Professional Interests

How to improve reproductive health by enabling individuals to reach their own fertility intentions in a healthful manner, including:

• • Access to high quality contraceptive services
  • Appropriate management and prevention of sexually transmitted infections
  • Maternal and child health including safe abortion services
  • Access to and use of appropriate cervical cancer screening
  • Developing vaginal microbicides to prevent sexual transmission of HIV
  • Evaluating the safety and acceptability of contraceptive options for HIV-positive women

Selected Publications

• Jones, Heidi, Sheri Lippman, Helio Caiaffa-Filho, Taryn Young, Janneke van de Wijgert.  2013.  Performance of rapid self-test for detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in South Africa and Brazil.  Journal of Clinical Microbiology.  51:1037-1039. 

• Schooling, C. Mary, Elizabeth Kelvin, Heidi Jones. 2012.  Alanine transaminase has opposite associations with death from diabetes and ischemic heart disease in NHANES III.  Annals of Epidemiology.  22:789-98.

•  Jones, Heidi, Karen Brudney, Dorothy Sawo, Rafael Lantigua, Carolyn L. Westhoff.  2012.  The acceptability of a self-lavaging device compared to pelvic examination for cervical cancer screening among low income women.  Journal of Women’s Health. 21:1275-81.

•  Jones, Heidi, C. Mary Schooling.  2012.  Given the biological plausibility of DMPA increasing HIV-1 acquisition, use Mendelian randomization rather than a randomized controlled trial to inform scientific debate [correspondence]. Lancet Infectious Diseases.  12:509-10.

•  Todd, Catherine, Heidi Jones, Tracy Garber, Hoviyeh Afnan-Holmes, Helen Woolgar, Landon Myer.  2012.  Awareness and interest in intrauterine contraceptive device use among HIV-positive women in Cape Town, South Africa.  Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology.  doi.10.1155/2012/956145.

• Jones HE, Pressman EJ, Bell D, Kerns JL, Lykes S, Garth J, Westhoff CL. 2011. Managing Chlamydia infections in young men: results from an audit of a public men's clinic in New York City. International Journal of STD & AIDS. 22: 581-4.

• Kerns JL, Jones, HE, Pressman EJ, Fratarelli LA, Garth J, Westhoff CL. 2011. Implementation of Expedited Partner Therapy Among Women With Chlamydia Infection at an Urban Family Planning Clinic. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 38:722-26.

• Westhoff, Carolyn, Heidi Jones, Maryam Guiahi. 2011. Do new guidelines and technology make the routine pelvic exam obsolete? Journal of Women's Health. 20:5-10.

• Holloway Ian, Heidi Jones, David Bell, Carolyn Westhoff. 2011. Men's preferences for sexually transmitted infection care services in a low-income community clinic setting in New York City. American Journal of Men's Health. 5:208-15.

• McLean, Catherine, Janneke van de Wijgert, Heidi Jones, John Karon, Janet McNicholl, Sara Whitehead, Sarah Braunstein, Jullapong Achalapong, T. Medtanavyn, Jorden Tappero, Lauri Markowitz, Peter Kilmarx. 2010. HIV genital shedding and safety of Carraguard use by HIV-infected women: a crossover trial in Thailand. AIDS. 24:717-722.

Education

• MPH, Community Health Education, Hunter College
• PhD, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University