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JENNIFER FOSTER, PhD, CNM, MPH Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives

Associate Clinical Professor Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Associate Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health Associate Faculty, Department of Anthropology

Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 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 2016 2015

Fellowship of the American Academy of Nursing Fulbright Scholar Award, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Midwifery for Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Chile

2015 2014

Nominee for Outstanding Professor of the Year. Council for Advancement in Support of Teaching (CASE) 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 Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. 2010 NIH 3rd Annual Training Institute. Community-Based Participatory Approaches to

Sustaining Healthy Families and Multicultural Communities.

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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 Assoc. Prof. Global Health (secondary) RSPH, Emory University 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 Sept., 1981 Oct., 1977 Sept., 1976

Nurse-Midwife Home Visit Nurse U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Staff Nurse

Peninsula Gen. Hospital, MD Visiting Nurse Ass’n. Batimore, MD Guatemala, Central America Mt. Zion Hospital, San Francisco, CA

SCHOLARSHIP: GRANTS AND OTHER FUNDING

Research Grants Currently Funded

Implementation Science in Maternal and Perinatal Care: A Joint Mexico/U.S. Project. (PI: Dr. Alfred Brann) Role: Key Personnel. Assessment of nursing and traditional midwifery interface in public perinatal system, Puebla, Mexico. Funding Agency: Inter-American Development Bank. Total costs: $125,000 (planning grant) Funding Period: 09/28/2015-11/30/2016.

Atlanta Partnership for Women’s Health (PI: Jemea Dorsey) Role: Co-I, Development of Emory School of Nursing role in 4 agency partnership. Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Grant Number: 1 PAWOS000020-01-00. Total costs: $1.5 million. Funding Period: 10/01/2014-8/31/2017.

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Research Grants Completed

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. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: U.S. Department of State, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Fulbright Award. Total costs: $17,500 and housing and travel. Funding period: 07/01/2015-12/31/2015. The Development and Pilot Testing of a Health Communication Tool to Promote Improved Reproductive Health Behaviors in Low-Income Women of Color. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: Clinical and Translational Science Institute, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resource. Grant Number: UL1 RR025008. Total costs: $25,000. Funding Period: 01/2013-04/2014. Understanding Health Seeking Behavior of Women at Risk for Poor Pregnancy Outcomes: Women’s Decisions to Change Prenatal Providers and Delivery Hospitals. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: Alpha Epsilon Research Grants, Sigma Theta Tau. Total costs: $1,000. Funding Period: 11/30/2012-11/30/2013. Community-Derived Questions to Unravel Health Disparities. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: Emory University Race and Difference Initiative. Total costs: $5,000. Funding Period: 12/2011-08/2012. CBPR with Community Workers and Health Providers in the Dominican Republic. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health. Grant Number: 1R21 NR010210-01A1. Total costs: $275,000. Funding Period: 07/01/2008-06/30/2011. Protecting the Next Generation: A Community Partnered Nursing Intervention to Promote Sexual Health Among Latinos- A Pilot Study. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Nursing. Total costs: $3,000. Funding Period: 03/2005-03/2006. The Role of Culture In the Implementation Of Recommended Practices Of Skilled Birth Attendants in the Dominican Republic. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: The Healey Endowment, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Total costs: $10,000 Funding Period: 06/2004-06/2005.

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Educational, Training, and Program Grants Funded

Rural Georgia Nurse-Midwifery Education Program (PI: Dr. Judith Wold) Foster Role: Co-Development of Post-Graduate On-line Nurse-Midwifery Courses. Funding Agency: The March of Dimes. Total costs: $27,500. Funding Period: 01/01/2015-01/01/2016. Expanding the Boundaries of Women’s Health: A Collaborative Advanced Practice Nursing Program Serving Western Massachusetts. (PI: Dr. Jennifer Foster) Funding Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Advanced Education Nursing Grant Number: D09HP05314-01-00. Total costs: $750,000. Funding Period: 7/2005-7/2008.

SCHOLARSHIP: PUBLICATIONS Original Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

1. Weeks F., Pantoja L., Ortiz J., Foster, J., Cavada, G., Binfa, L. Labor and birth care

satisfaction associated with medical interventions and accompaniment during labor among Chilean women. (2016). Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, doi: 10.1111/jmwh.12499.*

2. Binfa, L., Pantoja, L., Ortiz, J., Cavada, G., Schindler, P., Burgos, R., Melo, C., Pereira, LF.,De

Oliveira, M., Valli,L, Schlenker, R., Sanchez,V., Solis, M., Cruz, B., Torres,ML., Cillo, A., Lofeudo, S., Zapiola, S., Weeks, F., Foster, J. (2016). Midwifery practice and maternity services: A multisite descriptive study in Latin America and the Caribbean. Midwifery, 20, 218-225.*

3. Dalmida SG., Amerson R., Foster, J., Magowen M., McWhinney-Dehaney, L, Nicholas, P.,

Pehrson K., Leffers JM. (2016). Volunteer service and service learning: Opportunities, partnerships, and United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. PMID: 27351366. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12226.*

4. Manning K., Abraham C., Soo Kim J., Foster J., Lepp E., O`Neill L., Lund M., Batisky D.,

Pittman R., Branch W. (2016). Preparing the ground for interprofessional education: Getting to know each other. Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/journalofhumanitiesinrehabilitation/2016/06/20/preparing-the-ground-for-interprofessional-education-getting-to-know-each-other/.

5. Binfa, L., Pantoja, L., Ortiz, J., Gurovich, M., Cavada, G., Foster, J. (2016). Assessment of the

implementation of the model of integrated and humanized midwifery health services in Chile. Midwifery, 35, 53-61. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2016.01.018*

6. Foster, J., Pullen, S. (2016). International service learning in the Dominican Republic: An

asynchronous pilot in interprofessional education. Journal of Interprofessional Care. PMID: 26852786

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7. Foster, J., Miller, L., Isbell, S., Shields, T., Worthy, N., Dunlop, AL. (2015). mHealth to promote pregnancy and interconception health among African-American women at risk for adverse birth outcomes: A pilot study. mHealth, http://www.themhealth.org/article/view/8577/9236. *

8. Foster, J, DeLibertis, J, Nixon, A. (2015). Forging our future as a diverse and inclusive

midwifery profession. Commentary. Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. PMID:

26625170. doi: 10.1111/jmwh.12402.

9. Kaiser BN, Keys HM, Foster J, Kohrt BA. (2015). Social stressors, social support, and mental health among Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Revista Panamericana Salud Publica, 38(2):157-162. #

10. 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. *#

11. 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, 16 (4), 601-608. PMID: 26113496, doi: 10.1177/1524839914557033*#

12. 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. #

13. 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. PMID: 24725218. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2014.907389 * #

14. Foster, J., Gossett,S., Burgos,R., Cáceres,R., Tejada, C., Dominguez García, L., Rosario, A., Almonte, A., 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, 26(3), 254-260. PMID: 24793488, doi: 10.1177/1043659614524252 * #

15. Dickerson, A., Foster, J., and Andes, K. (2013). A profile of midwifery in Paraguay.

Midwifery, 30(10), 1048-1055. http://dx.doi.org/10/1016/j.midw.2013.10.011. * #

16. 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 * #

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17. 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, 70(2), 350-359.doi: 10.1111/jan.12197. *#

18. Wheeler R., Foster, J., and Hepburn K. (2013). The experiences of internationally educated

nurses in the Southeastern United States. International Nursing Review. 60(3), 397-404. doi: 10.1111/inr.12023 *#

19. 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. #

20. 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.#

21. 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. #

22. 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. PMCID: PMC2946473. DOI:

10.1016/j.midw.2010.06.001*#

23. 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. *

24. 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 https://discovery.indstate.edu/jcehe/index.php/joce/article/view/80

25. 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.

26. 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. PMID: 18340090. DOI: 10.1177/1524839907307675

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27. 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. PMID: 17826714. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2007.03.022

28. 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. PMID: 17149031 #

29. 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.* #

30. Foster, J., Regueira, Y., Burgos RI., Sanchez AH. (2005). Midwifery Curriculum for Auxiliary

Maternity Nurses: A case study in the Dominican Republic. Journal of Midwifery Women’s Health, 50, e45-49. PMID: 15973257. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2005.02.017*#

31. 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. PMID: 15337277. DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2004.01.004 *

32. 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 Chapters

1. 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.), Participatory Action Research (pp. 99-116). New York: Springer Publishing Co.

2. 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. (Awarded 3rd prize AJN Book of the year for professional development).

3. 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. In R. White (ed.) Global Case Studies In Maternal and Child Health, (pp. 25-50). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

4. Krutsky, C., Foster, J., Kleinberg, N., Morris, A., and Singleton, K. (1997). HIV infection in women. In Varney, H. (Ed.), Varney's Midwifery, (pp. 181-200). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

Book Reviews

1. 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.

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2. 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.

3. Schuiling, K., & Foster, J. (2007). [Book Review, Disease Priorities in Developing Countries].

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, 52(4), 422-423. Submitted manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals:

1. Schindler, P., Burgos, R., Vuong, K., Lerner, H., Evangelista, E., Tejada, C., Rodriguez, FJ., Peralta, L, Foster, J. The process of intrapartum care among skilled birth attendants in the Dominican Republic and maternal perceptions of well-being during labor and delivery: A case report. Under revision for the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, August 27, 2016. *

2. Castro, F., Gomez, B., Carrasco, A., Foster, J. Sexuality behind bars in the female central

penitentiary of Santiago, Chile: Unlocking the gendered binary. Nursing Inquiry. Under revision August 2, 2016. *

3. Castillo S., Oyarzo, S., Espinoza, M., Rojas, A. M., Castillo, M., Romero L., Foster, J., Hawes G.

The implementation of multiprofessional courses among health sciences faculty in Chile. Journal of Interprofessional Care. Revision submitted January 26, 2015. *

.*=data-based research #=student co-authors

SCHOLARSHIP: PRESENTATIONS

International Presentations

1. Foster, J. (2016). Birth at the Crossroads of Cultures: The Intersection of Women’s Experience and Health Provider Practice. Session Chair and Discussant. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 1, 2016.

2. Foster, J., Schindler, P. (2016). Assessing Quality of Care and Women´s Experience of

Wellbeing during Labor and Delivery in the Dominican Republic, Part I: Global Intersections Related to Childbirth in the Latin Caribbean. Presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC Canada, April 1, 2016.

3. Straus, A., Foster, J. (2016) Assessing Quality of Care and Women´s Experience of Wellbeing

during Labor and Delivery in the Dominican Republic, Part II: A Secondary Analysis of Providers, Birth Practices, and Maternal Wellbeing. Presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC Canada, April 1, 2016.

4. Foster, J. (2015). Community-based participatory research: An example from the Dominican

Republic. Presented at the IVth International Research Conference entitled, “La Salud Sexual y Reproductiva – Perspectiva de las Usuarias y Usuarios.” The Catholic University of Los Angeles of Chimbote, Peru, November 29, 2015.

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5. Foster, J. (2014).Empowerment of the Obstetric Nurse in Latin America: The Challenges.

Presented at the 8th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Developing Countries. Cancún, México.

6. Foster, J. (2014). Impact and importance of nurses and midwives on the delivery of maternal

and perinatal care: Successful experiences. Presented as part of a panel at the 8th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Developing Countries. Cancún, México.

7. Foster, J., Burgos, R., Schindler, P., Evangelista, E., Polanco, L., Rogdriguez, F., Vuong, K.,

Lerner, H., Amonte A., & Guttierez, R. (2014). Midwifery Models in Latin America and the Caribbean Countries: A descriptive study. [Presented for the Dominican Republic, along with Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, and Brazil.] Presented at the 30th Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives, Prague, June 2014.

8. Dickerson, A., Foster, J., & Andes, K. (2014). A Profile of Midwifery in Paraguay. Presented at

the 30th Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives, Prague.

9. Binfa, L, & Foster, J. (2013, April). “Introducción Red Latinoamericana de Investigación para la alianza colaborativa de comunidades de Enfermería y Partería. Experiencia de Trabajo Multicéntrico”. [Eng. Introduction to the Latin American Research Network for the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery: Experience in multi-site Research]. Presented at the Fourth Regional Conference for the Americas of the International Confederation of Midwives, Quito, Ecuador, S.A.

10. Foster, J. (2013, April). “El rol de la enfermería y partería en el mejoramiento de calidad de

servicios materno infantiles a través de la investigación participativa basada en la comunidad”. [Eng. The Faculty of nursing and midwifery in improving quality care for mothers and infants by means of community-based, participatory research.] Presented at the Fourth Regional Conference for the Americas of the International Confederation of Midwives, Quito, Ecuador, S.A.

11. Foster, J. (2012, November). “Participación Social en Salud: Una investigación participativa

basada en la comunidad en la República Dominicana.” Presented at the II International Symposium of Social Participation in Health. National Health Administration, Medellín, Colombia.

12. Foster, J. (2011, July). “A Global Community-Based Participatory Research Collaboration to

Improve Maternal Newborn Health Care in the Dominican Republic.” Presented at the 22nd International Research Congress, Sigma Theta Tau International. Cancún, Mexico.

13. Foster, J. and Burgos, R. (2011, May). “A Nurse-Community Partnership to Improve Maternal-

Newborn Health Care in the Dominican Republic.” Presented at the Community University Expo 2011, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

14. Foster, J.(2011). “Un Piloto de Servicios de Calidad: Comunicación entre Equipo Comunitario y

Hospitalario.” Presentation to the community of San Francisco de Macoris on the outcomes of

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the pilot project to implement teamwork and communication between community leaders and nurses. San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic.

15. Foster, J. (2010). “Peces y Piedras en Seguir la Implementación de Proyectos de Investigación.”

Workshop conducted with midwifery faculty at the Escuela de Obstetricia, University of Chile, Santiago.

16. Foster, J. (2010). “La Implementación de Investigación Participativa en Salud: Una Alianza de

Enfermería con Comunidad.” Presentation to the Emory/Paraguay Workshop on Research Development in Paraguay, Asuncion.

17. Hall, P, and Foster, J. (2010). "An evaluation of women's attitudes towards normal birth and

cesarean deliveries in the Dominican Republic". Normal Labour & Birth: 5th Research Conference. The Benefits & Challenges of Preserving Physiologic Birth. Presented by Priscilla Hall at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

18. Foster, J. (2010). “Clausura de Investigación Participativa Comunitaria entre Líderes y Personal

de Salud.” Presented to the Hospital San Vicente de Paúl and Centro Universitario Región del Nordeste, San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic.

19. Burgos, R., Foster, J. (2010). “Etapa final de investigación participativa entre personal de salud

del Hospital San Vicente de Paul y su comunidad.” Second Annual Research Day. School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

20. Burgos, R., Tejada, C., Cáceres, R., Foster, J., Chiang, F., and Hall, P. (2010). “Investigación

Participativa Con Líderes Comunitarios y Personal de Salud en la Republica Dominicana.” Poster presentation at the 13th International Research Conference. Institute of Health Carlos III, Alicante, Spain.

21. Foster, J. and Burgos, R. (2009). “Quality Improvement Based on Community-based

Participatory Research in the Dominican Republic.” Presented at the 24th Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses, Durban, South Africa.

22. Foster, J. “Cultivar un Clima de Calidad y Calidez en Servicios de Salud.” (2009)(English

translation: The Cultivation of a Climate of Quality and Warmth in Health Services.) Presented to the Faculty and Students at the Centro Universitario Regional del Nordeste of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic.

23. Foster, J. (2006, April). “Narratives of Gender and Health among Puerto Ricans: A pilot to

create community researchers to formulate the direction of research inquiry,” presented with Kari Stanek at the Annual Nursing Research Day of the Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, Holyoke, Massachusetts, April 5, 2006, and by Kari Stanek at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

24. Houston, J, and Foster, J. (2004, April). “Midwives for Midwives: Making Birth Safe and

Keeping It Sacred,” presented at the first Americas Regional Conference of the International Confederation of Midwives, Trinidad and Tobago.

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25. Foster, J. (1993, June). "Reframing Peer Review," International Confederation of Midwives, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

National Presentations

1. Foster, J. (2015). “Traversing Collaborative Boundaries: In Discipline, Authorship, and Legitimacy, A Roundtable Discussion.” Panel discussion at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, PA., March 27, 2015.

2. Foster, J. (2015, March). “Rocks in the Road: Resisting Inequality in a U.S. –Dominican

Republic Nursing Academic Partnership.” Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, PA., March 26, 2015.

3. Foster, J. (2014, February). “The Evolution of a Sustainable, Service-Learning Partnership

between Nurses from the United States and the Dominican Republic 2004-2014: A Ten Year Summary and Future Plans.” Poster presentation for the Nursing Leadership in Global Health Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

4. Dalmida, S., Perry, S., Nicholas, P., Foster, J., Wright, B., Pehrson, K., and Amerson, R. (2013,

November). “International Nursing Service Learning: At Home and Abroad”. Presented at the 42nd Biennial Convention, Sigma Theta Tau International, Indianapolis, IN.

5. Foster, J. and Heath, A. (2013). “Global cultural immersion for nursing and midwifery

students: the development and sustainability of international partnership sites for the 21st Century”. On panel entited, Global Partnerships for Midwifery Education. Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Nashville, TN.

6. Micikas, M., Lopez-Salm, A., Lungelow, D., Weiss, and Foster, J. (2013). “Effectiveness of a

Community Health Worker Intervention for Diabetes Self-management among the Tz’utuil Maya of San Pablo and San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala”. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Nurses’ Research Society. Little Rock, AR.

7. Foster, J., Burgos, R., and Gossett, S. (2012). “The Development of Research Capacity through

Community-based Participatory Research in the Dominican Republic: An International Nursing Collaboration.” Poster presented at the 13th Colloquium of Pan American Nursing Research, Miami, FL.

8. Settle, X. (Emory U), Burgos, R., Rivera, Y., Duarte, K., Alavarado, F., Rodriguez, N., Tejada, C., Caceres, R., Garcia, M., Reyes, L. (Hospital San Vicente de Paul), and Foster, J. (Emory U) (2012). “Collaboration across Borders: Capturing and Maintaining Data on Kangaroo Mother Care in the Dominican Republic.” Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Baltimore, MD.

9. Foster, J. (2011). “A Midwifery Design to Improve Maternal Newborn Health in the Dominican

Republic.” Presented at 56th Annual Meeting of Nurse-Midwives, San Antonio, TX.

10. Foster, J. (2011). “What are the social change outcomes of community-based participatory research? A case study in the Dominican Republic.” In panel, “Using applied anthropology to

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expose, illuminate and find meaning.” Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, WA.

11. Foster, J. and Heath, A. (2010). “Unmasking fear and creating hope in maternity care: results

from community–based participatory research in the Dominican Republic.” Part of Maternal Mortality Case Studies, ES44D. Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Washington, D.C.

12. Vena, C., Foster, J., Yeager, K. & Lamb, G. (2010).“Teaching Evidence–Based Practice

Competencies to Undergraduate Students”. Poster presentation at the QSEN National Forum, Westminster, CO.

13. Chiang, F. & Foster, J. (2010). "Team member perspectives on community-based participatory research in the Dominican Republic." Poster presented at the 11th Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Conference, Portland, OR.

14. Foster, J. and Chiang, F. (2009). “The Intersection of Medical Anthropology and Midwifery in the Quest for Global Maternal-Newborn Health.” Poster presentation at the Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating 50 years of Interdisciplinarity Conference. Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

15. Foster, J. (2009). “Community-based Participatory Research in Maternal Health in the

Dominican Republic.” Presented at the Global Health and Innovation Summit. 6th Annual Unite for Sight Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

16. Foster, J. and Dynes, Michelle. (2008). International Health Research Forum. “Challenges and

Rewards in the Conduct of International Health Research.” Education Session 503 at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Boston, MA.

17. Foster, J. and Heath, Annemarie. International Roundtable. (2008). “New Directions for

Proyecto ADAMES.” Education Session 401 at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Boston, MA.

18. Foster, J. (2007). Panel on Medicine, Technology and Science, Society for Medical

Anthropology. Panel title: “Techniques of self: The body, violence and bio-politics in WHO Millennium Development Goals in Maternal and Child Health and HIV/AIDS.” Panel presentation, “Maternal-Newborn Mortality and Compassion Fatigue: A Legacy of Colonialism in the Dominican Republic.” American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

19. Foster, J. and Heath, A. (2007). “Training Trainers for Doula Care in the Dominican Republic: A

Project in the Dominican Republic to Humanize Birth.” Presentation at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Chicago, IL.

20. Foster, J. “Teen pregnancy: Encountering meaning among girls, boys and their families.”

Keynote address to the Hampden County Network on Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Youth Empowerment, Springfield, MA.

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21. Foster, J., Regueira, Y. and Heath, A. (2006). “Evaluation of Postpartum Bleeding by Maternity

Nurses in the Dominican Republic: Findings of an Ethnographic Analysis of the Decision Making Process.” Poster presentation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Salt Lake City, UT.

22. Foster, J. (2006).“The Value of Experiential Learning and Cultural Immersion in the

Development of Cultural Competence,” presented with Elizabeth Keane at the Annual Nursing Research Day of the Beta Zeta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, Holyoke, MA.

23. Foster, J. “Update on Proyecto ADAMES in the Dominican Republic, the evolution of a

leadership cohort to improve quality of maternity care.” Presentation by Jennifer Foster and Annemarie Heath, to REACH [Residents Educated in Alternative Cultures and Health] at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA.

24. Foster, J. “Maternal Mortality Prevention as a Human Right, - Proyecto ADAMES in the

Dominican Republic,” Presentation by Jennifer Foster to Commonwealth College students traveling abroad, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA.

25. Foster, J. (2005). “Articulation of a Research and Intellectual Trajectory – Four Years Later,”

Invited presentation to the workshop entitled, “Embracing the Faculty of Peer Critique in a Community of Midwifery Science,” held at the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2005. Invitees were the past and present recipients of the Ortho McNeil/ A.C.N.M. Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship.

26. Foster, J. and Heath, A. (2005). “Hospital Birth in the Dominican Republic: Building Midwifery

from the Bottom Up.” Presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Washington, D.C.

27. Foster, J. (2005). “Midwives for Midwives in Guatemala, A Midwifery Model to Train Traditional Midwives in Guatemala,” presented in a panel entitled, Understanding and Applying Midwifery Heritages: Reflections on Global Birth Models. Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM.

28. Foster, J. (2005). “Transforming Maternity Care in the Dominican Republic: An International

Nursing Collaboration,” presented at the 16th International Nursing Research Congress of Sigma Theta Tau, Waikaloa, HI.

29. Foster, J. (2004). “Institutionalized Inequality among the Partners of Adolescent Mothers,”

presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Dallas, TX.

30. Foster, J. "Cultural Sensitivity among Diverse Populations," presentation given in the Topics in Nursing Series at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA.

31. Foster, J. “Bringing Gender into the Discourse about Reproductive Health Disparities”

presented at the annual Beta Zeta (chapter of Sigma Theta Tau) Research Day, Holyoke, Massachusetts.

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32. Foster, J. (2003). “Children as Agents of Alternative Life Narratives among the Partners of

Teen Mothers,” invited presentation by the Council on the Status of Women in Anthropology. 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL.

33. Foster, J. “The Midwifery Model: An Essential Component in the Response to Improving

Women’s Health in the Developing World,” Presented with Jennifer Houston at the Center for International Development colloquium, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

34. Foster, J. (2001). "Postpartum Depression: Psychopharmacological and Sociocultural

Approaches to Treatment" joint presentation with Dr. A.S. Whitman, 46th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Washington, D.C.

35. Foster, J. "Invisible Fathers: Understanding Gender in Adolescent Pregnancy", 44th Annual

Meeting of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Orlando, FL, May, 1999 and the Teen Health Conference in Springfield, MA.

36. Foster, J. (1999). "In the Belly of the Beast: Negotiating Midwifery in the US Hospital," 98th

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.

Local, State, and Regional Presentations

1. Foster, J., (2015). “What will you do for Sigma?” Keynote address for the induction of new members of the Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International. March 19, 2015, Emory University Atlanta, GA.

2. Lewitt, M. J. and Foster, J. (2010).“HIV prevention in a Hispanic community: The use of CBPR

uncovers new insights.” Poster presentation at the QUEST for research excellence conference, sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the CDC, the Atlanta Regional Health Forum and the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Atlanta, GA. Award of Excellence.

3. Chiang, F. and Foster, J. (2010)."Team member perspectives on community-based participatory research in the Dominican Republic." Poster presentation at the first 2010 Joint Conference of the Society for Public Health Education and CDC Prevention Research Centers Program, Atlanta, GA.

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TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Courses Taught

2016 2011 – 2014

NRSG 408 Maternity and Reproductive Health Nursing NRSG 466: Immersion Learning with Underserved Communities

Co-coordinator Faculty

2010 – 2015 NRSG 460/361: Clinical Nursing II/III, Developing Families (Maternity)

Faculty

2010 NRSG 461: Community/Public Health Nursing: Population-Focused Nursing Care

Clinical Instructor

2010 NRSG 371: Professional Development II: Evidence Based Nursing Practice

Faculty

2009, 2012, 2014 NRSG 734: Qualitative Research Methods.

Faculty

2008 – 2016 NRSG 480 Course coordinator, now faculty, International Healthcare Systems: Nursing in the Caribbean

Faculty

2008, 2009, 2012, 2015 NRSG 659 Cultural Humility for Health Care Providers

Faculty

2008, 2009, 2014, 2016 NRSG 482/HH 485 Birth and Global Health.

Faculty

2008 NRSG 592 International Nursing Practice

Faculty

2007 NRSG 460 Clinical Nursing III, Developing Families (Maternity)

Clinical instructor at Northside Hospital

Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Advisement

December 2016 anticipated Dissertation Chair Peter Schindler. Thesis title. “Men’s participation in pregnancy care in high disparity populations.” Dissertation Chair.

May 2015 Dissertation Chair Priscilla Hall. Thesis title: “Keeping it together, falling apart and everything in between: the dynamic experience of childbirth.”

August 2013

Dissertation Chair Mary Jane Lewitt. Thesis title: “Nurse-midwifery in the hospital setting: Exploring evidence based practice."

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May 2014

Dissertation Committee Debbie Stevens. Thesis title: “Caregiver Burden and Racial Discrimination in African Americans: A mixed methods study of chronic stress.”

May 2013 Dissertation Committee Erin Ferranti. Thesis title: “Dietary quality and cardio metabolic risk after Gestational Diabetes.”

May 2012 Dissertation Committee Rebecca Wheeler. Thesis title: “Internationally-educated nurses’ perceptions of agency: implications for patient care and nurse retention.”

Undergraduate Honors Research Advisor

Spring 2015-Spring 2016 Audrey Strauss (Nursing). Analysis of well-being of women in labor in the Dominican Republic.

Spring 2013-Spring 2014 Andrea Avila. (Nursing). Deaths of our mothers: A community’s concerns. Poster Presentation for Southern Nurses Research Society, San Antonio, Texas, February, 2014.

Spring 2012-Spring 2013 Hunter Keys (Dual Degree, Emergency Nurse Practitioner and Environmental Health). How do migrant Haitian-Dominican communities contend with cholera risks following the Hispaniola outbreak of 2010? Assessing risk factors, perceptions of risk, and Dominican immigration law in the Dominican Republic. Thesis advisor.

Spring 2012-Spring 2013 Keys National Presentation: Cholera risks and perceived discrimination in migrant Haitian communities in the Dominican Republic. Presentation at the conference, Environmental Health 2013. Science and Policy to Protect Future Generations. 3-6 March, 2013. Boston, Mass.

Spring 2012-Spring 2013 Mary Micikas. (Nursing). Collaborative Adaptation and Implementation of a Community Health Promoter Intervention for Diabetes Self-Management among the Tz’tujujil Maya of San Pablo and San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala. Funded by the Global Health Institute, Emory University. Poster presentation Southern Nurses Research Society, Little Rock, Arkansas. February 2013, and Emory Annual Research Symposium April 16, 2013.

Spring 2011-Spring 2012 Jodie Simms (Nursing).

Spring 2011-Spring 2012 Marcia Monterroso (Nursing). Patient centered concerns in the safety and humanization of maternity care in the Dominican Republic.

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Spring 2011-Spring 2012 Xanthia Settle (Nursing). Comparative outcomes of preterm infants

with Kangaroo Mother Care in the Dominican Republic.

Spring 2010 Jenny Jia. (Anthropology). The Future of Dais: Traditional birth attendants and biomedical cultural change in Matlab, Bangladesh. (Thesis Chair)

Spring 2010 Fidela Chiang. (Nursing). Team Member Perspectives on Involvement in Community-based Participatory Research in the Dominican Republic.

Master of Public Health Thesis Advisement

December 2015 May 2015 December 2013

Shira EtShalom. (Dual Degree, Family Nurse Practitioner and MPH).

“I wrote the prescription; the patient did the abortion:” Preparation of gynecologists for abortion services in Montevideo before and after 2004. (Advisor with Dr. Roger Rochat). Bethany Kotlar. (MPH). Gynecologists’ decision-making regarding legal abortion provision in Montevideo, Uruguay (Advisor with Dr. Roger Rochat) Hunter Keys. (Dual Degree, Emergency Nurse Practitioner and Environmental Health). Cholera and humiliation in the Dominican Republic: A qualitative study of stigma and psychosocial stress among Haitian migrants. (Advisor with Drs. Matt Freeman and Rob Stephenson).

April 2012 Anissa Dickerson. (Dual degree, Midwifery and Global Health). Promoting Natural Childbirth in Asunción, Paraguay: Assessing the Faculty of Midwives. (Advisor with Dr. Karen Andes).

August 2011 Kari Mae Stanek. (Dual Degree, Women’s Health and Global Health). Narrative accounts of migrant farmworkers in Southeast Georgia. (Advisor with Dr. Karen Andes).

April 2011 Tamar Goldenberg. (Public Health). Reducing Cesarean sections in Gran Asunción, Paraguay: A qualitative needs assessment. (Advisor with Dr. Karen Andes).

Global Health Field Scholars Advisor for Individuals & Interdisciplinary Teams

Fall 2016

Chile. Developing a Collaborative, Practice-Ready Healthcare Workforce: Evaluating Multiple Inter-professional Integrated

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Summer 2016 Summer 2014

Modules (MIIM) at the University of Chile. Global Health Institute for Individual Global Health Field Scholars Project. For Fall, 2016.

Advisor: Jenny Foster. Student: Emma Goldberg, DPT student, School of Medicine

Chile. An Exploration of the Enabling Environment in Midwifery Care: A Qualitative, Comparative Study of Midwifery Practice in Ancud and Coquimbo, Chile. WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for Midwifery at the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Advisor: Jenny Foster, PhD, MPH, CNM.

Students: Jade MacBroom (Nursing);

Nimmy Thomas (Public Health);

Aspen Riser (Public Health);

Rebecca Pancove (Anthropology)

Guatemala. A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach Using a Political Ecology Framework to Study the Links Between Human and Environmental Health in the Tz’utujil Maya Communities of San Pablo and San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala

Advisors: Jenny Foster, PhD, MPH, CNM, Mary Micikas, BSN Students: Kristen Allen (Public Health);

Ioulia Fenton (Anthropology); Deanna Gutierrez (Nursing); Christina Renquist, (Public health)

Uruguay. Evaluation of Implementation, Access, and Acceptability of Abortion Care at the Healthcare Level in Uruguay Following the Procedure’s Decriminalization. Advisors: Roger Rochat, MD,MPH;

Jenny Foster, PhD, MPH, CNM Students: Bethany Kotlar (Candler School of Theology);

Yonah Et Shalom (Nursing and Public Health); Heidi Schroffel (Public Health).

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Summer 2013

Guatemala. The Development of a Tz’utujil Maya Community Informed Reproductive Health Program at the ODIM Clinic of San Pablo and San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala

Advisor: Jenny Foster, PhD, MPH, CNM Students: Jacqui Hurd (Public Health)

Neha Kamat(Anthropology) Aliza Lurie (Nursing) Whitney Miller (Nurse-Midwifery)

Dominican Republic. Birth Outcome Data and Women’s, Physicians’, and Nurses’ Perceptions of the Quality of Maternity Services in Hospital San Vicente de Paul, San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic Advisor: Jenny Foster, PhD, MPH, CNM Students: Peter Schindler (Nursing)

Kim Vuong (Public Health) Hilary Lerner (Anthropology)

Summer 2012

Guatemala. Health Promotion among the Tz’tujujil Maya of San Pablo La Laguna, Guatemala: Collaborative Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Diabetes Health Program for Health Promoters

Advisor: Jenny Foster, PhD, MPH, CNM Students: Mary Micikas (Nursing)

Alyse Lopez-Salm(Public Health) Allison Weis (Physician Assistant) Danielle Lungelow( Nursing)

PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Membership in Professional Organizations

1982 – 2016-2019 2012-2015 2010-Present

American College of Nurse-Midwives Board of Directors, American College of Nurse-Midwives Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion., The American College of Nurse-Midwives Division of Global Health, Research Section

Life Member Region III Representative At large-member

1991 - Present Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society Member

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2013-2015 2011-2013

Governance Committee (elected), Sigma Theta Tau International International Service Learning TaskForce

Member Member

2011-Present Society for Applied Anthropology, Executive

Board of the Council of Nurses in Anthropology. At large member

2007 – 2014

The American Public Health Association

Member

2007 – 2009

Council on the Anthropology of Reproduction, Book Review Committee

Member

2002 - 2004 Council on the Anthropology of Reproduction,

Membership Director and Steering Committee 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

Emory University Service

2013 – 2014 2012-2013

Convener global sub-subcommittee of Learning through Integration, Emory Commission on the Liberal Arts Faculty Life Committee

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Service

2016- 2015-2016 2013-2015

Faculty Coordinator, Global and Community Engagement Lillian Carter Center Admissions Committee, Committee on Clinical Faculty Promotion Curriculum Committee, Admissions Committee, Interprofessional Team Training Day, Committee on Clinical Faculty Promotion

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