Faculty Research Areas

Center faculty research and educational projects, totaling over $8 million in awards during the past 5 years, focus on six important areas. In the list below, subspecialties are indicated within each research area, and faculty names link to biographies that list recent grants and publications. Special populations include American Indian, Somali and Spanish-speaking and immigrant families.

Public Health:

• Bio-terrorism and nurses:
  Carol O'Boyle (oboyl002@umn.edu)
• Complementary therapies and infectious diseases:
  Linda Halcón (halco001@umn.edu)
• Cross-cultural health and culturally competent care:
  Ann Garwick (garwi001@umn.edu)
• Health trajectories and psychometric methods for health sciences:
  Susan J. Henly (henly003@umn.edu)
  Jayne Fulkerson (fulke001@umn.edu)
• Infection control (biohazards; hand hygiene):
  Carol O'Boyle (oboyl002@umn.edu
• International public health interventions:
  Laura Duckett (ducke001@umn.edu
  Linda Halcón (halco001@umn.edu
  Carol O'Boyle (oboyl002@umn.edu
  Cheryl Robertson (rober007@umn.edu)
• Preventing noise-induced hearing loss:
  Madeleine Kerr (kerrx010@umn.edu)
• Refugee health and community-based interventions:
  Cheryl Robertson (rober007@umn.edu
  Linda Halcón (halco001@umn.edu)
• School and community-based interventions:
  Jayne Fulkerson (fulke001@umn.edu)
• Statistical models for contextual and longitudinal data:
  Susan J. Henly (henly003@umn.edu)
• Worker health promotion and protection:
  Madeleine Kerr (kerrx010@umn.edu)

Childbearing and Childrearing:

• Breastfeeding and infant health in full-term and pre-term infants:
  Melissa Avery (avery003@umn.edu)
  Laura Duckett (ducke001@umn.edu)
• High-risk infant follow-up: health and behavior:
  Linda Lindeke (linde001@umn.edu)
• Infant-child cognitive development:
  Linda Lindeke (linde001@umn.edu)
• Maternal, infant and family health during first postpartum year:
  Laura Duckett (ducke001@umn.edu)
• Menopause:
  Catherine Juve (cjuve@umn.edu)
• Nurse-midwifery care outcomes:
  Melissa Avery (avery003@umn.edu)
• Parent-infant attachment:
  Laura Duckett (ducke001@umn.edu)
• Pregnancy and childbirth (exercise in pregnancy; exercise and gestational diabetes; perineal massage):
  Melissa Avery (avery003@umn.edu)
• Vaginal birth after Caesarian Section:
  Melissa Avery (avery003@umn.edu)

Adolescent Health:

• Adolescent physical activity and eating behaviors:
  Martha Kubik (kubik002@umn.edu)
• Childhood and adolescent obesity:
  Martha Kubik (kubik002@umn.edu)
• Eating disorders, obesity, depression and substance use:
  Jayne Fulkerson (fulke001@umn.edu)
• Prevention of sexual risks, violence involvement and school dropout:
  Renee Sieving (sievi001@umn.edu)
• Research methods and psychometrics/instrument development:
  Jayne Fulkerson (fulke001@umn.edu )
• Risk behaviors among homeless adolescents:
  Linda Halcón (halco001@umn.edu)
• Risk and protective factors among Caribbean adolescents:
  Linda Halcón (halco001@umn.edu)
• School and community-based intervention research:
  Martha Kubik (kubik002@umn.edu)
• Sexual health, substance use and violence involvement:
  Lyn Bearinger (beari001@umn.edu)
• Youth depression:
  Martha Kubik (kubik002@umn.edu)
• Youth development for American Indians:
  Lyn Bearinger (beari001@umn.edu)

Children with Special Health Care Needs:

• Advanced Practice Nursing (APN roles with children with chronic illness and families):
  Linda Lindeke (linde001@umn.edu)
• Asthma self-care and interventions:
  Ann Garwick (garwi001@umn.edu
• Children's satisfaction with health care:
  Linda Lindeke (linde001@umn.edu)
• Diabetes management: youth with Type I diabetes:
  Barbara Leonard (leona001@umn.edu)
• Holistic health issues of children and adolescents:
  Barbara Leonard (leona001@umn.edu)
• Pediatric pain; preparation for surgery; childhood pre-operative fears:
  Susan O'Conner-Von (ocon0025@umn.edu)
• Social capital and families of children with special health care needs:
  Wendy Looman (looma003@umn.edu)

Family Health:

• Family-based health promotion:
  Jayne Fulkerson (fulke001@umn.edu)
  Ann Garwick (garwi001@umn.edu)
  Wendy Looman (looma003@umn.edu)
• Family health and caregiving:
  Ann Garwick (garwi001@umn.edu)
• Family health and social context:
  Wendy Looman (looma003@umn.edu)
• Nursing interventions to increase family-sensitive care:
  Cynthia Peden-McAlpine (peden001@umn.edu)
• Refugee family health:
  Cheryl Robertson (rober007@umn.edu)
• Stress and coping in families with illness:
  Ann Garwick (garwi001@umn.edu)