Paris Adkins-Jackson

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Paris Adkins-Jackson
Born
Los Angeles
Alma mater
Known forStudying role of structural racism on healthy aging
Scientific career
Fields Epidemiology
Institutions
Thesis Examining the Validity of Self-care for Black Women: a Mixed Method Analysis  (2018)

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Paris Adkins-Jackson, PhD, MPH". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. December 1, 2022. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  2. ↑ Pérez Ortega, Rodrigo (June 15, 2022). "To capture racism's impact on health, one epidemiologist suggests going beyond conventional methods". Science. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Public Health America: Dr. Paris Adkins-Jackson". BronxNet Public Health America interviews. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  4. ↑ Buck, Kimberlee (February 15, 2017). "Taking The Lid Off Greatness". Los Angeles Sentinel. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  5. ↑ "White House Initiative on HBCUs selects Adkins-Jackson as this year's HBCU All-Star student". The Habari Network. 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  6. ↑ Adkins-Jackson, Paris (2018). Examining the Validity of Self-care for Black Women: a Mixed Method Analysis. Baltimore: Morgan State University.
  7. ↑ Adkins-Jackson, Paris B.; Jackson Preston, Portia A.; Hairston, Teah (January 2, 2023). "'The only way out': how self-care is conceptualized by Black women". Ethnicity & Health. 28 (1): 29–45. doi:10.1080/13557858.2022.2027878 . Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  8. ↑ Adkins-Jackson, Paris B; Chantarat, Tongtan; Bailey, Zinzi D; Ponce, Ninez A (March 24, 2022). "Measuring Structural Racism: A Guide for Epidemiologists and Other Health Researchers". American Journal of Epidemiology. 191 (4): 539–547. doi:10.1093/aje/kwab239 . Retrieved February 21, 2025.
  9. ↑ Magana, Kristina (July 30, 2021). "MJFF Research Fellow Works to 'Untangle the Roots' of Medical Mistrust and Clinical Trial Participation | Parkinson's Disease". www.michaeljfox.org. Michael J Fox Foundation. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  10. ↑ Adkins-Jackson, Paris B.; Tejera, César Higgins; Cotton-Samuel, Dejania; Foster, Carla L.; Brown, Lauren L.; Watson, Kenjus T.; Ford, Tiffany N.; Bragg, Tahlia; Wondimu, Betselot B.; Manly, Jennifer J. (January 2025). ""Rest of the folks are tired and weary": The impact of historical lynchings on biological and cognitive health for older adults racialized as Black". Social Science & Medicine. 364: 117537. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117537 .
  11. ↑ "Meet the Board". saaphihealth. Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Team". Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
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