Paris "AJ" Adkins-Jackson

Paris "AJ" Adkins-Jackson, PhD MPH is a multidisciplinary community-partnered health equity researcher and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Dr. AJ's research investigates the role of structural racism on healthy aging for historically marginalized populations like Black and Pacific Islander communities. Her primary project examines the role of life course adverse community-level policing exposure on psychological well-being, cognitive function, and biological aging for Black and Latinx/a/o older adults. Her secondary project tests the effectiveness of an anti-racist multilevel pre-intervention restorative program to increase community health and institutional trustworthiness through multisector community-engaged partnerships. Dr. AJ is an HBCU alumna of the psychometrics doctoral program at Morgan State University and a board member of the Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues.

Research Interests

Adverse Childhood Experiences
Built Environment
Community
Discrimination
Environmental Health
Gender
Health Inequities
Housing
Inequality/Disparity
Life Course Perspectives on Migration
Neighborhoods
Neurodevelopment
Place-based Interventions
Policy (Policies)
Poverty
Racism
Social Determinants
Toxic Stress
Urban Equity
Urban Health
Urban Planning
Urban Policy

Datasets

American Community Survey (ACS)
Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
Health and Retirement Study (HRS)