Dr. Jonathan Jay
Dr. Jonathan Jay
Faculty Co-Director | Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health
Dr. Jonathan Jay studies urban health, especially youth exposure to gun violence. He leads research projects supported by the National Institutes of Health, Fund for a Safer Future, and KP Center for Gun Violence Research and Education. 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.
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.