Global Health Research Seminar Series—Built Environment, Mobility and Urban Health: 4 Studies Using Big Data Sources
- Starts:
- 1:00 pm on Monday, March 22, 2021
- Ends:
- 2:00 pm on Monday, March 22, 2021
- Location:
- Online
- URL:
- https://zoom.us/j/99450043852?pwd=Q3lnT3Jsc3h6a29ISWNYZ0w4R0NRZz09
Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Jay.
BIO: Dr. Jonathan Jay studies urban health, especially youth exposure to gun violence, as an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He works at the intersection of data science and community health, focusing on relationships between the built environment and health and safety risks. He leads Shape-Up, a project using analytics to help city residents reduce firearm violence through environmental improvements (winner of the $100k Everytown for Gun Safety Prize and a 2019 Solver with MIT Solve). Dr. Jay previously served as a research fellow for the Firearm-Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS) Consortium, led by the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and for the Computational Epidemiology Group at Boston Children's Hospital. He also consults on public health and safety with Portland (OR) Fire & Rescue. Before receiving his doctorate in public health (DrPH) from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Jay trained as a lawyer-ethicist and worked in global health policy. He received a BA with honors from Brown University, a JD cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and an MA in philosophy from Georgetown University.