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• Dr. Elizabeth D. Carlson, PhD, MPH, APRN-BC, is a graduate of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing (PhD) and School of Public Health (MPH). She is certified as an Advanced Practice Gerontological Nurse Practiti...More

  Dr. Elizabeth D. Carlson, PhD, MPH, APRN-BC, is a graduate of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing (PhD) and School of Public Health (MPH). She is certified as an Advanced Practice Gerontological Nurse Practitioner and a Public Health Clinical Nurse Specialist. After finishing a three year postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, she left Texas and moved with her husband to Springfield, Illinois, USA. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Mennonite College of Nursing, Illinois State University where she teaches research methods and professional roles and issues at the graduate level. Her research interests have focused on understanding the social and cultural mechanisms that create health disparities across the continuum of cancer prevention. This has focused her program of research on understanding what social capital is and how it can be leveraged for mutually beneficial collective action and the improvement of population health outcomes. Less

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