INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION GRANT REVIEWER

• Swiss National Science Foundation, 2024

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS GRANT REVIEWER  

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Grant Reviewer:

• • CDC-RFA-DP-23-0020 A Strategic Approach to Advancing Health Equity for Priority Populations with or at Risk for Diabetes, 2023. 

 2.  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Grant Reviewer:

• • MAHA ELEVATE (Make America Healthy Again: Enhancing Lifestyle and Evaluating Value-based Approaches Through Evidence) Model grant, 2026

3.  HRSA Grant Reviewer:

•  HRSA-26-062.  Quality Improvement Fund – Improving Access to Dental Services for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (QIF-DNDD). 08/10/ 2026 – 08/13/ 2026

• HRSA-24-098 - Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR)-Workforce Expansion Program (WEP). 06/18/2024- 12/31/2024. 

• HRSA-23-014 - Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Program. 02/22/2023-12/31/2023. 

• HRSA-21-020 - Nursing Workforce Diversity (NWD) Program.  01/28/2021-12/31/2021

 4. Center for Dementia Respite Innovation grant program Grant Reviewer. 2025, 2026

5.  National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Grant Reviewer, 

• • •  NAM Healthy Longevity Grand Prize, 2026. 

    • NAM Healthy Longevity Catalyst, 2020-present

Professional Organization

1. American Association of College of Nursing Grant Reviewer: 

• Faculty Scholars Grant, 2025

2. American Public Health Association, 2022-present 

• APHA Kaiser Permanente Community Health Leadership Scholarship

• APHA/Kaiser Permanente Community Health Scholarship

3. Southern Nursing Research Society (SNRS). 

• SNRS CANS Dissertation Grant, 2025

• SNRS Dissertation Grant -2024, 2025

• SNRS D. Jean Wood Nursing Scholarship, 2025

• STTI/SNRS research award, 2026

• SNRS Research Grant applications, 2025

4. Sigma Theta Tau International Research Grant . 2025

• Reviewer and Endorser (2023), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Publisher. Book title: Population-Based Public Health Clinical Manual  -The Henry Street Model for Nurses (4th ed.) authored by Schoon, P., & Porta, C., 2023. 

• Reviewer (2023), Jones & Bartlett Learning Publisher, Book title: Caring for the Vulnerable: Perspectives in Nursing Theory, Practice, and Research (5th ed.), 2023.

•  Reviewer (2023), Cognella Publisher. Book title: Nursing Theory: A Practical Tool for the Advanced Practice Nurse in the Post Pandemic Era, 2023 

• Book Proposal Reviewer, Springer Publishing Company, 2020-present. 

• Co-Chair, Culture Race Equity Inclusion Diversity and Enhancing Belonging Committee, Association of Community Health Nurse Educator, 2024-PRESENT

• Chair, Mental Health/Psychiatric Research and Improvement Group, Southern Nurses Research Society, 2024-PRESENT

• Co-chair, Membership Sub-Committee, Southern Nurses Research Society, 2023-PRESENT  

• Georgia State Liaison Officer, Southern Nurses Research Society, 2021- 2024

• Co-chair, Culture, Race. Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Enhanced Belonging Taskforce, Association of Community Health Nurse Educator, 2023-2024  

• Co-chair, Program planning committee, American Public Health Association, PHN, 2025-present

• Active Member, Public Health Nurse Research Committee, American Public Health Association, 2021-present

• Active Member: American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing; Aging and Public Health Groups

• Active Member: Sigma Theta Tau International, Alpha Epsilon Chapter and Pi Gamma Pi Chapter