CURRICULUM VITAE
October 25, 2013
JESSICA C JONES-SMITH
PERSONAL DATA
Business
615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: 443-287-5056
Fax: 410-614-4066
Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Ph.D., 2010, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Nutrition Epidemiology
M.P.H., 2007, University of California, Berkeley, Public Health Nutrition
B.S., 1999, Loyola University Chicago, Food and Nutrition, magna cum laude
Postdoctoral Training
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010-2012, University of California, San Francisco & University of California,
Berkeley
Other Certification
Registered Dietitian, 2000 University of California, San Francisco
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, 2013- Present, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Responsibilities: Conduct independent research, contribute to teaching & service in the division.
Research Associate, 2012- 2013, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Responsibilities: Conduct independent research, contribute to teaching & service in the division.
Postdoctoral Scholar, 2010-2012, University of California, San Francisco & UC Berkeley
Responsibilities: Conduct independent and mentored research; analyze data, wrote manuscripts.
Pre-doctoral trainee, 2008-2010, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Population Center
Responsibilities: Develop and implement research practicum; complete population studies training.
Teaching Assistant, 2009, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nutrition Epidemiology
Responsibilities: Create and deliver formal lectures, lead class discussions, hold office hours, develop
grading rubric, grade assignments.
Graduate Student Researcher, 2007-2008, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Responsibilities: Develop research plan, analyze data, and write manuscripts for publication.
Graduate Student Researcher, 2006-2007, University of California, Berkeley
Responsibilities: Analyze data, draft manuscripts for publication.
Summer Intern, 2006, Mexican National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Responsibilities: Analyze data, draft manuscript for publication.
Clinical Dietitian, 2000-2005, University of California, San Francisco
Responsibilities: Provide nutrition education and counseling to hospitalized and ambulatory patients.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Society Memberships
American Society for Nutrition, 2006-Present
Population Association of America, 2009-Present
Society for Epidemiologic Research, 2009-Present
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Peer Reviewer
International Journal of Epidemiology; American Journal of Epidemiology; Social Science & Medicine;
International Journal of Obesity; Population Development Review; Journal of Health and Place; BMC Public
Health; Journal of the American Dietetic Association; American Journal of Human Biology; Economics and
Human Biology, PLOS One; Public Health Nutrition.
HONORS & AWARDS
Awards
Loan Repayment Award. NIH, Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, 7/2011 – 6/2013.
Carolina Population Center Predoctoral Traineeship, 8/2008-8/2010.
Nutrition Department National Institutes of Health Trainee, 2008 (awarded but declined).
Graduate School Merit Assistantship Award, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 8/2007-5/2008.
Presidential Scholarship, Loyola University Chicago, 1997-1999.
Damen Scholarship, Loyola University Chicago, 1995-1997.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
1. Jones-Smith JC, Karter AJ, Warton EM, Kelly M, Kersten E, Moffet HH, Adler N, Schillinger D,
Laraia BA. Obesity and the food environment: income and ethnicity differences among people with
diabetes, the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE). Diabetes Care 2013 Sep;36(9):2697705. doi: 10.2337/dc12-2190.
2. Jones-Smith JC, Neufeld LM, Laraia B, Ramakrishnan U, Garcia-Guerra A, Fernald LCH. Early life
growth trajectories and later childhood obesity. Nutrition & Diabetes. 2013;3: e60.
3. Jones-Smith JC, Gordon-Larsen P, Siddiqi A, Popkin BM. Is the burden of overweight shifting to the
poor across the globe? Time trends among women in 39 low- and middle-income countries (1991-2008).
International Journal of Obesity. 2012; 36(8):1114-20 .
4. Jones-Smith JC, Gordon-Larsen P, Siddiqi A, Popkin BM. Emerging disparities in overweight by
educational attainment in Chinese Adults (1989-2006). International Journal of Obesity. 2012;
36(6):866-75.
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5. Gustafson AA, Sharkey J, Samuel-Hodge CD, Jones-Smith JC, Cai J, Ammerman AS. Food store
environment modifies intervention effect on fruit and vegetable intake among low-income women in
North Carolina. The Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism 2012; doi:10.1155/2012/932653.
6. Jones-Smith JC, Gordon-Larsen P, Siddiqi A, Popkin BM. Country-level correlates of time trends in
overweight inequality by socioeconomic status using repeated cross-sectional surveys from 37
developing countries (1991-2007). American Journal of Epidemiology. 2011;173(6): 667-675.
7. Gustafson AA, Sharkey J, Samuel-Hodge CD, Jones-Smith JC, Cai J, Ammerman AS. Perceived and
Objective Measures of the Food Store Environment and the Association with Weight and Diet among
Low-Income Women in North Carolina. Public Health Nutrition. 2011;14(6):1032-8.
8. Jones-Smith JC and Popkin BM. Understanding Community Context and Adult Health Changes in
China: Development of an Urbanicity Scale. Social Science & Medicine. 2010;71(8):1436-46.
9. Miller BW, Breckheimer I, McCleary AL, Guzmán-Ramirez L, Caplow SC, Jones-Smith JC, Walsh SJ.
Using Stylized Agent-Based Models for Population-Environment Research: a Case Study from the
Galápagos Islands. Population and Environment. 2010;31(6):401-426.
10. Fernald LCH, Jones-Smith JC, Ozer EJ, Neufeld LM, DiGirolamo AM. Maternal depressive symptoms
and physical activity in very low-income children. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
2008;29(5):385-93.
11. Jones-Smith JC, Fernald LCH, Neufeld LM. Birth size and accelerated growth during infancy are
associated with increased odds of childhood overweight in Mexican children. Journal of the American
Dietetic Association. 2007;107(12):2061-9.
12. Neufeld LM, Jones-Smith JC, Garcia R, Fernald LCH. Anthropometric predictors for the risk of
chronic disease in non-diabetic, non-hypertensive young Mexican women. Public Health Nutrition.
2007; 2:1-9.
Manuscript Under Review and In Preparation
1. Jones-Smith JC, Chichlowska K, Dow WH. The effects of increased economic resources on childhood
obesity: A quasi-experimental study. (Revise and Resubmit at JAMA)
2. Jones-Smith JC, Diekmann M, Gottlieb L, Chow J, Fernald LCH. Socioeconomic status and trajectory
of overweight from birth to mid-childhood: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort.
(Under Review at Obesity)
Editorials
1. Jones-Smith JC. Commentary: Jumping the gun or asleep at the switch: is there a middle ground?
International Journal of Epidemiology. 2013 September 5, 2013.
2. Gordon-Larsen P & Jones-Smith J. Challenges in ameliorating hunger without increasing obesity.
The Lancet. 2012; 380(9844): 787-789.
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CIRRICULUM VITAE
JESSICA JONES-SMITH
PART II
TEACHING
Advisees
Willhoite, J. Medical Student, Research Practicum, Summer 2012
Lasater, MG, B.S. Honors Thesis, 2009 (Graduate Student Advisor)
Oddo, V., (Advisor) Doctoral Student (Human Nutrition), JHSPH
Wandy, T., (Advisor) Doctoral Student (Human Nutrition), JHSPH
Dannatu, H., (Advisor) MPH Student (Epi/Biostats), JHSPH
McCloskey, M., MSPH Student (Human Nutrition), JHSPH
Jin, Y., (Practicum Preceptor), MSPH Student (Human Nutrition), JHSPH
Classroom Instruction
Obesity Treatment: What works?, (Special Studies), Enrollment 2, 3rd Term
Nutrition Epidemiology, Enrollment 35 (Teaching Assistant), Spring 2009
Other Significant Teaching
“Increased economic resources and childhood obesity: A quasi-experimental study” Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public. One hour seminar for Human Nutrition Graduate Students and open to the
public.
“Critical Evaluation of Moving to Opportunities Social Experiment” Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public. (Guest Lecture in Graduate Critical Thinking Course). One hour discussion for Human Nutrition
Graduate Students.
“Obesity and Socioeconomic Status.” University of California, Berkeley. Haas School of Business (Guest
Lecture in Undergraduate Impact Evaluation Course). One hour lecture for undergraduates.
“Malnutrition, Health and Development: Causes, Consequences and Potential Solutions.” February 14 2011.
University of California, Berkeley. School of Public Health (Guest Lecture in Graduate Global Health Core
Course). One hour lecture for graduate students.
“Nutrition Transitions in Developing Countries.” November 30 2010. University of California, Berkeley,
Department of Nutrition Sciences (Guest Lecture in Undergraduate Nutrition in the Community). One hour
lecture for undergraduates.
“Adjusting for Energy Intake in Nutrition Epidemiology.” April 2009. University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. School of Pubic Health (Lecture in Graduate Nutrition Epidemiology). One hour lecture for
graduate students.
“Reading the Epidemiologic Literature” March 2009. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of
Public Health (Lecture in Graduate Nutrition Epidemiology). Forty minute lecture for graduate students.
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RESEARCH GRANT PARTICIPATION
Title: Increasing economic resources and obesity: A quasi-experimental study.
9/1/2012 – 8/31/2017, National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development K99 HD073327
Principal Investigator: Jessica Jones-Smith; Award: $990,542
Main Objective: The research goal of this project is to evaluate the impact of increased economic
resources stemming from Native American-owned casinos on weight-related health of Native
American women and children. The career development goal is to gain skills in econometrics
and primary data collection.
Principal responsibilities: Lead research project; complete career development goals; participate
in mentored activities and research.
Title: The effects of increasing economic resources on obesity: A quasi-experimental
study. 12/1/2011 – 12/31/2012, Health Disparities Working Group & Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation (UCSF).
Principal Investigator: Jessica Jones-Smith; Award: $6,722
Main Objective: Use seed funds to create a data set that combines information about casinos,
community-level economic activity, and information about children’s BMI.
Principal Responsibilities: Supervise the creation of a dataset from disparate, publicly
available sources. Attend meetings of the California Rural Indian Health Board.
Title: The foods in my neighborhood study: Can supermarkets in low-income
neighborhoods improve dietary intake? 3/1/2012 – 3/1/2013, Berkeley Population Center
Principal Investigator: Barbara Laraia & Jessica Jones-Smith; Award: $9,300
Main Objectives: The goal of this project is to evaluate the impact of a new supermarket on
the dietary intake of residents living nearby the market using a natural experiment approach.
Principal Responsibilities: Design and implement a baseline survey to measure dietary intake
of participants in “treatment” and “control” neighborhoods.
Title: Using SITAR (Super-Imposition by Translation And Rotation) methods to analyze
children’s longitudinal growth trajectories in two unique datasets.
1/2011 - 12/2011. Berkeley Population Center Pilot Fund Grant, NICHD R21 (HD056581).
Principal Investigator: Lia Fernald. (Role: Co-Investigator); Award: $13,000
Main objective: Apply SITAR method to analyze growth curves of a 10-year longitudinal
cohort of Mexican children.
Principal Responsibilities: Learn and implement a new statistical technique for modeling
growth trajectories. Write and submit results for publication.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Division and Department
Course Development: Developing a new course in the division of Human Nutrition that intends
to focus on obesity from a public health perspective.
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School
Member, MSPH Admissions Committee
PRESENTATIONS
Scientific Meetings
Jones-Smith JC, Neufeld LM, Laraia B, Fernald LCH. Early life growth trajectories and future
risk of overweight. [Oral Presentation and Abstract. April 22nd 2012].
Jones-Smith JC, Laraia B. Neighborhood density of healthy food vendors and obesity
prevalence among adults with diabetes from the Diabetes Study of Northern California
(DISTANCE) survey. 3rd North American Congress of Epidemiology. [Poster Presentation and
Abstract. June 22nd 2011].
Jones-Smith JC, Popkin BM. Economic development, urbanicity and health changes in China.
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. [Oral Presentation. May 1st 2009.]
Jones-Smith JC, Adair L, Popkin BM. Are food prices a way to change the diet of Chinese
poor: shifts over time for the poor and the rich. [Poster Presentation and Abstract. Experimental
Biology Meeting. FASEB Journal 2008;22:866.6.]
Jones-Smith JC, Fernald LCH and Neufeld LM. Birth size and accelerated growth during
infancy are associated with increased odds of childhood overweight in Mexican children.
[Abstract. Early Human Development. 2007;83:S127.]
Jones-Smith JC, Neufeld LM, Garcia R, Fernald LCH. Waist circumference and body mass
index outperform other anthropometric measures in predicting pre-diabetes and pre-hypertension
in young Mexican women. [Poster Presentation and Abstract. FASEB Journal. 2007;21:831.7.]
Conference Chair and Organizer Activities
Symposium Co-chair. Neighborhood effects on obesity and physical activity: novel study
designs for hard-to-study questions. (With Whitney Robinson). Society for Epidemiologic
Research Annual Meeting June 24th 2010.
Session Chair, Oral Presentations. Biomarkers, BMI and Socioeconomic Differentials in Health.
Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America 2009.
INVITED SEMINARS
University of California, Los Angeles. Community Health Sciences. “Socioeconomic Status and
Overweight: Examining Relationships across Time and Place.” May 8 2012.
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University of California, Davis. Program in International and Community Nutrition. One-hour
seminar. “Socioeconomic Status and Overweight: Examining Relationships across Time and
Place.” February 8 2012.
McGill University. Institute for Health and Social Policy. One-hour seminar. “Socioeconomic
Status and Overweight: Examining Relationships across Time and Place.” January 17 2012.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Personal statement of research and research objectives
I am a nutrition epidemiologist and my research focuses on socioeconomic and contextual
correlates of nutrition-related chronic diseases across the life-course. My past and current
research pertains to 1) socioeconomic status, obesity, and nutrition transitions in low- and
middle-income countries, 2) health disparities in nutrition-related conditions in the US, and 3)
early life risk factors for chronic disease. My long-term goal is to effectively bridge nutrition,
epidemiology, and public health with econometrics to investigate structural approaches aimed at
improving nutrition-related health among disadvantaged populations.
Keywords
Obesity; Health Disparities; Nutrition; Chronic Disease; Socioeconomic Status; Nutrition
Transition
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