Abenaa Jones

Abenaa
Jones

Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development,
Assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Expertise:

  • Health & Medicine

Focus Areas:

  • Drug Addiction
  • Substance Abuse

In The Media:

About

  • Jones serves as a Bridge Fellow for the large, multisite NIH/HIV Prevention Trials Network Project “INTEGRA: A Vanguard Study of Integrated Strategies for Linking Persons with Opioid Use Disorder to Care and Prevention for Addiction, HIV, HCV and Primary Care.

Dr. Abenaa Jones is currently the Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development and an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in the Departments of Mental Health and Health, Behavior, and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Florida. Jones has expertise in the social and structural determinants of substance use among vulnerable populations. Specifically, her work focuses on drug addiction and co-occurring factors associated with drug addiction (i.e., HIV/AIDS) and evaluating structural (i.e., judicial interventions, policies) and behavioral interventions aimed at reducing substance use and associated health and social consequences. She is currently the principal investigator of a recently funded National Institutes of Health award, titled “Opioid Use Disorder among Criminal Justice-Involved Women: Integrating Trauma-Informed and Gender-Specific Care with Medication-Assisted Treatment.”

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