Maurine Jones is Co-founder and Co- Director of the Center for Health Equity, Inc. Her area of expertise is in program development, evaluation, and measurement. She has worked most recently in the area of racial disparity in health outcomes with an emphasis on community based health models that address disparities in health on a policy, system, community, and individual level.

She has several years of experience working within communities, providing technical assistance and training in community health, needs assessments, health problem analysis, program development, monitoring and evaluation. Currently as the PI of the HRSA funded Healthy Start Project (Gadsden Woman to Woman), her focus is on risk factors associated with prematurity and infant mortality including maternal nutrition, stress, maternal infections, and other maternal health factors in the preconceptional, prenatal, and interconceptional periods.

Dr. Jones received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Florida State University, and her Master’s Degree and PhD in Evaluation and Measurement from Florida State University.