Paris Adkins-Jackson

Paris ("AJ") Adkins-Jackson is an American epidemiologist, health equity researcher, and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. She uses mixed methods combining qualitative and quantitative data to study community health and the role of structural racism on healthy aging. Adkins-Jackson is a board member of the Society for the Analysis African American Public Health Issues, and senior research fellow at the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity. Quotes I want viewers to see a glimpse into the experiences of our elders, and then, perhaps, we can extend more grace and care for a group of people surviving a world that changed around them. Adkins Jackson's reflections on film I think science is like tofu Whatever seasonings you put in it, it will just sop it right up. So, if you season it with racism, it will become racist. It’s incumbent upon me as a scientist to choose my marinade differently … to season it with multiplicity, season it with different thoughts, season it with change. Adkins Jackson's view on science. I started thinking maybe I am a bad kid. In the third grade, one of my teachers told me I wasn’t going to be good for anything but prostitution, and I said well maybe. External links Category:Epidemiologists Category:Medical scientists Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:Women academics from the United States Category:African Americans Category:Columbia University faculty Category:People from Los Angeles Category:Living people