Jones received her BS in Health Education from Bowling Green State University, her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from the Department of Health, Behavior and Society. After completing her degree she was an environmental health Fogarty fellow at the University of Cape town, in Cape Town South Africa. Through her training and research experiences, she has an understanding of the social environment’s impact on behaviors and developed skills to identify critical factors for positive behavior modification.