Director of Southern California Education and Research Center
Chair of Environmental Health Sciences Department
Fielding School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
650 Charles E. Young Dr S.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Email: rmjones@ph.ucla.edu
Website: Fielding School of Public Health
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.
