Jonathan Jay
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Jonathan S Jay, DrPH, JD

Assistant 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 assistant 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. He also 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 is a Junior Faculty Fellow of the BU Hariri Institute for Computing and was 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 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.

Other Positions

  • Assistant 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 2/12/2025

    McLone S, Coleman C, Matzke H, Fox M, Jay J. Losing sleep? The effects of exposure to shootings near one's residence on self-reported sleep quantity in Chicago, 2020-2021. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Feb 12. PMID: 39960271.

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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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  • Published on 7/31/2024

    McLone SG, Pamplin Ii JR, Pappu JD, Gradus JL, Jay JS. Spatial co-occurrence of firearm homicides and opioid overdose deaths in Chicago by level of COVID-19 mortality, 2017-2021. Inj Epidemiol. 2024 Jul 31; 11(1):34. PMID: 39085928.

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  • Published on 5/21/2024

    Gause EL, McLone SG, Cunningham M, Jay J. Community-Academic Partnership to Assess the Role of Physical Disinvestment on Firearm Violence in Toledo, OH. J Urban Health. 2024 Jun; 101(3):584-594. PMID: 38771432.

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  • Published on 5/1/2024

    Jahn JL, Simes JT, Jay J. Evaluating Firearm Violence After New Jersey's Cash Bail Reform. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 May 01; 7(5):e2412535. PMID: 38776084.

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  • Published on 11/23/2023

    Poulson M, Jay J, Kenzik K, Torres C, Sanchez SE, Saillant N, Holena D, Galea S, Scantling D. Death by the minute: Inequities in trauma care for victims of firearm violence. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2024 Apr 01; 96(4):589-595. PMID: 37994476.

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  • Published on 10/10/2023

    Prentice CM, Song J, Degli Esposti M, Jay J, Wiebe DJ, Jacovides CL, Seamon MJ, Kaufman EJ. Colleges and Crime-Comparing Homicide and Suicide Rates Among College Towns and Their Counterparts. J Surg Res. 2024 Jan; 293:490-496. PMID: 37827026.

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  • Published on 10/1/2023

    Schnippel K, Larson B, Jay J, Szkola J, O'Toole MJ. Correction to: Costs of Summer Youth Employment to Prevent Violence: an Analysis and Implementer's Tool. J Urban Health. 2023 Oct; 100(5):1087. PMID: 37707779.

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  • Published on 8/8/2023

    Schnippel K, Larson B, Jay J, Szkola J, O'Toole MJ. Costs of Summer Youth Employment to Prevent Violence: an Analysis and Implementer's Tool. J Urban Health. 2023 Aug; 100(4):676-685. PMID: 37553512.

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  • Published on 8/1/2023

    Locke DH, Fix RL, Gobaud AN, Morrison CN, Jay J, Kondo MC. Vacant Building Removals Associated with Relative Reductions in Violent and Property Crimes in Baltimore, MD 2014-2019. J Urban Health. 2023 Aug; 100(4):666-675. PMID: 37526855.

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