About
Danielle Hessler Jones, PhD, is Co-Director of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) and a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on social care delivery in the health care sector, including understanding the impact and implementation of programs aimed at screening and addressing social adversity challenges alongside programs that seek to adjust care to fit an individual’s life context. As a health psychologist, Dr. Hessler Jones also brings experience in health behaviors and engagement and intersections with mental health. Her ACEs-focused research includes the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine-funded Collaborative approach to examining Adversity and building Resilience (CARE) project examining pediatric ACE screening and intervention in primary care settings, and building upon the PEARLS pediatric ACE screening and intervention study. Dr. Hessler also currently leads an ACEs Aware pilot project partnering with 12 Community Health Centers in California focused on the intersection between ACEs and social risk/social drivers of health screening and navigation assistance.