Just published in the January, 2022 issue of Nursing Outlook: The Impact on Organizations, Individuals, and Care When Nurses Are Also Family Caregivers. Research conducted in partnership with Purdue and Johns Hopkins schools of nursing and Rush University Medical Center. More info about our research partners below. Read more about our advocacy work here.
Director of Nursing Research and Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center
Dr. Janice Phillips is an experienced clinician, researcher, educator, nurse regulator, author, and public policy advocate in the health care arena. As the Director of Nursing Research and Health Equity at Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Phillips serves as a system wide leader in supporting health equity as a shared goal and integrating health equity across the Rush Health system’s training, research, and clinical endeavors. She is the author of over 100 publications and five edited textbooks. Her co-edited book “Health Equity and Nursing: Achieving Health Equity through Policy, Population Health and Interprofessional Collaboration, received a five-star review from Doody’s Review Service and is in 91 libraries worldwide. Her OpEds on health disparity and equity issues have appeared in Scientific American, the Hill, and U.S. News and World Report, to name a few. As a recipient of numerous awards including the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award and the Nursing Spectrum Advancing and Leading the Profession Award. In 2000, Dr. Phillips was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing for her distinguished contributions to reducing breast cancer disparities. Dr. Phillips holds a BSN from North Park College, an MS in Community Health from St. Xavier School of Nursing, and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Illinois, College of Nursing.
Assistant Professor, Purdue University School of Nursing
Dr. Xu’s research is focused on chronic disease management and family caregiving across the chronic disease trajectory (diagnosis to the end of life). Specifically, her program of research centers on improving health outcomes for unpaid family caregivers who work outside of the home. She is developing sustainable interventions to maximize existing support structures and enhancing workplace policies to support working caregivers. Her work represents the intersection between chronic disease management, family dynamics, workforce, and policy research. She uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs. Outside of this research focus, she has a passion for developing nursing science globally. She serves as a Board Member for the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN). As a former American Academy of Nursing Jonas Policy Scholar (2015-2017), she has an interest in health policy and currently teaches courses on this topic.
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Ginger C. Hanson is engaged in research on quantitative methods, occupation health psychology, work-life integration, and workplace violence. Dr. Hanson earned her PhD in systems science: psychology and her master’s in applied industrial/organizational psychology at Portland State University. Her dissertation used a multi-level design to examine both the supervisor and employee-level factors related to family-supportive supervision and work-family conflict.