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Get to Know the JHS Collaborators & Partners
Jackson State University
Jackson State
University
Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College
University of Mississippi Medical Center
University of Mississippi
Medical Center
G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center
G.A. Carmichael
Family Health Center
The University of Southern Mississippi
The University of
Southern Mississippi
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
Study Setting and Catchment Area

JHS is a long-term, community-based study of over 5,300 African American adults in the Jackson, Mississippi area — tracking heart health, life experiences, and medical outcomes to advance cardiovascular research and discovery.

NEWS & EVENTS

Welcome Investigators!

Data Documentation, Visualization, and Guidance for Data Access

JHS welcomes collaborative research by providing resources for data documentation, visualization, and guidance for data access. The For Researchers section is designed to assist researchers in exploring study materials and learn about opportunities to work with JHS data. After exploring the website if you are interested in requesting access to JHS data, please sign into the secure website or request a login account to submit a proposal or ancillary study.

  • Announcement

JHS CC Inaugural Summer Internship Program

Celebrating Our First Summer Interns

This summer, the JHS Coordinating Center successfully hosted its inaugural eight-week internship program. Two interns worked with Coordinating Center faculty and staff gaining hands on experience learning R programming, data wrangling, and website development, and received valuable exposure to collaborative research. We are proud of their accomplishments during this exciting first internship cohort.

New Website Search Feature Now Available

Find information across the Jackson Heart Study website quickly and easily

The Jackson Heart Study is pleased to announce a new website search feature that makes finding information faster and easier. Located at the top of the website, the search tool helps users quickly locate publicly available content, including news, research, educational resources, publications, events, and more. Content behind secure login areas is not included in search results.

For example, searching for "Heart Disease" will return related pages and resources from across the website, helping users discover relevant information with ease. We encourage all visitors to try the new search feature and explore everything the Jackson Heart Study website has to offer.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Life's Essential 8 and Risk of Severe COVID-19 Among Adults Without Clinical Cardiovascular Disease: The C4R Study

Plante TB, Sun Y, Balte PP, Lloyd-Jones D, Ning H, Allen N, et al.

J Am Heart Assoc. 2026 Apr 27. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.125.048256. PMID: 42037457

Metabolomic Analysis of Coronary Heart Disease in an African American Cohort From the Jackson Heart Study

Cruz DE, Tahir UA, Hu J, Ngo D, Chen ZZ, Robbins JM, Katz D, et al.

JAMA Cardiol. 2022;7(2):184-194. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2021.4925. PMID: 34851361 PMCID: PMC8637385

Cigarette Smoking and Incident Stroke in Blacks of the Jackson Heart Study

Oshunbade AA, Yimer WK, Valle KA, Clark D 3rd, Kamimura D, White WB, et al.

J Am Heart Assoc. 2020;9(12):e014990. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.014990. PMID: 32517526 PMCID: PMC7429065

Associations of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity With All-Cause and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Among Black Adults in the Jackson Heart Study

Joseph JJ, Rajwani A, Roper D, Zhao S, Kline D, Odei J, Brock G, et al.

JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(10):e2238361. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.38361. PMID: 36282500 PMCID: PMC9597394

JHS Collaborators

Jackson State University Tougaloo College University of Mississippi Medical Center G.A. Carmichael Family Health Center The University of Southern Mississippi Wake Forest University School of Medicine