Paris “AJ” Adkins-Jackson, PhD MPH is a multidisciplinary community-partnered health equity researcher and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Dr. AJ’s research investigates the role of structural racism on healthy aging for historically marginalized groups like those racialized as Black and Pacific Islander. Her primary project examines the role of life course adverse policing exposure on psychological well-being, cognitive function, and biological aging for older adults racialized Black and Latinx/e. Her secondary project tests the effectiveness of restorative, art-based, anti-racist, multilevel, structural interventions to increase community health and institutional trustworthiness through multisector and community partnerships. Dr. AJ is an HBCU alumna of the psychometrics doctoral program at Morgan State University and a board member of the Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues.