Jessica Jones-Smith
Associate Professor, Health Services & Epidemiology
University of Washington
Tel: 206-685-4579 Box: 353410
website
CSDE Research Areas:
- Environments and Populations
- Health of People and Populations
In the News:
- CSDE Welcomes Four More Faculty Affiliates! (11/19/2018)
- Melissa Knox and Jessica Jones-Smith Win PAA Poster Session on Health and Mortality (4/15/2019)
- Melissa Knox, Jessica Jones-Smith, and Vanessa Oddo Analyze Public Perception of Seattle’s Soda Tax (6/29/2019)
- Congratulations to Participants in CSDE’s Grant Writing Workshop (9/26/2019)
- 15 CSDE Affiliates Part of 9 Teams Receiving UW Population Health Initiative Awards (6/26/2020)
- Affiliates Jones-Smith, Knox, Oddo and CSDE Scientist Hurvitz co-author Study on Seattle’s Sweetened Beverage Tax (8/16/2020)
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.