![]() ![]() Her planned doctoral research is to examine the community food environment in an economically disadvantaged rural Appalachian area, to identify influences on food choices that may lead to obesity and other health conditions. Thatcher’s research interest is community-level interventions to prevent and reduce chronic disease in underserved communities. ![]() She also received her BSN and MSN in Community/Public Health Leadership at UVa. Louis.Įmail: Thatcher is a PhD student at the University of Virginia (UVa) School of Nursing. She earned her doctorate at Boston University and did postdoctoral work in psychiatric epidemiology at Washington University in St. Kulbok holds a BS in Nursing and an MSN in Community Health Nursing from Boston College. She also completed a four-year term on the ANA, Congress of Nursing Practice and Economics. ![]() She previously served as President-Elect and President of the ACHNE, and member and Chair of the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations. Kulbok currently serves as the Chair of the American Nurses Association (ANA) workgroup to revise the Public Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Prior to her faculty appointment at UVa, she was a faculty member at the Catholic University of America and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was project director of community/public health nursing AEN training grants. While at UVa, she has co-directed two advanced education nursing (AEN) training grants: the first was focused on distance education and leadership in Health Systems Management (HSM) and Public Health Nursing (PHN), the second used distance technology to prepare rural nursing leader in HSM, PHN, and Psychiatric Mental Health. Kulbok is the principal investigator of an inter-professional, cross-institution, community-based participatory research project funded by the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to design a substance use prevention program with youth, parents, and community leaders in a rural tobacco-growing county. She is Chair of the Department of Family, Community, and Mental Health Systems and Coordinator of the Public Health Nursing Leadership track of the MSN Program. Email: Kulbok is a Professor of Nursing and Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia (UVa). ![]()
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