Teaching: Dr. Kneipp teaches community/public health nursing in the undergraduate nursing program, philosophy of nursing science in the doctoral program, and an elective, interdisciplinary course on social and economic disparities in health at the graduate level.
Research: Dr. Kneipp’s research concentrates on health disparities in disadvantaged or vulnerable populations, with a focus on women. This work is guided by an ecological model, which emphasizes environmental determinants of health (social, economic, political), and how these factors contribute to health disparities in women disadvantaged by socioeconomic status. Some of the ways health disparities are currently being investigated scientifically include how disparities may be exacerbated or alleviated thru welfare, social, and/or health policy, the use of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approaches to disparities research, and the pre-disease physiological mechanisms that may be contributing to disparities through chronic stress processes. Dr. Kneipp is currently completing an NIH funded randomized trial to evaluate the effect of a public health nursing intervention on the health of disadvantaged women in a Welfare Transition Program.
Service: Dr. Kneipp holds membership in the American Public Health Association (Public Health Nursing Section), the Florida Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the Southern Nursing Research Society, and the Institute for Women’s Research & Policy. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board for Nursing Research, is a regular reviewer for several other research journals., and serves as a scientific reviewer for the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review (NIH CSR).
Clinical practice area:Dr. Kneipp has clinical expertise in Community/Public Health Nursing, Adult Health (nurse practitioner), and holds certification as an Advanced Practice Nurse. She works with disadvantaged populations and communities.
Education: Dr. Kneipp received her BSN in Nursing and her MS in Community Health/Adult Primary at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Nursing Science, specializing in Women’s Health and Public Policy at the University of Washington.
Selected Publications:
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Kneipp, S.M., Lutz, B.J. & Means, D.M. (in press). Reasons for Enrollment, the Informed Consent Process, and Trust Among Low-Income Women Participating in a Community-Based Participatory Research Study. Public Health Nursing.
Lutz, B. J., Kneipp, S.M., & Means, D.M. (2009). Developing a health screening questionnaire for women in Welfare Transition Programs in the United States. Qualitative Health Research. 19(1): 105-15.
Fahrenwald, N., Taylor, J. Y., Kneipp, S. M., & Canales, M. K. (2007). Academic freedom and duty to teach social justice: A perspective and pedagogy for public health nursing faculty. Public Health Nursing, 24(2), 190-197.
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Kneipp, S., Canales, M., Taylor, J., & Fahrenwald, N. (2007). Academic Freedom: Protecting 'Liberal Science' in Nursing in the 21st Century. Advances in Nursing Science, 30(1), 3-13.
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Kneipp, S., Welch, D., Wood, C., Yucha, C., & Yarandi, H. (2007). Psychosocial stress, physiological indicators of stress, and health in women leaving TANF. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 29(7): 864-83; Discussion 884-95.
Welch, D., & Kneipp, S. (2005). Low-income housing policy and soceioeconomic inequalities in women’s health: The importance of nursing inquiry and intervention. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 6(4): 73-83. |
Kneipp, S. & Drevdahl, D. (2003). Problems with Parsimony in Research on the Socioeconomic Determinants of Health. Advances in Nursing Science, 26(3), 162-172. (abstract)
Drevdahl, D., Kneipp, S., Canales, M., & Dorcy, K. (2001). Reinvesting in social justice: A capital idea for public health nursing? Advances in Nursing Science, 24(2), 19-31.(abstract)
Kneipp, S . & McIntosh, M. (2001). Handling Missing Data in Nursing Research with Multiple Imputation. Nursing Research, 50(6), 384-389. (abstract)
Kneipp, S. (2000). The health of women in transition from welfare to employment. The Western Journal of Nursing Research, 22(6), 656-682. (abstract)
