JENNIFER FOSTER, PhD, CNM, MPH
Fellow of the American College of Nurse-MidwivesAssociate Clinical Professor Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Associate Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health Associate Faculty, Department of Anthropology Any administrative position
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Emory University
Telephone: (404) 727-8445 Email: Jennifer.foster@emory.edu
EDUCATION
2003 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA PhD – Anthropology 1982 University of Mississippi, University, MS Certif. Nurse - Midwifery 1981 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD MPH - MCH
1976 University of Rochester, Rochester, NY BSN - Nursing
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
2007 – Present Registered Nurse/CNM, Georgia License Number 192414 1982 – Present American Midwifery Certification Board;
Certified Nurse-Midwife
Certification 4081 1989 – 2007 Registered Nurse/CNM, Massachusetts License Number 188636 1985 – 1989 Registered Nurse/CNM, Hawaii
1982 – 1985 Registered Nurse/CNM, Maryland
HONORS AND AWARDS
20152015
Fulbright Scholar Award, WHO Collaborating Center for Midwifery, U. Chile Professor of the Year Nominee, Carnegie Foundation Advancement Teaching 2014 Outstanding Clinical Scholarship Award, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing,
Emory
2014 Faculty-Student Collaboration Award
2013-2014 Fellow, Emory University Center for Community Partnerships for Faculty
Development and Excellence (CFDE) and Emory’s Center for Interactive Teaching 2013 Georgia Nurse of the Year Finalist – March of Dimes
2013 Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award
2011 Fellowship of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
2010 NIH 3rd Annual Training Institute. Community-Based Participatory Approaches to Sustaining Healthy Families and Multicultural Communities.
2005 - 2006 Family Scholar, Center for Research on the Family, University of Massachusetts 2005 Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health Mary Ann Shah New Author Award.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Sept., 2014 Associate Professor, Global Health Rollins School Public Health Sept, 2013 Associate Clinical Professor, Nursing Emory University, Atlanta, GA July, 2008 Assistant Professor Emory University, Atlanta, GA July, 2007 Visiting Scholar Emory University, Atlanta, GA Sept., 2003 Assistant Professor Univ. of Massachusetts Jan., 2003 Nurse-Midwife Mercy Medical Center, MA Jan., 1996 Nurse-Midwife Baystate Medical Center, MA Sept., 1992 Nurse-Midwife Providence Hospital, MA July, 1989 Nurse-Midwife Tapestry Health, MA Jan., 1989 Nurse-Midwife Kaiser Permanente, MA July, 1985 Nurse-Midwife Molokai General Hospital, HI Sept, 1982 Nurse-Midwife Peninsula Gen. Hospital, MD
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Membership and Service in ACNM
1982 - Present American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Life Member 2013-2015
2013-2015
Georgia Affiliate of ACNM
ACNM Diversification/Inclusion Task Force
Nominating Committee At-large-member 2008-2014
2015- 1999 – 2003
ACNM Research Section/Division Global Health ACNM Research Section/Division Global Health American College of Nurse-Midwives, Region I, Chapter 13
Member Member Treasurer 1992 – 1994 American College of Nurse-Midwives, Region I,
Chapter 13, Peer Review Committee
Chair 1990 – 1992 American College of Nurse-Midwives, Region I,
Chapter 13, Peer Review Committee
Member
Other
Memberships
2006-2015 Society for Applied Anthropology Member 2009-2015
2002 - 2004
Council of Nurses in Anthropology
Council on the Anthropology of Reproduction, Membership Director and Steering Committee
Board Member Member 1991 - Present Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society Member 1997 - 2015 The American Anthropological Association Member
Editorships and Editorial Boards
2012 Editorial Board for Global Health, Journal of
Midwifery and Women’s Health
2011 Editorial Board, Avances in Enfermería, Colombia, S.A
Other Community Service
2013-2015 Elected Governance Committee, Sigma Theta Tau International
2012-2013 Member, Sigma Theta Tau International, International Service Learning Task Force 2011-2015 National board member, Quaker Voluntary Service
2008- Present Co-Chair, Collaborative Alliance to Improve Maternal-Newborn Health in the Americas by Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery (with Dr. Lorena Binfa, Universidad de Chile), Committee on Research and Publications
2005 Honorary Member, The Golden Key Society, University of Massachusetts Chapter 2004-2009 Advisory Board Member, Proyecto Adames, San Francisco de Marcorís, Dominican
Republic
2002-2003 Member, Statewide Planning Committee for THRIVE partnership conference (teen health) between American College of Nurse-Midwives and Massachusetts
Department of Public Health
2000-2005 Advisory Board Member, Midwives for Midwives and Women's Health International, Antigua, Guatemala
SCHOLARSHIP: GRANTS AND OTHER FUNDING
Research Grants Under Review (in reverse chronological order)
Title: Strengthening Quality of Care in Mexico (PI Dr. Al Brann)
March 28, 2015 . Emory Global Collaborating Center in Reproductive Health. Inter-American Development Bank.
Co-I: Foster
Research Grants Funded (in reverse chronological order)
Title: Healthy Women for Healthy Families
PI: Jemea Dorsey, CEO Center for Black Women’s Wellness Co-I: Foster
Department of Health and Human Services Funding period: 10/01/2014-8/31/2017
Title: The development and dissemination of evidence-based, interprofessional practice in midwifery and health sciences in Chile. A collaboration with the University of Chile, WHO/PAHO midwifery collaborating center for Latin America and the Caribbean. Fulbright Award Scholar Award. Funding period: 07/01/2015-12/31/2015
Research Grants Completed (in reverse chronological order)
Title: “The Development and Pilot Testing of a Health Communication Tool to Promote Improved
Reproductive Health Behaviors in Low-Income Women of Color.”
PI: Foster
Grant Number: UL1 RR025008
Funding Agency: Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Title: “Understanding health seeking behavior of women at risk for poor pregnancy outcomes:
Women’s decisions to change prenatal providers and delivery hospitals.”
PI: Foster
Funding Agency: Alpha Epsilon Research Grants, Sigma Theta Tau Funding Period: 11/30/2012-11/30/2013.
Title: “Community-derived questions to unravel health disparities” PI: Foster
Funding Agency: Seed funding from the Emory University Race and Difference Initiative Funding Period: 12/2011-08/2012.
SCHOLARSHIP: PUBLICATIONS
Original Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Foster, J., Pullen, S., International service learning in the Dominican Republic: An asynchronous pilot
in interprofessional education. Journal of Interprofessional Care. (In press, accepted, August 14, 2015). Lund, A., Keys, H., Leventhal, S., Foster, J., Freeman, M. (2015). Prevalence of cholera risk factors among migrant Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic. Revista Panamericana Salud
Publica; 37(3): 125-32.
Micikas, M., Foster, J., Weis, A., Lopez-Salm, A., Lungelow, D., and Mendez, P. (2014) A community health worker intervention for Diabetes self-management among the Tz’utujil Maya of Guatemala.
Health Promotion Practice. doi: 10.1177/1524839914557033
Keys, H., Reyes, J., Lund, A., Leventhal, S., Batista, D., Aniset, J.C., Burgos, R., Foster, J. (2014). El cólera y el estigma en la República Dominicana. Letter to the editor, Pan American Journal of Public
Health, 36 (1), 63-64.
Keys, H. M., Kaiser, B. N., Foster, J. W., Burgos Minaya, R. Y., & Kohrt, B. A. (2014). Perceived
discrimination, humiliation, and mental health: a mixed-methods study among Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Ethnicity & Health, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2014.907389
and Perez, L. (2014). Improving maternity care in the Dominican Republic: A pilot of a community-based participatory research action plan by an international healthcare team. Journal of Transcultural
Nursing. doi: 10.1177/1043659614524252
Dickerson, A., Foster, J., and Andes, K. A profile of midwifery in Paraguay. Midwifery. (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10/1016/j.midw.2013.10.011.
Wheeler, R. and Foster, J. (2013). Barriers to participation in governance and professional advancement: Internationally educated nurses and US RNs compared. The Journal of Nursing
Administration. 43(7/8):409-414. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0b013e31829d6227
Wheeler, R., Foster, J., and Hepburn, K. (2013).The Experience of discrimination by internationally educated nurses in hospital practice in the United States: A Qualitative Study .The Journal of
Advanced Nursing. doi: 10.1111/jan.12197.
Wheeler R., Foster, J., and Hepburn K. (2013). The experiences of internationally educated nurses in the Southeastern United States. International Nursing Review. 60(3) doi: 10.1111/inr.12023
Foster, J., Chiang, F., Burgos, R., Caceres, R., Tejada, C., Almonte, A., Noboa, F., Perez, L., Urbaez, M.,
and Heath, A. (2012), Community based participatory research and the challenges of qualitative analysis enacted by lay, nurse, and academic researchers. Research in Nursing & Health. 35(5):550-9. doi: 10.1002/nur.21494.
Bail, K.M., Foster, J., Dalmida, S., Kelly, U., Howett, M., Ferranti, E., and Wold, J. (2012). The impact of invisibility on the health of migrant farmworkers in the southeastern United States: A case study from Georgia. Nursing Research and Practice, doi: 10.1155/2012/760418.
Foster, J., Hilliard, R., Chiang, F., Hall, P., and Heath, A. (2010). Team process in community-based
participatory research on maternity care in the Dominican Republic. Nursing Inquiry 17(4):1-7.
Foster, J., Burgos, R., Tejada, C., Caceres, R., Hilliard, R., Chiang, F., Hall, P., Urbaez, M., Perez, L.,
Nobia, F., and Altamonte, A. A community-based participatory research approach to explore perceptions of the quality of maternal-newborn health services in the Dominican Republic. (2010).
Midwifery. 26 (5), 504-511.
Foster, J., Guisinger, V., Graham, A., Hutchcraft, L., and Salmon, M. The Global Government Health
Partners Forum 2006: 18 months later. (2010). International Nursing Review, 57 173-179.
Kun KE, Mason S., Foster, J.W., McGowan J.E., Jr., Coleman, C.N., Lindenau, C., and Queen, E. (2010). Working across cultures: Outcomes of an initiative to improve student capacity and institutional coordination related to global engagement. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education 1 (2). Retrieved from http://www.indstate.edu/jcehe/.
Foster, J. (2009). Cultural humility and the importance of long term relationships in international
partnerships. Journal of Obstetric Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing, 38(1)100-107.
Torres, M., Marquez, D., Carbone, E., Stacciarini, J., and Foster, J. (2008). Culturally responsive health promotion in Puerto Rican communities: A structuralist approach. Health Promotion Practice 9 (2),
149-158.
Foster, J. and Heath, A. (2007). Midwifery and the development of nursing capacity in the Dominican
Republic: Caring, clinical competence and case management. Journal of Midwifery and Women's
Health 52(5), 499-504.
Foster, J. and Stanek, K. (2007). Cross cultural considerations in the conduct of community based
participatory research. Family and Community Health, 30(1), 42-49.
Foster, J., Regueira, Y., and Heath, A. (2006) Decision making by auxiliary nurses to assess postpartum
bleeding in a Dominican Republic maternity ward. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal
Nurses, 35 (6), 728-734.
Foster, J., Anderson A., Houston, J., and Doe-Simkins, M. (2004) A report of a midwifery model for
training traditional midwives in Guatemala. Midwifery, 20 (3), 217-225.
Foster, J. (2004). Fatherhood and the meaning of children: Results of an ethnographic study among
Puerto Rican partners of adolescent mothers. Journal of Midwifery Women’s Health, 49 (2), 118-125.
Book Chapter (as APA citations, in reverse chronological order)
Foster, J. (2015). Community-based participatory research in the Dominican Republic: The
on-the-ground story of conducting international participatory research. In M. de Chesnay (Ed.) Springer Series for Qualitative Research in Nursing: Vol. 5 Participatory Action Research (pp 99-116). New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Foster, J. (2015) With real heart: Nursing and midwifery in Latin America. In, Harlan, C. (ed.) Global health nursing: Narratives from the field. (pp 221-232) New York: Springer Publishing Co.
Foster, J., Houston, J., Davenport, A., Anderson, A., Lamprecht, V., and Frenkel, G. (2012). Weaving
traditional and professional midwifery: The story of midwives, a birth center, and the empowerment of midwives in Guatemala (pp. 25-50). In, R. White (ed.) Global case studies in maternal and child
health, Boston: Jones and Bartlett.
Krutsky, C., Foster, J., Kleinberg, N., Morris, A., and Singleton, K. HIV infection in women. (1997) In: Varney, H. Varney's Midwifery, 3rd ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett; 1997, 181-200.
Book Reviews
Schuiling, K., & Foster, J. (2007). [Book Review, Disease Priorities in Developing Countries]. Journal of
Midwifery and Women's Health, 52(4), 422-423.
Foster, J. (2009). Review of Speaking from the Body: Latinas on Health and Culture, edited by Angie
Chabram-Denersesian and Adela De la Torre. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 20 (4), 1144-1145.
