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CURRICULUM VITAE Part I
PERSONAL DATA
Kamila Anise Alexander, PhD, MPH, RN Office Address:
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing 525 North Wolfe Street, Room 456
Baltimore, MD 21205 443-287-8529
EDUCATION
Year Degree Earned Institution Location
2014 Post-Doctoral Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD School of Nursing
2012 PhD University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
School of Nursing
2006 MSN/MPH Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD School of Nursing/Bloomberg
School of Public Health
2001 BSN Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
School of Nursing
1996 BS Howard University Washington, DC
2 CURRENT LICENSE AND CERTIFICATION
Year Source Type License Number
9/2001 – 9/2016 Maryland Board of Nursing RN R154325 2012 Teaching Certificate,Center for Teaching and Learning,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Years Position Institution/Location
2015 -present Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD 2013 – 2014 Project Director, Project Connect: Johns Hopkins University
Evaluation of a Public Health Partnership Bloomberg School of Public Health to Prevent Violence Against Women Baltimore, MD
2013 – 2014 T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Johns Hopkins University
Research Service Award (NRSA) School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD Institutional Research Training
Grant T32-HDO64428
2013 – 2014 Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Yale University Schools of Public Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS Health and Nursing, New Haven, CT 2011 – 2013 F31 Predoctoral Fellow, NRSA Individual University of Pennsylvania School of
Research Training Grant, F31 NR013121-01 Nursing, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Sexuality Research Trainee, National San Francisco State University
Sexuality Resource Center Summer Institute San Francisco, CA
2009 –2011 T32 Predoctoral Fellow, NRSA Institutional University of Pennsylvania School of Research Training Grant, T32NR007100 Nursing, Philadelphia, PA
2011 – 2012 Research Assistant, Barbershop-based University of Pennsylvania
HIV/STD risk reduction for African School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA American young men
2009 - 2011 Research Nurse, HVTN 505 VRC DNA Perelman School of Medicine prime/rAd5 boost HIV vaccines in Ad5 University of Pennsylvania
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Years Position Institution/Location
2009 – 2010 Research Nurse, HVTN 906 Longitudinal Perelman School of Medicine Study of Women at High Risk for HIV-1 University of Pennsylvania Infection to Inform HIV Vaccine Trial Philadelphia, PA
Participation
2008 -2014 Clinical Consultant, Health Resources Washington, DC and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau
2008 – 2013 Staff Nurse, Healthcare for the Homeless Baltimore, MD 2007 – 2011 Nurse Consultant, HealthHIV – Washington, DC
Supporting Networks of HIV Care by Enhancing Primary Medical Care Project
2006 HIV/AIDS Nurse Trainer Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Health Volunteers Overseas
2005 – 2008 Director of Nursing Chase Brexton Health Services Baltimore, MD
2002 – 2005 Women’s Wellness Nurse Chase Brexton Health Services Baltimore, MD
2001 – 2002 Triage Registered Nurse Chase Brexton Health Services Baltimore, MD
2000 – 2001 Community Outreach Johns Hopkins University
Intern Baltimore, MD
2000 English-As-A-Second Dallas Public Schools Language/Literacy Teacher Dallas County Jail
Dallas, TX 2000 Bilingual Parent Educator Dallas, TX
AVANCE
1998 – 1999 Volunteer Coordinator , US Peace Corps Quito, Ecuador Maternal and Child Health Project
1996 – 1998 Health/Nutrition, US Peace Corps Quinindé, Ecuador Extensionist, Maternal and Child Health Project
4 HONORS AND AWARDS
2015 New Nurse Faculty Fellowship Award Recipient, Maryland Higher Education Commission
2012 Wealtha McGurn Research Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Fontaine Award for Excellence in Fellowship, W. T. V. Fontaine Society, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2009 William T.V. Fontaine Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2004 Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2001 Global Health Promotions Scholar, Johns Hopkins University/University of Gothenburg, Baltimore, MD
2001 United States Peace Corps Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
2001 Rhodes/Carpenter Scholar, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
1996 Leadership for America Presidential Scholar, Howard University, Washington, DC RESEARCH
Sponsored Projects
2015 – 2017 Childbearing Motivation and Contraceptive Behaviors among Young Women with PID, (3R011NE013507-04S1), 2/1/2015 – 01/31/2017, Alexander (Trainee), M. Trent (PI), funded by NINR, total direct costs $123,756.56, 75% effort
2013 - 2017 Integrated Risk Reduction Intervention for Abused African-Caribbean Women, University of the Virgin Islands, (P208354718), 7/1/2012 – 6/30/17, Alexander (Co-I), D. Campbell (PI), funded by NIMHD, total direct costs $957,734
2013 – 2014 Young Women’s Healthy Relationship Study: Exploring Reproductive Coercion, Mental Health, and HIV Risks among Young Adult Women, (R25-MH087217) 9/1/13 – 6/30/14, Alexander (PI), funded by NIMH, total direct costs $19,840
2013 – 2014 Project Connect: Evaluation of a Public Health Partnership to Prevent Violence Against Women, 5/1/13 – 2/28/14, Alexander (Co-I), Decker (PI), Futures Without Violence/Office of Women’s Health, funded by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, total direct costs $10,000
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2013 – 2014 Sexual Safety and Sexual Security: Explorations of Relationship Dynamics among Black Emerging Adult Heterosexual Men, 9/1/13 – 10/1/14, Alexander (PI), funded by American Nurses Foundation, total direct costs $5,000
2013 Abuse Status and Health Consequences for African-American and African-Caribbean Women, (5P20MD002286-04), 9/1/08 – 6/30/13, Alexander (Co-I), J. Campbell (PI), funded by NIMHD, total direct costs $1,015,660
2011 Narratives of Sexuality and Sexual Safety among Black Emerging Adult Women, (F31 NR013121-01), 9/1/2011 – 12/21/2012, Alexander (PI), NINR ($41,800); Small Research Grant Award, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing ($5,000); Student Research Grant Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality ($1,000); Leboy-Davis Fellowship Award, Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences ($500) 2010 – 2012 Co-construction of Trusting Relations: Black Women, Well-Being, and Maintaining an
Embodied Self, (T32NR007100),10/1/2010 – 1/30/2012, Alexander (Co-PI), Laureau (Co-PI), funded by NINR, total direct costs $500
SCHOLARSHIP
Peer-Reviewed Publications (*indicates data-based)
1. *Sabri, B., Holliday, C., Alexander, K.A., Huerta, J., Cimino, A., Callwood, G., Campbell, J.C. (in press) Cumulative Violence Exposures: Black Women’s Responses and Sources of Strength. Social Work in Public Health.
2. Brawner, B. M., Alexander, K. A., Fannin, E. F., Baker, J. L., and Davis, Z. M. (in press). The Role of Sexual Health Professionals in Developing a Shared Concept of Risky Sexual Behavior as it Relates to HIV Transmission. Public Health Nursing.
3. *Sabri, B., Alexander, K.A., St. Vil, NM, Huerta, J., Callwood, G., Campbell, J.C. (in press). Multiple Intimate Partner Violence Experiences: Knowledge, Access, Utilization and Barriers to Utilization of Resources by Women of the African Diaspora. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 4. Alexander, K. A., Teitelman, A. M.& Jemmott, L. S., & D’Antonio, P. (2014). Addressing sexual
health behaviour during emerging adulthood: A critical review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing, [Epub ahead of print] doi: 10.1111/jocn.12640.
5. *Alexander, K. A., & Fannin, E.F. (2014). Sexual safety and sexual security among young black women who have sex with women and men. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing: In Focus Series on GLBT Health, 43, 509-519. doi: 10.1111/1552-6909.12461.
6. Latkin, C., Davey-Rothwell, M. A., Knowlton, A. R., Alexander, K. A., Boodram, B., & Williams, C. T. (2013). Social network approaches to recruitment, HIV prevention, medical care, and medication adherence, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 63(1), S54-S58. doi:
10.1097/QAI.0b013e3182928e2a.
7. Alexander, K. A. (2013) Sexuality, reproduction, autonomy, and the female condom. Journal of Nursing Doctoral Students Scholarship, 1(1), 12-23.
8. *Brawner, B. M., Davis, Z. M., Fannin, E. F.,& Alexander, K. A. (2012) Clinical depression and condom use attitudes and beliefs among African American adolescent females. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 23(3), 184-194. doi:10.1016/j.jana.2011.03.005.
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9. Alexander, K. A., Coleman, C. L., Deatrick, J. A.,& Jemmott, L. S. (2012) Moving beyond safe sex to women-controlled safe sex: A concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 68(8), 1858-1869. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05881.x.
10. Alexander, K. A., Dovydaitis, T., Beacham, B., Bohinski, J., Brawner, B., Clements, C., … Sommers, M. (2011) Learning health equity frameworks within a community of scholars. Journal of Nursing Education, 50(10), 569-574. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20110630-05.
Presentations International
2014 Alexander, K.A. Unraveling Meanings of Coercive Sex: The Delicate Balance between
Pregnancy Expectations and HIV Risks among Low-Income Black Emerging Adults in Baltimore, Maryland USA. Faculty of Health Seminars – Nursing Research: Vulnerable Populations and Infectious Diseases, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, July 17, 2014 [Invited]
2013 Alexander, K.A., Huerta, J., Sabri, B., Campbell, J., Callwood, G. “Because of it, I am a stronger woman:” Analyzing Protective Factors and Expressions of Power among Women with
Cumulative Abuse Experiences in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Baltimore, MD. Seventh Annual National Conference on Health Disparities: Reducing Health Disparities through Sustaining and Strengthening Healthy Communities, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands [Poster]
2013 Alexander, K.A. Promoting Sexual Health among Young Women: Implications for Public Health Nursing Research and Practice. APHA 141st Annual Meeting and Exposition, Boston, MA
[Podium]
2013 Alexander, K.A. Sexual Safety and Sexual Security: Extending the Language of Sexual Decision-Making. World Association of Sexual Health, Porto Alegre, Brazil [Podium]
2013 Alexander, K.A. Disentangling Meanings of Safety: Young Women’s Emotional Resilience in Sexual Relations. APHA 141st Annual Meeting and Exposition, Boston, MA [Poster]
2012 Alexander, K.A. Multiple Dimensions of Sexual Safety and Sexual Security: Perspectives from Black Emerging Adult Women. APHA 140th Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, CA [Podium]
2012 Alexander, K.A. Sexual Safety: What Does it Really Mean? International Council on Women’s Health Issues 19th Congress, Bangkok, Thailand [Podium]
2011 Alexander, K.A. Health Promotion and Black Women: Enacting Trust from the Chair. APHA 139th Annual Meeting and Exposition, Washington, DC [Podium]
2011 Alexander, K.A. Sexual safety and U.S. Black women: What are we missing? World Association of Sexual Health, Glasgow, United Kingdom [Poster]
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2010 Alexander, K.A. Women-controlled Safe Sex: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis Penn-ICOWHI 18th International Congress, Philadelphia, PA [Poster]
National
2015 Alexander, K.A., Volpe, E.M., Abboud, S.M. Reproductive Coercion and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Young LowIncome Behaviorally Bisexual Women. Center for AIDS Research Social and Behavioral Research Network 9th Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD. [Poster]
2015 Alexander, K.A. Defining Coercion among Low-Income Young Adults in Baltimore: Findings from Two Pilot Studies. National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence, Washington, D.C. [Podium]
2014 Kagan, S.H. & Alexander, K.A. Nuts and Bolts of Qualitative Research (Ethnographic & Narrative Methods). APTA Combined Sections Meeting, Las Vegas, NV [Podium]
2013 Kagan, S.H., Alexander, K.A., Lysaght, S.E., Towsley, G. Research Symposium - Qualitative Methods: Everything You Wanted to Know but Were Unsure Whom to Ask (Narrative Methods).
APTA Combined Sections Meeting, San Diego, CA [Podium]
2012 Alexander, K.A. Pleasure Politics: Black Women, Well-Being, and the Power of Resistance. 18th Annual Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges Undergraduate Women’s Studies Conference, Bethlehem, PA, March 29, 2012 [Keynote]
2012 Alexander, KA. The Transgressive Gaze: Black Women, Health, and Situated Resistance. Dr. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw Women’s History Month Lecture, Albion, MI, March 27, 2012 [Keynote] 2012 Alexander, K.A. Sexual Safety among Black Emerging Adult Women: Hidden Meanings and
Explicit Actions Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Conference, Washington, DC [Poster]
2012 Alexander, K.A. Politics of Desire: Black Women, Healthy Sexuality, and Sexual Safety. Feminism Unbound: National Women’s Studies Association 2012 Conference, Oakland, CA [Podium]
2011 Alexander, K.A. Nuanced Meanings of Black Young Women’s Sexuality: Invisible Class Identities and Sexual Safety Activism. Feminist Transformations: National Women’s Studies Association 2011 Conference, Atlanta, GA [Podium]
2011 Alexander, K.A. Theoretical Pluralism, Sexual Safety, and US Black Women: Where Do We Go from Here? Coming Together: Integrating Sexuality Theory, Research, and Practice, 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Houston, TX [Podium]
2011 Alexander, K.A. Differentiating Meanings of Black Sexuality: Using Narrative Methods to Shift Research Interventions and Education. Coming Together: Integrating Sexuality Theory, Research, and Practice, 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Houston, TX [Podium]
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2010 Alexander, K.A, Beacham, B., Bohinski, J., Brawner, B.M., Clements, C., Everett, J, Gomes, M., McDonald, C.C., Volpe, E. Health equity: Conceptual, Methodological, Linguistic, and Ethical issues. Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, Washington, DC [Podium]
2010 Alexander, K.A, Dovydaitis, T. Lessons Learned: Developing a Pre- and Post-doctoral Level Health Equity Course. Council for the Advancement of Nursing ScienceState of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, Washington, DC [Podium]
2010 Alexander, K.A. Safety and Sexuality: Expressions, expectations, and women-initiated technology use among Black Emerging Adults. Center for AIDS Research Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Network 5th National Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA [Podium]
2009 Alexander, K.A. Socio-cultural Implications of Women-controlled Safe Sex: The state of the Science. Technology, Genetics and Beyond: Research Methodologies of the Future: Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science Conference, Washington, DC [Poster]
2007 Alexander, K.A. RN-Managed Screening & Treatment Program: Increasing Opportunities for Education, Service Access, and HIV prevention. 20th Annual Conference of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Orlando, FL [Podium]
2006 Alexander, K.A. RN-managed Screening & Treatment Program: Increasing Opportunities for Education and Service Access, CDC 2006 STD Prevention Conference, Jacksonville, FL [Poster] Regional
2011 Alexander, K.A. The Co-construction of Trusting Relations: The case of Black Women and their Hair Stylists. Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA [Podium]
2010 Alexander, K.A. The Personal Role of Impersonal Trust: An Examination of Trust Between Beauty Salon Stylists and their Clients. Emerging Ethnographic Results: A Mini-Conference, Philadelphia, PA [Invited]
Local
2015 Alexander, K.A. How to Fill your Love Bag One Day at a Time. National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Baltimore County Health Department Division of HIV/AIDS Services, March 13, 2014 [Invited]
2013 Alexander, K.A. Intimacy and Love at the Crossroads: Effects of Intimate Partner Abuse on Young Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Autonomy. Adolescent Medicine Grand Rounds, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, November 1, 2013 [Invited]
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2012 Alexander, K.A. Love as a Gateway to Nurse Citizenship, Graduation Speaker. University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, May 14, 2012 [Invited]
2013 Sabri, B., Stockman, J.K., Alexander, K.A., St Vil, N.M., Callwood, G.B., Campbell, J.C. Relationship between PTSD Symptoms and Frequency/Severity of Intimate Partner Physical Violence Victimization Women’s Health Research Group Symposium, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD [Poster]
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2014 – 2015 Reviewer, Journal of General Internal Medicine 2013 - 2014 Reviewer, Culture, Health, & Sexuality
2009 - 2014 Reviewer, Qualitative Health Research 2011 - 2012 Reviewer, Sexuality & Culture
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Society/Association membership and leadership
2015 – Present Baltimore-Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Advisory Board, Member 2015 – Present Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, Member
2013 – Present Nursing Network on Violence Against Women, Member
2013 – Present Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, Member 2011 – Present Society for Prevention Research, Member
2005 – Present American Public Health Association, Member 2010 – 2012 National Women’s Studies Association, Member 2009 – 2013 Sigma Theta Tau International, Xi Chapter, Member 2011 – 2014 Eastern Nursing Research Society, Member
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CURRICULUM VITAE Part II
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Fall 2015 NR.110.405.0101 Public Health Nursing, Theory Course Coordinator, 25% effort, Baccalaureate, 78 students
Summer 2015 NR 110.503. 0101 Applications to Research in Practice, Course Co-Coordinator, 25% effort, Masters, 18 students
Spring 2015 NR.110.405.0101 Public Health Nursing, Theory Course Coordinator, 25% effort, Baccalaureate, 62 students
University of Pennsylvania
2012- 2013 EAS 296 Introduction to Sustainable Development – Guatemala
In-country (Guatemala) Health & Sanitation Instructor, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science
2012 HSC 389/PHLT 639 Race, Ethnicity, and Public Health
Adjunct Faculty, La Salle University School of Nursing and Health Sciences
2011 NURS 824 Health Equity: Conceptual, Methodological, Linguistic, and Ethical Issues () Recitation Leader,University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
2009 NURS 104/106 Concepts in Nursing: Healthy Lifestyles I & II Clinical Instructor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing ACADEMIC SERVICE
2015 – Present Baccalaureate Curriculum Committee, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Voting Member
2014 – Present Women’s Health Research Group, East Baltimore Campus, Member
2008-2009 Graduate and Professional Student Association, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, School of Nursing Representative
2009-2010 Doctoral Student Organization, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Co-President
11 Student Mentees
2015 Julie Fields, MD/PhD candidate, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Health, Behavior, and Society Department. Exploring the social context of sex and HIV/STI risk of recently released black men in Baltimore City
Role: Dissertation Committee Member
2015 David Pickles, PhD candidate, Flinders University, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Adelaide, Australia
Role: International Thesis Examiner
2015 Tiara Willie, PhD Student, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT Role: Co-Mentor (with Trace Kershaw, PhD)
2015 Jessica Tillman, PhD Student, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD Role: Alternate Reader, Preliminary Oral Examination
2015 Molly Hartman-O’Connell, BSN Student, Research Honors Program, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
Role: Research Mentor
2015 Erin Petersson, BSN Student, Research Honors Program, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD