JARON JONES
Cedar Rapids,IA
Summary
Public health practitioner with extensive experience in digital tool integration and data visualization, significantly improving community mental health evaluations. Demonstrated ability in qualitative analysis and team leadership, transforming complex data into actionable insights for enhanced service accessibility.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Practicum Intern
Linn County Public Health
02.2025 - 11.2025
- Increased the county’s capacity to evaluate community mental health needs by designing and implementing a digital tool to analyze Photovoice submissions
- Synthesized qualitative themes into dashboards that improved staff access to findings, facilitating identification of recurring mental health priorities
- Developed partnership-mapping visuals to identify service gaps for LGBTQ+ populations, enhancing outreach and planning efforts
- Translated complex qualitative findings into clear visuals and summaries, supporting non-technical stakeholders in data-informed decision-making
Graduate Research Associate
Watkins Lab, College of Public Health
06.2024 - 10.2024
- Enhanced data quality and analytic consistency through development of Python-based tools and utilization of REDCap
- Minimized processing errors by creating scripts for cleaning, anonymizing, and standardizing interview transcripts
- Facilitated team-wide alignment by designing shared codebooks and standardizing qualitative frameworks
- Provided day-to-day guidance and technical support to junior research assistants, ensuring consistent qualitative coding and data management practices
Graduate Research Assistant
Project CRATERS, College of Public Health
08.2023 - 07.2024
- Increased youth engagement by developing interactive digital curriculum tools
- Supervised and trained data collection team, coordinating schedules to enhance data quality
- Maintained databases tracking student feedback and engagement metrics to inform program improvements
- Documented workflows and supported adoption of shared tools to streamline onboarding process
- Improved collaboration and reduced versioning errors by introducing Git-based version control
Undergraduate Research Assistant
ISMHI Projects
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Authored systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines to enhance research evidence base
- Contributed to pre/post dashboards visualizing teacher readiness to clarify evaluation results
- Conducted statistical analysis of teacher training outcomes using Stata to validate program effectiveness
Education
Master of Public Health - Community And Behavioral Health
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA12-2025
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA05-2023
Skills
- Program Evaluation
- Mixed-Methods Research
- Qualitative Analysis
- Quantitative Analysis
- Dashboard Development
- Survey Design
- Photovoice Evaluation
- Data Visualization
- Community Health Assessment
- Stakeholder Reporting
- Python
- Stata
- SQL
- R
- Team leadership
- Statistical modeling
- Visual communication
- Project management
- Statistical software
- Verbal and written communication
- Digital literacy
- Bilingual communication
- Quantitative reasoning
- REDCap
- Qualtrics
- Microsoft Office
- Canva
Leadership Experience
- Community & Behavioral Health Student Association, Professional Development Chair; Social Chair
- Partners in Health Initiative, Member
- Alpha Phi Omega, Vice President / Director of Marketing
- University Honors Program
Timeline
Practicum Intern
Linn County Public Health
02.2025 - 11.2025
Graduate Research Associate
Watkins Lab, College of Public Health
06.2024 - 10.2024
Graduate Research Assistant
Project CRATERS, College of Public Health
08.2023 - 07.2024
Undergraduate Research Assistant
ISMHI Projects
05.2022 - 05.2023
Master of Public Health - Community And Behavioral Health
University of Iowa
Bachelor of Science - Public Health
University of Iowa