Veronica P. Njie-Carr, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FWACN

• Associate Professor
  Organizational Systems and Adult Health

Location:

Room 465C, School of Nursing Building

Phone:

410-706-4808

Email:

vnjiecarr@umaryland.edu

• Post Doctoral fellowship, Multidisciplinary Health Disparities Research, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
• PhD, Nursing Science, The Catholic University of America, 2007
• MSN, Nursing, The Catholic University, 1996
• BSN, Nursing, Howard University, 1992
• Diploma, Nursing, Gambia College and Midwifery, 1985

• Date:

  2018 - 2020

  Title:

  Impact of Culturally-specific Danger Assessment on Safety, Mental Health and Empowerment

  Sponsoring Organization:

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  Role:

• Date:

  2016 - 2018

  Title:

  Impact of Culturally-specific Danger Assessment on Safety, Mental Health and Empowerment

  Sponsoring Organization:

  Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

  Role:

  Principal

• Date:

  2018 - 2019

  Title:

  Improving Health for All of Us in Baltimore and Beyond (All of Us Research Program)

  Sponsoring Organization:

  AACN

  Role:

• Systematic cross-cultural investigations to reduce contextual and structural health disparities among women of African descent who are at risk or living with HIV.
  Specific to cultural, social, behavioral, and biomedical factors of HIV-related disparities.
  mHealth interventions to address HIV related disparities.
  Global health and related disparities.
  
  Evaluation of teaching effectiveness.

• Duration:

  2016 - 2020

  Title:

  Impact of Culturally-specific Danger Assessment on Safety, Mental Health and Empowermen

  Description:

  The goal of this multi-site, multiphase, interdisciplinary, two-phase sequential mixed methods study is to increase safety and improve mental health outcomes among high-risk and underserved abused immigrant, refugee, and indigenous women.
  
  

  Status:

  On-Going

• Njie-Carr, V. P. (2020, February). Disparities in the academy: Accounting for the elephant. (978-1-6461-0641-7). Pittsburg, PA, United States: Dorrance Publisher, Inc.
• Njie-Carr, V. P. & (2019, November). The syndemic interaction of intimate partner violence, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV infection among African American women: Best practices and strategies. . Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. doi:doi:10.1080/10926771.2019.1667464
• Njie-Carr, V. P., Sabri, B., Messing, J. T., Ward, A., Johnson-Agbakwu, C., Burnette, C., et al (2019, September 24). Methodological and Ethical considerations in research with immigrant and refugee survivors of Intimate partner violence. Interpersonal Violence. doi:10.1177/0886260519877951
• Sabri, B., Njie-Carr, V. P., Messing, J. T., Glass, N., Hanson, G., Brockie, T., et al (2019, January (1st Quarter/Winter)). A culturally-tailored weWomen and ourCircle online intervention for safety, mental health and empowerment of abused immigrant, refugee and indigenous women: The study protocol. Clinical Trials.
• Njie-Carr, V. P., Adeyeye, O., Zhu, S., Sanneh, K. & Ludeman, E. (2018, November). Evaluating Relevance of Nursing Theories in Cross-Cultural and International Contexts. JNBNA.
• Sabri, B., N, N., Njie-Carr, V. P., Shah, C., Messing, J., Ward-Lasher, A., et al (2018, August). Multilevel Risk and Protective Factors for Intimate Partner Violence among African, Asian and Latina Immigrant and Refugee Women: Perceptions of Effective Safety Planning Interventions. Race and Social Problems.
• Njie-Carr, V., Jones-Parker, H., Massey, C., Baker, D. & Nganga-Good, C. (2018, November). Leveraging Community Engagement in the Development of a Health Application for Older Women with HIV. JOGNN.
• Njie-Carr, V. P., Ludeman, E., Lee, M. C., Dordunoo, D., Trocky, N. & Jenkins, L. S. (2017, March 1). An Integrative Review of Flipped Classroom Teaching Models in Nursing Education.. Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 33 (2), 133-144. doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.07.001

See a full list of published work.

• Year:

  2019

  Title:

  Beyond the Checked Box – Diversity in Black

  Conference/Meeting Name:

  ISLSI Black History Month Event

  Sponsoring Organization:

  ISLSI-UMB

  Location:

  Baltimore MD United States

• Year:

  2018

  Title:

  Cross-Sectional Predictors of Neurocognitive and Physical Function in Older Women with HIV Infection. The Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)

  Conference/Meeting Name:

  SBM

• Year:

  2018

  Title:

  Engendering resilience to survive in the lives of abused immigrant and Refugee women: A grounded-theory study

  Sponsoring Organization:

  Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International (NNVAWI) Conference

  Location:

  Ontario Canada

• Year:

  2018

  Title:

  Common and culturally specific factors related to intimate partner violence among immigrant and refugee women: Implications for safety planning

  Conference/Meeting Name:

  Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International (NNVAWI) Conference

  Location:

  Ontario Canada

• Year:

  2018

  Title:

  Faculty Mentorship Workshop: Planning, Implementing, Evaluation, and Lessons Learned

  Conference/Meeting Name:

  Mentoring Program Training Workshop

  Sponsoring Organization:

  Institute for Educators - UMBSON

  Location:

  Baltimore MD

• Year:

  2017

  Title:

  HIV CARE in Real Time

  Conference/Meeting Name:

  ANAC Conference: Innovations on the Road to end HIV Epidemic: Update on Technologies, Modalities and Prevention

  Sponsoring Organization:

  ANAC Chesapeake

• HIV and related disparities; Women's health; Global health; Cross-cultural research

• Research Methods for Evidence-Based Practice
  Biostatistics for Evidence-Based Practice
  Adult Health Nursing
  Health Assessment Across the Lifespan

• Name:

  Fellow Leadership Institute

  Sponsoring organization:

  Society of Behavioral Medicine

  Date:

  March 2019

• Name:

  Butler-Williams Scholar's Award

  Sponsoring organization:

  National Institute of Aging

  Date:

  July 2016