Dr. Jones is an assistant professor in the Cancer Prevention Program, Public Health Sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in psychology from the Ohio State University and completed post-doctoral training in aging and women’s health research at Group Health Research Institute (now Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute). Dr. Jones is a clinical psychologist and psychometrician who studies financial hardship, financial anxiety and health. She is also working on creating patient-centered methods of determining meaningful change on patient-reported outcomes and developing measures to improve implementation of evidence-based practice. Her previous studies have investigated fear of cancer recurrence/progression and the relationship between physiological markers of health and distress.
