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
So long, sodium: Researchers work with local school districts to prevent heart disease
SPH News, 03/19/2019
Study points to grocery store gap, inequity in access to healthy foods in the Seattle area
SPH News, 03/18/2019
More Seattleites are using food banks, but funding isn't keeping up
KUOW, 03/01/2019
