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Christopher Jones is an American naturalist with a strong interest in health economics, particularly as it applies to improving outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. In early 2003, he presented a report, first to then-British Chancellor Gordon Brown and then in the House of Commons, that led to policy changes to the maximum allowable number of transferred embryos during the course of a woman's in vitro fertilisation treatment. ''The Times'' in London reported that Jones' report induced immediate action by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority〔 〕 but divided fertility doctors: half viewed this as a good policy from a public health vantage point, the other half viewed the move as over-regulation in personal affairs. Regardless, Jones showed in a co-authored letter that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine that twins are six-times more likely to occur following in vitro fertilisation, compared with natural conceptions, even when only one embryo was implanted.〔Blickstein, C. Jones and L.G. Keith, Zygotic splitting rates following single embryo transfers in in-vitro fertilization, N Engl J Med 348 (2003)〕 This led to cost-reductions to the National Health Services of GBP 60 million per year that would otherwise have been spent on ineffective treatments or neonatal intensive care due to excessive numbers of multiple births.〔 He was appointed director of bilateral collaborations at the Center for Study of Multiple Birth, a non-profit devoted entirely to research into the health of multiples. Although few had heard of such a trend in 2003, Jones predicted and found that medical tourism and more particularly reproductive tourism away from the United Kingdom, along with an epidemic of multiple births, would be the likely results of fertility regulation.〔Jones CA, Keith LG. Medical tourism and reproductive outsourcing: the dawning of a new paradigm for healthcare. Int J Fertil Women's Med. 2006;51:251-255〕 ==Biography== Jones earned a bachelor's degree with distinction in biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999, where he studied genetics and chronic disease under the supervision of James V. Neel and evolution in classes taught by Richard D. Alexander. From 1999, Jones matriculated in Christ Church, Oxford University earning two post-graduate degrees, starting with a Master's in Human Biology. While at Christ Church, he was elected variously to Social Secretary of the Graduate Common Room and Master of the Hawks in the Hood and Bell Club, an ancient society with foundations depicted in a papal sword once gifted to a young Henry VIII, now housed in the Ashmolean Museum. Although its original foundations date from the time of Constantine, Hood and Bell was the secret society upon which newer fellowships including the Cardinals and Skull and Bones were founded. The significance of the name could be a reference to falconry and to lore such as Romulus and Remus and a wolf in sheep's clothing, a Biblical reference. When asked on the significance of Hood and Bell, Jones said "it is so secret, the only thing one can ever reveal is its address, 434", believed in modern times to refer to Forty Three Pall Mall, London, adjoining the Army and Navy Club, to the number of letters in each word of Hood and Bell, or, more abstractly, as some have suggested, a nod to talons: eagles and falcons have three talons in the front and one in tow. Regardless, a number of enlightened thinkers such as John Locke and John Ruskin were Hood and Bellsmen. Since 1791, the society is said to have been a bridge between the love of falconry and broad curiosity. From 2002 to 2005 Jones was president of Oxford's controversial banking forum. This forum brought international financial services leaders from around the world to discuss frank academic issues. Attendees included Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell, inventor of the currency known as the Euro. During the Oxford years, Jones won a fellowship from the Bertarelli Foundation in Switzerland, created by Ernesto Bertarelli and Donna Bertarelli Spaeth, to develop a cost-effective framework of fertility treatment that would preserve the dignity of human life. After earning his doctorate in health economics/medical sciences from Oxford, he became a junior faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Jones grew up in Gilford, New Hampshire to a family of early New England settlers on both sides (Jones and Tabor). His grandfather Art Jones was stationed as a U.S. Naval officer in Newfoundland. His grandfather's family came from Waitsfield, Vermont. Art was born in New Hampshire however to a military family and played minor league baseball in Penacook. His great-great-grandfather, Horace Austin Warner "HAW" Tabor, of Hungarian extraction, hailed from Holland Vermont (as did his first wife and Mayflower descendant, Augusta Pierce), but left stonecutting and the East Cost snow to become the legendary silver baron, senator and first lieutenant governor of Colorado. HAW was a republican, anti-slavery advocate, and benefactor to the arts. The Tabor Opera House was once the largest theatre west of the Mississippi. It attracted the likes of Oscar Wilde. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Jones (biologist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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