Rachel Jones, Senior Research Associate

Rachel Jones has worked at the Institute since July 1999. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Tulane University, where she studied gender, family and inequality and published articles in Social Forces, Sociological Inquiry and Sociological Perspectives. Her work at AGI has focused on adolescent sexual health, male sexual and reproductive health, and abortion. She has published several articles in Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health and was part of the research team for In Their Own Right: Addressing the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of American Men. Most recently, she worked on a national survey of minor adolescents using family planning clinic services to assess levels of parental involvement, the findings of which are summarized in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Recent Publications Include:

Jones RK, Darroch JE and Singh S, Religious Differentials in the Sexual and Reproductive Behaviors of Young Women in the U.S., Journal of Adolescent Health, forthcoming 2005.

Jones RK, Purcell A, Singh S and Finer LB, Adolescents’ Reports of Parental Knowledge of Adolescents’ Use of Sexual Health Services and Their Reactions to Mandated Parental Notification for Prescription Contraception, Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005, 293:340-348.

Jones RK and Boonstra H, Confidential Reproductive Health Services for Minors: The Potential Impact of Mandated Parental Involvement for Contraception, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2004, 36(5):182-191.

Jones RK, Darroch JE and Henshaw SK, Contraceptive use among U.S. women having abortions in 2000-2001, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(6):294-303.

Jones RK, Darroch JE and Henshaw SK, Patterns in the socioeconomic characteristics of women obtaining abortions in 2000-2001, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(5):226-235.

Jones RK and Henshaw SK, Mifepristone for Early Medical Abortion: Experiences in France, Great Britain and Sweden, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2002, 34(3):154-161.

Frost JJ, Jones RK, Woog V, Singh S and Darroch JE, Occasional Report, New York, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, November 2001, No 8.