Expert Panel on Health Behavior

The Expert Panel on Health Behavior addresses the health needs of populations, providing a forum for nurse leaders to advance evidence-based innovations to promote healthy lifestyles as fundamental to healthcare delivery.

Inaugural Year: 2010

Chair:
Theresa Beckie, PhD, MN, RN, FAHA, FAAN
Associate Dean and Professor, College of Nursing
University of South Florida College of Nursing

Board Liaison: Nelda Godfrey

Staff Liaison: Sonya Desai

Previous Chairs: Sharon Tucker (2019-2020), Marjorie McCullagh (2018-2019), Liana Orsolini (2017-2018), Shannon Zenk (2016-2017), Judith Payne (2015-2016)

Publications/Resources: 

• Policy Brief: Nurse fatigue, sleep, and health, and ensuring patient and public safety (September-October 2019)
• Policy Brief: An effective human papillomavirus vaccination policy will reduce infection- and malignancy-related morbidity and mortality (May-June 2018) 
• Policy Brief: Assessing and addressing cardiovascular risk in young women (May-June 2018) 
• Position Statement: Reducing fatigue associated with sleep deficiency and work hours in nurses (November-December 2017) 
• Policy Brief: Reduce noise: Improve the nation’s health (September-October 2017) 
• Academy Designates Baldwin, Cisneros & Ornelas as Edge Runners for Spanish Language Sleep Program (January 23, 2018)
• Position Statement: Reducing fatigue associated with sleep deficiency and work hours in nurses. (November 2017) 
• Policy Brief: Reduce noise: Improve the nation's health. Nursing Outlook 65 (September 2017) 652-656. 
• Press Release: Academy Releases Position Statement on Environmental Noise Reduction (September 7, 2016)  
• Policy Brief: Position statement: Harmful effects of environmental noise exposures​. Nursing Outlook 64 (July 2016) 395–396.
• Policy Brief: Call to action: Nursing action necessary to prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017​. Nursing Outlook 64 (March 2016) 197–199.
• Policy Brief: Nursing scholarship and leadership in tobacco control​. Nursing Outlook 61 (May 2013) 181-182.
• Policy Brief: Resolution: Smoke-free campus policies for schools of nursing and college campuses​. Nursing Outlook 61 (May 2013) 183.
• Policy Brief: Making a difference: Nursing scholarship and leadership in tobacco control​. Nursing Outlook 61 (January 2013) 31-42.

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