Dr. Bond is currently a Research Associate in the Health Policy Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and Adjunct Professor in the School of Education, Teaching and Health at American University. His research interests include paternal involvement in pregnancy outcomes, preterm birth and infant mortality, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, and complications of diabetes in pregnancy.

Dr. Bond has a wealth of knowledge and experience in both clinical and academic research. As a Research Coordinator in Women’s and Infants’ Services, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington Hospital Center he helped develop a Residency Research Program and trained residents in research design, methodology, statistics and conducted research on endometriosis and the complications of diabetes in pregnancy.

At the Georgetown Center on Health and Education he assumed a leadership role in the inclusion of fathers in the design and planning of a multi-site, multi-level study funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) to help understand how communities and families create a context that influence pregnancy and early child health and development outcome.

As the Institutional Review Board (IRB) Coordinator for the Thomas Jefferson University Heart Institute in Philadelphia, Dr. Bond was responsible for the development and implementation of cardiovascular clinical trials through protocol development, study design and adverse events analysis. In the role as IRB Coordinator Dr. Bond was also responsible for all IRB correspondence for Cardiac devices, clinical research trials and managed clinical research databases.

Dr. Bond has also taught English as a Second Language in Japan and worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer in Tennessee. He currently sits on the Board of Directors at the Family Health and Birth Center in the District of Columbia.

Dr. Bond received a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College, a Master of Arts from Fisk University and a PhD from Howard University where he was the recipient of the Frederick Douglas Doctoral Scholars Fellowship. The title of his Dissertation was: Social Factors, Human Capital and the Mediating Effects of Paternal Involvement in Pregnancy Outcomes. Dr. Bond lives in the District of Columbia with his wife and two daughters.

Speaking Topics

Infant Mortality
Complications of Diabetes in Pregnancy
Paternal Involvement in Pregnancy Outcomes
Lead Exposure in Pregnancy

Publications

• Bond MJ, Umans JG. Microvascular Complications and the Diabetic Pregnancy. Current Diabetes Reports 6:291-6, 2006.
• Lu M, Jones L, Bond MJ, Pumpuang M, Maidenburg M, Jones D, Rowley D, Ferre C. Where is the F in MCH: Father Involvement in African American Families? Journal of Ethnicity & Disease. (In Press) Summer 2007.
• Bond MJ. Environmental Justice: A Brief Historical Analysis. Environmental Expert. October 2005. Online Journal.
• Bond MJ, Norris W. The Obesity Epidemic: A Moral Failure or Health Policy Debacle. Journal of Hospital Ethics. Spring 2009. (In preparation).
• Bond MJ. First Things First: Identifying Best Practices to Improve Paternal Involvement in Pregnancy Outcomes. Focus Magazine, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Spring, 2009. (In Review).
• Leigh WA, Bond MJ. Access to and Satisfaction with Health Care Choices: A Joint Center Survey of African American Seniors and Medicare. Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. October, 2008.