Areas of Expertise

• Industrial Hygiene
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Occupational Stress

Previous associate professor in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, Dr. Jones directed both the Industrial Hygiene Program and the Utah Center for Promotion of Work Equity Research, a NIOSH Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health. Dr. Jones serves as chief editor of the Annals of Work Exposures and Health, the renowned peer-reviewed journal of the British Occupational Hygiene Society, and has guest edited the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. For the latter, she served for seven years on the Editorial Review Board.

Dr. Jones’ research addresses occupational health and industrial hygiene, with a focus on the assessment and prevention of stressors that workers and communities experience, including healthcare workers providing care to patients with infectious diseases. Her work also explores factors responsible for creating and sustaining unhealthy work environments, particularly as experienced by low-wage workers.

Dr. Jones earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington, and both her Master of Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her post-doctoral training at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Public Health, where she later served on the faculty before joining the University of Utah.

Publications

A Nonrigorous and Incorrect Evaluation of the Fast Fit Test.

Models in Occupational Hygiene.

Correction to: Annals of Work Exposures and Health Performance, 2021.

Efficacy of EPA-registered disinfectants against two human norovirus surrogates and Clostridioides difficile endospores.

Annals of Work Exposures and Health Performance, 2021.

Artificial Stone Silicosis: Need for Improved Controls.

Transmission of Respiratory Viral Diseases to Health Care Workers: COVID-19 as an Example.

Influence of face shields on exposures to respirable aerosol.

Environmental and occupational health on the Navajo Nation: a scoping review.

Filtration efficiency of face masks against aerosolized surrogate SARS-CoV-2 at different social distances.

Feasibility of a High-Volume Filter Sampler for Detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA in COVID-19 Patient Rooms.

Exploring spatial averaging of contamination in fomite microbial transfer models and implications for dose.

Comparing approaches for modelling indirect contact transmission of infectious diseases.

Community daytime noise pollution and socioeconomic differences in Chicago, IL.

Respirators, face masks, and their risk reductions via multiple transmission routes for first responders within an ambulance.

Standards for Surgical Respirators and Masks: Relevance for Protecting Healthcare Workers and the Public During Pandemics.

Prácticas de retirodelequipo de protección personal para personal sanitario.

Contribucionesrelativas de las vías de transmisión de la COVID-19 entre el personal sanitario que prestaatención a pacientes. 

Annals of Work Exposures and Health Performance, 2020.

Special Issue: Occupational and Environmental Exposure of the Skin to Chemicals.

Chief Editor Transition.

Factors associated with environmental service worker cleaning practices in health care settings: A systematic review of the literature.

Elastomeric respirators for all healthcare workers.

Aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2?Evidence, prevention and control.

Relative contributions of transmission routes for COVID-19 among healthcare personnel providing patient care.

Respiratory viruses in the patient environment.

Quantifying the relative impact of contact heterogeneity on MRSA transmission in ICUs - a modelling study.

Respiratory viruses on personal protective equipment and bodies of healthcare workers.

Environmental Contact and Self-contact Patterns of Healthcare Workers: Implications for Infection Prevention and Control.

Potential for occupational exposures to pathogens during bronchoscopy procedures.

A systematic risk-based strategy to select personal protective equipment for infectious diseases.

Prenatal exposure to nitrate in drinking water and the risk of congenital anomalies.

Personal protective equipment doffing practices of healthcare workers.

Experience of Chicagoland acute care hospitals in preparing for Ebola virus disease, 2014-2015.

Bibliometric analysis of cardiometabolic disorders studies involving NO2, PM2.5 and noise exposure.

Environmental and Personal Protective Equipment Contamination during Simulated Healthcare Activities.

Utilizing the focused conversation method in qualitative public health research: a team-based approach.

Atrazine Contamination of Drinking Water and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Community Water Systems with Elevated Atrazine in Ohio, 2006⁻2008.

Recipes for simulated vomitus.

Estimate of incidence and cost of recreational waterborne illness on United States surface waters.

Environmental and body contamination from cleaning vomitus in a health care setting: A simulation study.

A conceptual model for take-home workplace exposures.

Contact patterns during cleaning of vomitus: A simulation study.

Annual Burden of Occupationally-Acquired Influenza Infections in Hospitals and Emergency Departments in the United States.

Arsenic in drinking water and adverse birth outcomes in Ohio.

Bayesian Analysis of Occupational Exposure Data with Conjugate Priors.

Burden of Occupationally Acquired Pulmonary Tuberculosis among Healthcare Workers in the USA: A Risk Analysis.

Chicago transit authority train noise exposure.

Exploring surface cleaning strategies in hospital to prevent contact transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Estimated Costs of Sporadic Gastrointestinal Illness Associated with Surface Water Recreation: A Combined Analysis of Data from NEEAR and CHEERS Studies.

Arsenic in drinking water and prostate cancer in Illinois counties: An ecologic study.

Cross-classified occupational exposure data.

Modeling risk of occupational zoonotic influenza infection in swine workers.

Authors' Response to Dr. Morfeld.

Occupational exposures to influenza among healthcare workers in the United States.

Cohort Study of Carbon Black Exposure and Risk of Malignant and Nonmalignant Respiratory Disease Mortality in the US Carbon Black Industry.

Water quality as a predictor of gastrointestinal illness following incidental contact water recreation.

Dose-response models for selected respiratory infectious agents: Bordetella pertussis, group a Streptococcus, rhinovirus and respiratory syncytial virus.

Aerosol transmission of infectious disease.

Exposure Reconstruction and Risk Analysis for Six Semiconductor Workers WithLymphohematopoietic Cancers.

Application of a two-zone model to estimate medical laser-generated particulate matter exposures.

Multiple imputation for assessment of exposures to drinking water contaminants: evaluation with the Atrazine Monitoring Program.

A study of adverse birth outcomes and agricultural land use practices in Missouri.

Benchmarking of a Markov multizone model of contaminant transport.

Experimental evaluation of a Markov multizone model of particulate contaminant transport.

Modeled occupational exposures to gas-phase medical laser-generated air contaminants.

Receiver-operating characteristics analysis: a new approach to predicting the presence of pathogens in surface waters.

Evaluation of imputation methods for microbial surface water quality studies.

The Hospital Microbiome Project: Meeting report for the 2nd Hospital Microbiome Project, Chicago, USA, January 15(th), 2013.

Selected persistent organic pollutants in human placental tissue from the United States.

Community drinking water quality monitoring data: utility for public health research and practice.

Selecting nonpharmaceutical interventions for influenza.

Hydrometeorological variables predict fecal indicator bacteria densities in freshwater: data-driven methods for variable selection.

Comparing two-zone models of dust exposure.

Development and evaluation of a semi-empirical two-zone dust exposure model for a dusty construction trade.

Factors influencing dust exposure: finishing activities in drywall construction.

Influenza infection risk and predominate exposure route: uncertainty analysis.

Critical review and uncertainty analysis of factors influencing influenza transmission.

New molecular tools in the diagnosis of superficial fungal infections.

Relative contributions of four exposure pathways to influenza infection risk.

Characterizing the risk of infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in commercial passenger aircraft using quantitative microbial risk assessment.

Benzene exposure and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Evaluation of COSHH Essentials for vapor degreasing and bag filling operations.

Margins of safety provided by COSHH Essentials and the ILO Chemical Control Toolkit