{"id":2322,"date":"2026-07-30T19:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2322"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:00:32","slug":"jonathan-jay","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/profile\/jonathan-jay\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">Dr. Jonathan Jay studies community firearm violence and health inequities as an associate professor of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health. He works at the intersection of epidemiology, data science, and community-engaged research to understand the social determinants of violence and to identify effective, equitable strategies for prevention. His research examines topics including racial and spatial disparities in youth firearm injuries, the built environment, afterschool violence risk, and the effectiveness of community- and hospital-based violence intervention programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">Dr. Jay leads federally and philanthropically funded studies of structural and programmatic approaches to violence prevention. His recent work includes a target trial emulation finding that participation in a Boston hospital-based violence intervention program reduced subsequent violence, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, and a quasi-experimental study identifying school dismissal as a period of heightened firearm assault risk for children. He is principal investigator of an NIH K01 award focused on addressing structural factors to reduce firearm injuries among Black and Latinx youth and leads additional research developed in partnership with violence intervention practitioners and community organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">Before receiving his doctorate in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Jay trained as a lawyer and ethicist and worked in global health policy. He received a BA with honors from Brown University, a JD cum laude and an MA in philosophy from Georgetown University, and a DrPH from Harvard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26108,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2322\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}