Resa M. Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Joint appointments: Department of Epidemiology and Community Health and Massey Cancer Center
Phone: (804) 828-9785
E-mail: rmjones2@vcu.edu
Research
- Cancer prevention and control, especially community-based interventions to increase cancer-screening rates
- Observational studies to assess screening behaviors in general and underserved populations
- Project director of a population-based community intervention to increase colorectal cancer-screening rates in Minnesota
- New methodological approaches to assessing colorectal cancer screening
- Project director on the Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network’s National Cancer Institute-funded grant assessing patient-reported barriers to colorectal cancer screening
- Principal investigator of a pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of a large-scale randomized trial to increase colorectal cancer screening in age-eligible adults who are typically underserved
Professional affiliations
- Collaborates on intervention studies with faculty in other departments at VCU, including Human and Molecular Genetics, Internal Medicine and Psychology
Education
- Ph.D. – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
- M.P.H. – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
Previous experience
- Evaluation fellow with the American Cancer Society
- Predoctoral trainee with a fellowship in cancer epidemiology, supported by a National Research Service Award from the National Cancer Institute