Jane Fox, MPH

Summary

Jane Fox, MPH, is the Director of the Larson Institute for Health Impact and Equity at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Public Health. Ms. Fox has over 30 years of experience focusing on health services technical assistance, research and evaluation of community health programs in service to increasing access to quality care and support services for vulnerable populations. Her research includes coupling outcomes and implementation science approaches to identify patient, provider and systems factors impacting engagement and retention in primary care. Using these outcomes and implementation findings, she designs and implements meaningful timely technical assistance to systems, organizations and teams. From 2018 to 2024 she was employed by Abt Global as a Principal Associate co-leading the HRSA/AHRQ account team. Over her tenure, she worked across the company’s capabilities to lead, design and support delivery of solutions for the HRSA and AHRQ markets on new opportunity pursuits and projects. Under her leadership, the HRSA/AHRQ team won over $65 million in HRSA evaluation and technical assistance contracts. She led several HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau-funded projects and was an advisor on additional contracts from the Maternal Child Health Bureau, the Office of Global Health, the Bureau of Primary Health Care and the Bureau of Health Workforce. Ms. Fox started her career as the Executive Director of the Nevada AIDS Foundation managing both Ryan White and CDC HIV prevention fund programs. She then was recruited to the Nevada Ryan White AIDS Drug Assistance Program. She has several years of experience conducting training and providing technical assistance to clinics and organizations while at the Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center at Emory University School of Medicine. After leaving Emory University, Ms. Fox was a researcher at Boston University School of Public Health where she served in a leadership role on several HRSA HIV Special Projects of National Significance funded multi-site evaluation and technical assistance centers focusing on a variety of intersection topics with HIV including oral health, homelessness, incarceration, employment, behavioral health, patient centered medical homes and systems and data linkage.

Peer reviewed publications

• Hitchcock S, Evans L, Fox J. Developing evaluation measures for health departments sharing and linking HIV and STI surveillance data. Evaluation and Program Planning 105, 0149-7189 (2024).
• Borne D, Tryon J, Rajabiun S, Fox J, de Groot A, and Gunhouse-Vigil K. Mobile Multidisciplinary HIV Medical Care for Hard-to-Reach Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in San Francisco. American Journal of Public Health 108, S528_S530 (2018).
• DeLorenzo LA, Fox J, Quinlivan EB, et al. Lessons Learned from Applying a Modified Learning Collaborative Model to Promote Change in Regional and Statewide HIV Care Systems. AIDS Behavior (2018). 
• Cabral H, Davis-Plourde K, Sarango M, Fox J, Palmisano J, Rajabiun S. Peer support and the HIV Continuum of Care: results from a multi-site randomized clinical trial in three urban clinics in the United States. AIDS and Behavior. (2018) 22: 2627. 
• Hamershock R, Rajabiun S, Fox J, Mofidi M, Abel S, York J, Kunzel C, Sanogo M, Mayfield T. Student HIV/AIDS-related Knowledge, Attitudes, Intentions: The Community-Based Dental Partnership. Journal of Dental Education. (August, 2014).
• Lemay C, Tobias C, Fox J, Brown C, McCluskey A, Bednarsh H, Cabral, H. Dental Case Manager Encounters: The association with retention in dental care and treatment plan completion. Special Care in Dentistry. (Mar-Apr, 2013).
• Jeanty Y., Cardenas G, Fox J, Pereyra M, Diaz V, Bednarsh H, Reznik D, Abel S, Bachman S, Metsch L. Correlates of Unmet Dental Care Need among HIV Positive People since Being Diagnosed with HIV. Public Health Reports. (May, 2012).
• Tobias C., Fox J, Walter A, Lemay C, Abel S. Retention of People Living with HIV in Oral Health Care. Public Health Reports. (May, 2012).
• Rajabiun S, Fox J, McCluskey A, Guevara E, Verdecias N, Jeanty Y, DeMayo M, Mofidi M. Good oral hygiene goes along with overall health - Perspectives on improving oral health care practices among people living with HIV. Public Health Reports (May, 2012).
• Fox J, Tobias C, Bachman S, Reznik D, Rajabiun S, Verdecias N. Increasing Access to Oral Health Care for Persons with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.: Baseline results of a national multi-site evaluation project. Public Health Reports. (May, 2012).
• Rajabiun S., Bachman S, Fox J., Bednarsh H. A Typology of Models for Expanding Access to Oral Health Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS, Journal of Public Health Dentistry Summer, (2011).

Professional appointments and memberships

• Member of the Board, Northern Nevada HOPES Clinic, 2022 – present
• Member of the School of Public Health Community Advisory Board, University of Nevada, Reno, 2022- 2024
• Member of the Nevada Public Health Association, 1996 – 1998 and 2022 – present
• Member of the American Public Health Association, 1999 – present

Education

• MPH with emphasis in Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
  • August, 1999 – May, 2001
• B.S., Human Development and Family Studies, University of Nevada, Reno
  
  • August, 1988 – May, 1992