St. David's CHPR Colloquia: The Process of Gaining Access to TxDSHS Data: Births, Behaviors, and More

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Scheduled

Topic: The Process of Gaining Access to TxDSHS Data: Births, Behaviors, and More

Date: Friday, March 26, 2021

Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM CST

Zoom Registration Link: Click Here to Register

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Speaker: Lorraine Walker, RN, EdD, MPH
Luci B. Johnson Centennial Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing

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Lorraine O. Walker, RN, EdD, MPH, has had a lifelong focus in maternal and infant health and well-being. She received a BSN from the University of Dayton, as well as a Master’s degree in nursing education with a specialization in maternity nursing and a doctoral degree in philosophy of education from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her dissertation focused on nursing as an academic and practice discipline. She also completed post-doctoral study in educational psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and received the MPH degree in maternal-child health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Walker is a leading expert in nursing on women’s weight during pregnancy and postpartum period. She also has extensive expertise in the areas of behavioral and psychosocial health in childbearing women and new mothers, the motherhood transition, and its implications for maternal and infant health. She is co-author of a text on theory development strategies that is in it 6th edition and used worldwide in nursing graduate programs. She teaches courses in the areas of global health, quantitative data analysis, and philosophic and theoretical foundations of nursing science. Click here to view Dr. Lorraine Walker's Bibliography.

Contact: Call us at (512) 471-9910 or email us at CHPR@mail.nur.utexas.edu.

Event Sponsored by St. David’s CHPR | Co-sponsored by TCRSS

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March 26, 2021, noon to 1 p.m.
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Zoom Meeting
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