Jonathan Jay
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Jonathan S Jay, DrPH, JD

Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences - Boston University School of Public Health

(617) 358-1771
jonjay@bu.edu
Crosstown Center
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Biography

Dr. Jonathan Jay studies urban health, especially youth exposure to gun violence, as an associate professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He works at the intersection of data science and community health, focusing on relationships between urban environments and health and safety risks. He is the principal investigator of a career development award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to study multilevel strategies for reducing racial disparities in youth firearm injuries. Dr. Jay was a Junior Faculty Fellow of the BU Hariri Institute for Computing and a KL2 early career scholar of the BU Clinical & Translational Sciences Initiative. He 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 has consulted on public health and safety for local governments and nonprofits across the U.S.

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.

Other Positions

  • Associate Professor, Epidemiology - Boston University School of Public Health

Education

  • Harvard University, DPH/DrPH Field of Study: Public Health
  • Georgetown University, JD Field of Study: Law
  • Georgetown University, MA Field of Study: Philosophy

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHSB820

Publications

  • Published on 1/8/2026

    McLone SG, Coleman CM, Matzke HJ, Fox MP, Jay JS. Losing sleep? The effects of exposure to shootings near one's residence on self-reported sleep quantity in Chicago, 2020-2021. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Jan 08; 195(1):135-142. PMID: 39960271.

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  • Published on 10/24/2025

    Gause EL, McLone S, Dalton C, Morrison C, Jay J. Vehicle traffic as a determinant of community firearm violence. Inj Epidemiol. 2025 Oct 24; 12(1):70. PMID: 41137156.

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  • Published on 10/13/2025

    Joseph PL, Jay J. Summer Youth Employment Programs as a Structural Approach to Prevent Youth Violence: an Integrative Review. Prev Sci. 2025 Oct 13. PMID: 41082080.

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  • Published on 8/7/2025

    Lin Z, Wellenius GA, Jay J. Examining associations between street vegetation and child firearm violence at microgeographic locations in 3 US cities: a case-control study. BMC Pediatr. 2025 Aug 07; 25(1):605. PMID: 40775757.

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  • Published on 5/1/2025

    Jay J, Joseph PL, Goldstick JE. Age-Specific Trends in Pediatric and Adult Firearm Homicide After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Pediatr. 2025 May 01; 179(5):577-579. PMID: 40126468.

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  • Published on 4/1/2025

    Georges MR, Courtepatte A, Hibara A, Harris J, Beckford T, Wiley D, Weinberger E, Rudel R, Dugan E, Jay J, Pino EC. Health Care Practitioner Bias and Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation Services Among Survivors of Violence. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Apr 01; 8(4):e254074. PMID: 40198068.

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  • Published on 3/24/2025

    Shareef F, Gause EL, McLone S, Gebo E, Jay J. Spatial de-concentration of fatal and nonfatal firearm violence in Boston, MA, 2007-2021. Inj Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 24; 12(1):18. PMID: 40128917.

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  • Published on 3/1/2025

    McCord K, Gause EL, McLone S, Bard H, Gilson T, Jay J. Algorithm development for the automation of death certificate analysis and coding. Ann Epidemiol. 2025 Apr; 104:15-20. PMID: 40032194.

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  • Published on 12/5/2024

    Jay J. Redlining, Root Causes, and a Firearm Injury Scholarship of Consequence. Am J Public Health. 2025 Feb; 115(2):149-151. PMID: 39637328.

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  • Published on 11/4/2024

    Lin Z, Weinberger E, Nori-Sarma A, Chinchilla M, Wellenius GA, Jay J. Daily heat and mortality among people experiencing homelessness in 2 urban US counties, 2015-2022. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Nov 04; 193(11):1576-1582. PMID: 38844692.

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