Nurse Practitioner Infograph
Feb. 25 — Professor publishes study on trauma-informed research
Leigh Ann Simmons, a professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, published the study, “Reframing advisory as leadership to promote equity in trauma-informed community-engaged research: A case study of Yolo County, CA,” in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. This study examined how renaming a Community Advisory Board to a Community Leadership Board (CLB) could shift power and strengthen community-engaged research. The CLB identified key gaps and influenced multiple areas of implementation that others had missed. These findings highlight how naming and shared leadership can advance equity and accountability in translational research. Leigh Ann’s co-authors include Jasmine Cuellar, coordinator of the Perinatal Origin of Disparities (POD) Center and UC Davis biomedical engineer Jennifer Phipps.
