Before he assumed his role with the college in 2015, he worked as an associate research scientist at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Jonathan worked for New York City’s Department of Education doing research and evaluation for its Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI). He lived in Brazil for several years working as a field manager with the Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association and in South Africa as a health literacy curator. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Yale University and his master’s and his Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale School of Public Health.