Featured Webinars
The Research Forum host webinars in which nurse researchers share their environmental health research. View our featured webinars below. You can also view past webinars on ANHE YouTube channel.
Research Forum
The Research Forum frames and supports an agenda for enabling nurses to solve environmental challenges to health through the creation of new knowledge. We would be delighted if you would consider joining the Research Forum, where we highlight research talks and new research directions using a journal club format. We aim to bring members together to collaborate on publications, grant proposals, and policy actions related to environmental health.
The Research Forum provides excellent resources, support, and mentorship for all researcher experience levels. Together, novice and experienced nurse researchers focus on environmental health issues of concern.
The ANHE Research Forum benefits from close partners working in advocacy, practice, and education. Critical research questions arise from these relationships and the resulting research agenda reflects the most current and pressing challenges of our profession. The Research Forum holds monthly meetings and you can view past webinars on ANHE YouTube channel!
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April 25, 2024 – 3pm ET
Title: Impact of Epigenetic Age Acceleration on Racial and Neighborhood Disparities in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Speaker: Pamela Jackson, PhD, RN, MLT(ASCP)BB
Life expectancy can differ by as much as 20 years for people living in different neighborhoods of the same city. Age-related chronic disease outcomes also differ greatly by place, with residents of more affluent neighborhoods living longer, healthier lives. Frequently, high deprivation neighborhoods are majority-minority. However, the biological pathways for how race, place, and health intersect – culminating in health disparities and shorter life expectancy – have not been well examined. In this presentation, Dr. Jackson will discuss multiple research studies that have explored race, neighborhood deprivation, and epigenetic age acceleration as antecedents for disparities in chronic musculoskeletal pain outcomes. Pamela Jackson, PhD, RN, MLT(ASCP)BB is a nurse scientist and an Assistant Professor in the department of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Jackson’s research focuses on the influence of neighborhood-level environmental exposures on the pace of biological aging. Jackson is particularly interested in the adverse health impacts of climate change on socioeconomically vulnerable communities and using community-engaged approaches to examine the intersection of climate and health. Dr. Jackson has an extensive 20+ year history working in healthcare systems and grew up in socioeconomically vulnerable neighborhoods – bringing inherent ties and shared perspective with communities’ environmental concerns. Jackson was selected as a member of the 2023 cohort of the NIH/NIEHS Environmental Health Research Institute for Nurse and Clinician Scientists. Her work has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications; local, state, and national conference presentations; and grant funding from NIH/NIA.
May 23, 2024 – 3pm ET
Speaker: Dr. Lisa M. Thompson, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN
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1 hour of Nursing Continuing Education credit will be provided for participants who complete an evaluation and earn 80% on the post-test.
What distinguishes environmental health nursing research from other disciplines of research? Environmental health nursing research is typically defined by a public health problem, whether that be in a clinical, community or occupational setting. Use of a symptom science model can be useful for clinical and public health research and is relevant to the scope and standards of nursing (Castner, 2019).
The ANHE Research Forum has developed a set of environmental health nurse research priorities to enhance methodological innovations and rigor (see full document here: Aligning-Priorities_7_26_2018-.pdf (2708 downloads ) ). These priorities were last revised 7/2018. Approved by ANHE Board of Directors 7/2018.
The Research Forum host webinars in which nurse researchers share their environmental health research. View our featured webinars below. You can also view past webinars on ANHE YouTube channel.