Andrea Jones

Andrea jones is a projects specialist in at healthy african american families. Ms. Jones is the program assistant for the division of community engagement of charles r. Drew university of medicine and science’s “good news radio magazine”, a weekly live one hour radio magazine designed to promote equity in holistic health outcomes and research involvement.  She also co-teaches h266, a course on community engagement, for the robert wood johnson clinician leaders program at ucla with dr. Kenneth wells, ucla.  In addition, she served on the community faculty at charles r. Drew university of medicine and science from 2010-2014. She served as project coordinator at haaf for the witness4wellness project (w4w), a community-based partnership for building community strength and overcoming the burden on communities of depression, particularly in communities of color. She has presented at several community and academic conferences and is a co-author on approximately 20 publications on community engagement.  She is also one of the members of the partnership that received the 2015 ucla landmark program of the year award, the 2015 community campus partnerships for health (ccph) award, and the 2014 joint team science award given by the association for clinical and translational science and the american federation for medical research for community partners in care, a community partnered participatory research (cppr) project on depression in under-resourced communities.