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Rhonda J. Jones-Webb, Dr.P.H.

Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health

Rhonda Jones has primary research interest in alcohol epidemiology and policy with a special focus on race/ethnicity and social class issues.  Her current research evaluates the effects of local alcohol policies to restrict high alcohol content beverages on crime in 19 U.S. cities.  She teaches courses in Social Inequalities in Health,  Alcohol and Tobacco: A Global Pandemic, and Fundamentals of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

  • DrPH in Behavioral Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  • MSPH in Behavioral Science/Health Education, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • M.A. in African Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • B.A. in English, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Courses

Fall 2012
PUBH  7396  Field Experience: Epidemiology (Section 001)

Research Interests:

Alcohol epidemiology and policy with a special emphasis on race and social class issues, policy as a prevention strategy, minority health issues

Member: University of Minnesota Cancer Center

Research Projects (4)

Rhonda J. Jones-Webb

Mailing Address:
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
1300 South Second Street, Suite 300
Minneapolis, MN 55454

Phone (Work): 626-8866
Or: Millie Woodbury, 624-4386, woodbury@umn.edu

Email:

Selected Publications:

Komro, K. Perry C, Veblen-Mortenson S, Farbakhsh, K, Kugler K, Alfano K, Dudovitz B, William, C, and Jones-Webb R. Cross-cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of a Home-based Program for Alcohol Use Prevention Among Urban Youth: The Slick Tracy Home Team Program. Journal of Primary Prevention, 2006;27:135-154.

Klein, L. Jones-Webb, RJ. Tobacco and Alcohol Advertising in Televised Sports: Time to Focus on Policy Change. American Journal of Public Health (Letter), 2007; 97:198.

Jones-Webb R, McKee P, Hannan Wall M, Pham L, Erickson D, Wagenaar AC. P. Alcohol and Malt liquor Availability and Promotion and Homicide in Inner Cities. Substance Use and Misuse, 2008;43:159-177.

Komro K. Perry C, Veblen-Mortenson S., Farbakhsh, K.; Toomey T; Stigler M, Jones-Webb RJ et al., Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multi-component Alcohol Use Preventive Intervention for Urban Youth: Project Northland Chicago. Addiction, 2008;103:606-518.

King L. and Jones-Webb, RJ. Reducing Disparities in Prenatal Care Utilization in Rural Haiti. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2008;19: 248-257.


Jones-Webb RJ, Yu X, Wall  M,  Cui Y,  Hellerstedt W, Oswald, J. Race, socioeconomic position, and premature mortality. Minnesota Medicine February, 2009.

Professional Experience:

1997 - Present Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota 2004 - 2008 Member, Behavioral Genetics and Epidemiology Study Section, NIH 2000 - 2003 Chair, Community Health Education Program, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health 1998 - 2001 Member, Health Services Research Study Section NIH/NIAAA 1991 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota 1989 - 1991 Epidemiologist/Ethnographer, The Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, San Rafael, California

Honors:

2003 Finalist - Robert Wood Johnson Innovators Award 1994-1999 FIRST Grant Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

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