Rate My Professor Rebecca Jones-Antwi

Rebecca Jones-Antwi is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health at Baylor University’s Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences, joining the tenure-track faculty in 2023. She earned her PhD in Nutrition and Health Sciences from Emory University in 2020, an MPH in Global Health from Emory University in 2015, and a BA in History from Centre College in 2012. Prior to her current role, she held a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology and Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory University from 2020 to 2023. Earlier positions include Research Assistant at Emory’s Global Diabetes Research Center from 2015 to 2020, Graduate Intern at the World Health Organization in Copenhagen from 2014 to 2015, Graduate Research Assistant at the Emory Prevention Research Center from 2013 to 2015, and Research Scientist at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute in Louisville, Kentucky from 2012 to 2013. She also serves as an External Faculty Affiliate at the University of Texas Population Research Center since 2024.

Dr. Jones-Antwi’s research focuses on the relationship between places and health, emphasizing contextual, social, and environmental determinants, obesity dynamics across the lifecourse, migration, nutritional epidemiology, immigrant and refugee health, multimorbidity, and chronic disease among foreign-born populations. Key publications include “Associations between Dietary Practices and Growth Trajectories in Preschool Children” in the American Journal of Epidemiology (2024), “Role of country of origin and state of residence for dietary change among foreign-born adults in the US” in Health & Place (2023), “Unhealthy Weight among young Children in the Middle East and North African Region” in Public Health Nutrition (2023), “Changes in Incidence of Childhood Obesity” in Pediatrics (2022), and “The Prevalence of Multimorbidity among Foreign-Born Adults in the United States” in Ethnicity & Disease (2022). Her work has received media attention from CNN and others. Awards and honors include a three-year Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (2024) for “Stuck in the Middle: The Intersectionality of Multiracial Adults and Cardiovascular Health,” Robbins College Pure Gold in Research Recipient (2024), Early Career Nutrition Member Spotlight from the American Society for Nutrition (2022), Applebaum-Peabody Scholarship from Emory University (2019), and NHLBI Multidisciplinary Research Training Postdoctoral Trainee (2021–2023). She teaches undergraduate and graduate epidemiology courses at Baylor University, such as Epidemiology/Vital Statistics and Public Health Concepts in Epidemiology, and serves on thesis and dissertation committees.