President
Dionne J. Jones, PhD
Dr. Dionne J. Jones, mother of Dr. Dustin T. Duncan, came out of retirement to work as President for the Dustin Duncan Research Foundation. She is committed to public health and social justice issues among marginalized populations, especially people of color, women and girls, people living with HIV, substance users and criminal justice involved populations (and the intersection of these groups). Her position, as a Caribbean Black woman who raised three Black boys in America, shaped her commitment to research and service work with marginalized communities. She was an active parent committed to fighting against the unfair treatment of Black people in education, including fighting against discrimination in the educational system of her sons’ schooling and throughout their adult lives.
More about Dionne J. Jones, PhD
Dr. Jones had a distinguished career focused on research, teaching and service among marginalized populations. Previously, she held leadership, administrative and research positions at nonprofit and for profit organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Urban League, Howard University, The Lewin Group, and Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Dr. Jones has conducted research and was a health scientist administrator overseeing programs and research projects in the areas of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, HIV prevention and treatment services among youth and adults, with a focus on women, criminal justice and health disparities. She was also managing editor of The Urban League Review, a policy research journal of the National Urban League. Additionally, she has taught a variety of courses including psychology and human sexuality courses; most recently, at the University of Maryland. She has published journal articles, book chapters and a monograph in a number of public health-related areas, including in the American Journal of Public Health, the Journal for Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, the Journal of Urban Health and the Journal of the National Medical Association.
Dr. Jones is also an authentic and dedicated mentor, mentoring thousands of students and early-stage investigators throughout her distinguished career, including closely mentoring her sons—Dr. Duncan included. She deeply values education and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)-education in particular, encouraging Dr. Duncan to matriculate at Morehouse College. She has a Ph.D. degree in Educational Psychology from Howard University.
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