Science, Loyola University (Chicago), 1999
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Research Interests
Dr. Jones-Smith is an obesity epidemiologist who studies social, environmental and economic causes and correlates of obesity risk. Specifically, her research focuses on investigating distal drivers of nutrition-related health inequities and follows three main lines: 1) investigating community and individual economic resources as causal factors in obesity-related health status; 2) evaluating the obesity-related impacts of health and non-health related policies; and 3) documenting disparities in nutrition-related diseases based on socioeconomic factors and race/ethnicity, across the lifespan and in numerous populations. Her current approach combines public health nutrition and epidemiologic methods with econometric techniques to study these topics.
Publications
In The News
Seattle soda tax brings in more than $10M in first six months
The Seattle Times, 08/08/2018
Another fallout from the Great Recession: Fewer people took their blood pressure and diabetes medications
STAT, 03/13/2018
Close Up: Jessica Jones-Smith
UW School of Public Health Faculty Profile, 02/23/2018
