Salene Jones
PACR Role:
Planning and Evaluation Core Co-Lead
Institution:
Fred Hutch
Bio:
Dr. Jones’ is an associate professor in the Cancer Prevention Program, Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She is a clinical psychologist and psychometrician who studies financial hardship, financial anxiety and health. Her studies have shown that financial hardship leads to worse mental health in people with cancer and financial anxiety is key to addressing financial burden from cancer. Dr. Jones is also working on developing measures to improve implementation of evidence-based practice. Her work in implementation science has explored the use of item response theory to assess determinants of uptake of evidence-based interventions..