Assistant Professor in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs
Marian M. Jones

Marian Moser Jones is an assistant professor in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs [http://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/gov/] at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds degrees in Public Health (M.P.H.) and Sociomedical Sciences-History, Ethics & Policy (Ph.D) from Columbia University; and Visual and Envionmental Studies (A.B.) from Harvard College. Jones was awarded a Dolores J. Quinn Fellowship at Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and won the New York Academy of Medicine Student Essay Prize in the History of Medicine and Public Health in 2007.

Dr. Jones came to VCU in the fall of 2008. She has created and teaches courses on bioethics; American health policy; the science and social context of disasters; and science policy and communication. Jones has co-authored several journal articles [http://www/ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/2/208], [http://books.google.com/books?id=1kQzMQ-gm 1 cC, http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health.html,] on public health ethics and policy, and is the author of Protecting Public Health in New York City: 200 Years of Leadership (http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/bicentennial/historical-booklet-insidefrontcover.pdf), a booklet on the history of public health in New York City. Her doctoral dissertation, Confronting Calamity: The American Red Cross and the Politics of Disaster Relief, 1881-1939, traces the emergence of this institution as a central player in emergency health care and humanitarian response. Jones is currently continuing this research, and working on an NIMH-funded project addressing the intertwined histories of homelessness and mental illness policy in New York and Los Angeles.

Before beginning her graduate studies, Jones worked as a journalist. Most recently she served as Editorial Director for Genome Web(www.genomeweb.com), a life sciences news organization; and previously held positions as a health and medical reporter at FoxNews.com(1998-2000); an associate editor for Psychology Today Magazine (1997-1998); and a reporter for Lawyers Weekly USA (1992-1995).