Paris Adkins-Jackson

{{Infobox scientist | name = Paris Adkins-Jackson | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = [[Los Angeles]] | death_date = | death_place= | residence = | fields = [[Epidemiology]] | workplaces = {{plainlist | *[[Columbia University]] * }} | alma_mater = {{plainlist | * [[California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt|Humboldt State University]] * [[California Institute of Integral Studies]] * [[Claremont Graduate University]] * [[Morgan State University]] }} | thesis_title = Examining the Validity of Self-care for Black Women: a Mixed Method Analysis | thesis_year = 2018 | known_for = Studying role of structural racism on healthy aging }}

'''Paris ("AJ") Adkins-Jackson''' is an [[epidemiologist]], health equity researcher, and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the [[Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health|Mailman School of Public Health]] at [[Columbia University]] in New York.<ref name="Columbia Uni bio">{{cite web |title=Paris Adkins-Jackson, PhD, MPH |url=https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/profile/paris-adkins-jackson-phd |website=Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health |access-date=21 February 2025 |language=en |date=1 December 2022}}</ref> She uses [[Multimethodology|mixed methods]] combining qualitative and quantitative data to study community health and the role of structural racism on healthy aging.<ref name="Science 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Pérez Ortega |first1=Rodrigo |title=To capture racism's impact on health, one epidemiologist suggests going beyond conventional methods |journal=Science |date=15 June 2022 |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/capture-racism-s-impact-health-one-epidemiologist-suggests-going-beyond-conventional |access-date=21 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

Adkins-Jackson grew up in south central [[Los Angeles]], the daughter of a musician.<ref name="BronxNet interview">{{cite web |title=Public Health America: Dr. Paris Adkins-Jackson |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6oJrcNQAEU |website=BronxNet Public Health America interviews |access-date=22 February 2025}}</ref> She attended [[Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles)|Hamilton High School]]. She gained a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from [[California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt|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.<ref name="Columbia Uni bio" /><ref name="LA Sentinel 2017">{{cite news |last1=Buck |first1=Kimberlee |title=Taking The Lid Off Greatness |url=https://lasentinel.net/taking-the-lid-off-greatness.html |access-date=22 February 2025 |work=Los Angeles Sentinel |date=15 February 2017}}</ref>

While she was a doctoral student in [[psychometrics]] at [[Morgan State University]], she was named 2016 [[Historically black colleges and universities|HBCU]] All-Star student by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.<ref name="Habari Network">{{cite news |title=White House Initiative on HBCUs selects Adkins-Jackson as this year's HBCU All-Star student |url=https://www.thehabarinetwork.com/paris-adkins-jackson-named-2016-hbcu-star-student |access-date=21 February 2025 |publisher=The Habari Network |date=2016}}</ref>

She gained her PhD in 2018 with a dissertation entitled, ''Examining the Validity of Self-care for Black Women: a Mixed Method Analysis''.<ref name="PhD dissertation">{{cite book |last1=Adkins-Jackson |first1=Paris |title=Examining the Validity of Self-care for Black Women: a Mixed Method Analysis |date=2018 |publisher=Morgan State University |location=Baltimore}}</ref><ref name="Adkins-Jackson 2023">{{cite journal |last1=Adkins-Jackson |first1=Paris B. |last2=Jackson Preston |first2=Portia A. |last3=Hairston |first3=Teah |title='The only way out': how self-care is conceptualized by Black women |journal=Ethnicity & Health |date=2 January 2023 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=29–45 |doi=10.1080/13557858.2022.2027878 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13557858.2022.2027878 |access-date=22 February 2025|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 2021, she and her colleagues published a guide for epidemiologists and other researchers on measuring [[Structural racism|structural racism]].<ref name="Adkins-Jackson 2021 guide">{{cite journal |last1=Adkins-Jackson |first1=Paris B |last2=Chantarat |first2=Tongtan |last3=Bailey |first3=Zinzi D |last4=Ponce |first4=Ninez A |title=Measuring Structural Racism: A Guide for Epidemiologists and Other Health Researchers |journal=American Journal of Epidemiology |date=24 March 2022 |volume=191 |issue=4 |pages=539–547 |doi=10.1093/aje/kwab239 |url=https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/191/4/539/6375136?login=false |access-date=21 February 2025|pmc=9077112 }}</ref>

Adkins-Jackson has studied mistrust in clinical trial participation,<ref name="MJFF">{{cite web |last1=Magana |first1=Kristina |title=MJFF Research Fellow Works to 'Untangle the Roots' of Medical Mistrust and Clinical Trial Participation {{!}} Parkinson's Disease |url=https://www.michaeljfox.org/news/mjff-research-fellow-works-untangle-roots-medical-mistrust-and-clinical-trial-participation |website=www.michaeljfox.org |publisher=Michael J Fox Foundation |access-date=22 February 2025 |language=en |date=30 July 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Adkins-Jackson 2025 SocSciMed">{{cite journal |last1=Adkins-Jackson |first1=Paris B. |last2=Tejera |first2=César Higgins |last3=Cotton-Samuel |first3=Dejania |last4=Foster |first4=Carla L. |last5=Brown |first5=Lauren L. |last6=Watson |first6=Kenjus T. |last7=Ford |first7=Tiffany N. |last8=Bragg |first8=Tahlia |last9=Wondimu |first9=Betselot B. |last10=Manly |first10=Jennifer J. |title="Rest of the folks are tired and weary": The impact of historical lynchings on biological and cognitive health for older adults racialized as Black |journal=Social Science & Medicine |date=January 2025 |volume=364 |article-number=117537 |doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117537|doi-access=free }}</ref> She is also testing the effectiveness of an anti-racism intervention.<ref name="Columbia Uni bio" />

Adkins-Jackson is a board member of the Society for the Analysis African American Public Health Issues,<ref name="SAAPHI board">{{cite web |title=Meet the Board |url=https://www.saaphi.org/saaphi-board |website=saaphihealth |publisher=Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues |access-date=22 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref> and senior research fellow at the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity.<ref name="CARHE members">{{cite web |title=Team |url=https://carhe.umn.edu/team |website=Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity |access-date=22 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

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