Grants and Research Office

School of Nursing Postdoctoral Fellow

Jennifer C. Robinson, PhD, RN
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Health Promotion/Risk Reduction

Telephone: (734) 763-7845
FAX: (734) 647-9325
jrbn@umich.edu

Education
PhD (Nursing), The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 2006
MSN (Adult Health & Nursing Education), The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, 1997
BS (Nursing), Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, 1995
Diploma, Charity Hospital School of Nursing, New Orleans, LA, 1980

Research Interests
Physical activity, health behavior, cardiovascular health disparities, neighborhood context, the built environment, and social and environmental determinants of health and health behaviors

Current Research
Physical activity of African Americans as a function of social status and neighborhood context (J. Robinson, Principal Investigator).
My current research utilizes a geographic information system (GIS) to spatially locate participants into neighborhoods (US Census block groups) and multilevel statistical models to investigate the social and neighborhood contexts and their relationship to two types of physical activity (active living and sports & exercise) using data from the Jackson Heart Study (JHS). The JHS is a prospective cohort study with an enrollment of 5302 African Americans residing in the three counties surrounding and including Jackson, Mississippi. The JHS is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health with the primary purpose of investigating possible causes for the excess burden of cardiovascular disease in African Americans.

Description of Socioeconomic Status in the Jackson Heart Study (S. Wyatt, Principal Investigator).

Epidemiology of Physical Activity in the Jackson Heart Study (P. Dubbert, Principal Investigator).

The Relationship between Neighborhood and the Prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease in the Jackson Heart Study (M. Simms, Principal Investigator).

Geographic variation in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease and select risk factors among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study (D.M. Hickson, Principal Investigator)

Current Funding
2006 - 2008 Health Promotion/Risk Reduction Interventions (T32) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. University of Michigan School of Nursing, NINR (C. Loveland-Cherry, Principal Investigator).