Santana Jones

Associate Policy Analyst

Santana Jones (she/her) is an Associate Policy Analyst at the Center for Innovation in Population Health at the University of Kentucky. Her work focuses on quality improvement and system reform efforts in child welfare jurisdictions. Jones has a specific expertise in applying safety science to improve the safety, reliability, and effectiveness of organizations.

Jones has over 9 years of child welfare experience. Before coming to the Center, Jones served as Systems Transformation Manager within South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS). During her time with SCDSS, Jones worked in foster care, intake, and within past four years with child fatalities. Jones has over three years of experience with systemic critical review process and played a role with the implementation of systemic reviews at SCDSS. Jones also represented SCDSS on State Committee where she worked with various child serving state agencies on ways to prevent child fatalities.