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Paris Adkins-Jackson
American researcher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paris ("AJ") Adkins-Jackson is an epidemiologist, health equity researcher, and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York.[1] She uses mixed methods combining qualitative and quantitative data to study community health and the role of structural racism on healthy aging.[2]
Adkins-Jackson grew up in south central Los Angeles, the daughter of a musician.[3] She attended Hamilton High School. She gained a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Humboldt State University in 2005, a Masters of Arts from California Institute of Integral Studies in cultural anthropology 2007, and a Masters of Public Health from Claremont Graduate University in 2012.[1][4]
While she was a doctoral student in psychometrics at Morgan State University, she was named 2016 HBCU All-Star student by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.[5]
She gained her PhD in 2018 with a dissertation entitled, Examining the Validity of Self-care for Black Women: a Mixed Method Analysis.[6][7] In 2021, she and her colleagues published a guide for epidemiologists and other researchers on measuring structural racism.[8]
Adkins-Jackson has studied mistrust in clinical trial participation,[9] and is studying how police violence and incarceration of incarcerations of Black and Latinx/a/o in mid-life may contribute to memory diseases in later life.[10] She is also testing the effectiveness of an anti-racism intervention.[1]
Adkins-Jackson is a board member of the Society for the Analysis African American Public Health Issues,[11] and senior research fellow at the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity.[12]
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