Rina Fox

Rina Fox is a clinical health psychologist and Co-Director of the Cancer Center's Behavioral Measurement and Interventions Shared Resource. Her research is broadly focused on delineating how psychosocial processes impact adjustment to and coping with cancer, with an emphasis on developing and testing behavioral interventions to improve symptom management and health related quality of life (HRQOL) among cancer survivors. She is particularly interested in the role of sleep in HRQOL. In her research, she uses digital intervention delivery to improve access to psychosocial care and intervention optimization methods to decrease the burden of engaging with psychosocial interventions. 

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Selected Publications:

• Fox RS, Badger TA, Moya S, Gudenkauf LM, Nelson MA, O’Neill RM, Leete JJ, Friedman S, Katsanis E, Victorson DE, Sanford SD, Penedo FJ, Antoni MH, Oswald LB. An HRQOL proof-of-concept analysis of the TOGETHER intervention for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors: A brief report. Psychooncology. July 2025;e70234. doi:10.1002/pon.70234
• Skiba MB, Badger TA, Pace TWW, Grander MA, Haynes PL, Segrin C, Fox RS. Patterns of dietary quality, physical activity, and sleep duration among cancer survivors and caregivers. J Behav Med. Feb 2025; 48(1):162-175. doi:10.1007/s10865-024-00523-0
• Fox RS, Brandon K, Badger TA, Gaumond JS, Morales AA, Ong JC, Parthasarathy S, Rini C, Zee PC, Tanner EJ, Ancoli-Israel S, Penedo FJ, Siddique J, Wu LM, Reid KJ, Kaiser K. Stakeholder-informed refinement of a behavioral sleep and circadian intervention for gynecologic cancer survivors: An application of the MOST framework preparation phase. Transl Behav Med. Jan 2025; 15(1):ibaf001. doi:10.1093/tbm/ibaf001
• Fox RS, Armstrong GE, Gaumond JS, Vigoureaux TFD, Miller CH, Sanford SD, Salsman JM, Katsanis E, Badger TA, Reed D, Gonzalez BD, Jim HSL, Warner EL, Victorson D!, Oswald LB!. Social isolation and social connectedness among young adult cancer survivors: A systematic review. Cancer. Oct 2023;129(19):2946-2965. doi:10.1002/cncr.34934 !co-senior authors *within the top 10% of most-viewed Cancer articles in 2023.