Richard N. Jones

Richard N. Jones
Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study

Contact Information

Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Warren Alpert Medical School
Brown University
Butler Hospital
345 Blackstone Boulevard, Box G-BH
Providence, Rhode Island 02906-4800

Phone: 401-444-1943 (Butler)
Email: [email protected]

Education

Sc.D., 1998, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
B.A., 1991, George Washington University, Washington DC

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Curriculum Vitae

Research and Projects

Rich Jones is a psychiatric epidemiologist. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Brown University. His research has been focused on cognitive aging and psychometric and longitudinal data analysis methods. Research topics include measurement development, validation, and harmonization; the detection of subgroup differences and measurement bias; the role of early life and life span experiences and exposures (i.e., cognitive and brain reserve, resilience) in cognitive aging.

Selected Recent Publications

Farron M, Ryan LH, Manly JJ, et al. Assessing Cognitive Impairment in the Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project: Comparing a Diagnostic Algorithm With a Diagnostic Consensus Panel. J Aging Health. 2026;38(5-6):292-301. doi:10.1177/08982643251335370
Briceño EM, Morgenstern LB, Kunicki ZJ, et al. Measurement differences in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol across ethnicity and language in the United States. Neuropsychology. 2026;40(4):387-401. doi:10.1037/neu0001059
Soh Y, Jones R, Aris I, Kawachi I, Tiemeier H. Dyadic associations of depressive symptoms and cardiovascular health trajectories in middle-aged and older couples. Journal of epidemiology and community health. 2026;80(9):689-696. doi:10.1136/jech-2025-225333
Mani SS, Glymour M, Hayes-Larson E, et al. Assessing the construct validity of cross-national harmonized cognitive assessments using age. NPJ dementia. 2026;2(1):98. doi:10.1038/s44400-026-00143-2
Yu X, Jones RN, Kobayashi LC, Gross AL. Cross-national statistical harmonization of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale among older adults in China, England, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. J Clin Epidemiol. 2025;178:111623. doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2024.111623