Rate My Professor Rebecca Jones-Antwi

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.