BATON ROUGE - Cheryl Taylor, Southern University School of Nursing’s Director of Nursing Research, is the recipient of the “Leadership Award” from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The award is part of the Centers’ Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) initiative’s 10 years of progress toward eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.
“The growing network of unsung champions like you and others in key policy positions across the country has made this progress possible,” an announcement from the (REACH) initiative said.
Since 1999, the REACH program has contributed significant evidence-based health outcomes and community-based participatory approaches to the goal of advancing health equity.
The REACH award is another major citation that Taylor has won over the past year. She was chosen the 2009 international winner of the prestigious Daniel J. Pesut “Spirit of Renewal Award” for Nursing Excellence from the Honor Society of Nursing of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI).
The Louisiana Nurses Foundation and the Louisiana State Nurses Association recently named Taylor the recipient of the ‘Outstanding Nurse Researcher’ Award. The award recognizes a registered nurse who has led significant formal or informal nursing research which has impacted healthcare or the community. The LNF and LSNA also named Southern’s School of Nursing the 2010 “Nursing School of the Year.”
Dr. Taylor teaches research, philosophy of science, and health policy at Southern. She also chairs nursing research dissertation committees focused on metabolic syndrome, depression, obesity, and other chronic conditions in African-American women.
Posted By: LaKeeshia Giddens
Tuesday, May 4th 2010 at 12:04PM
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