Editorial Board
Jennifer Cunningham-Erves Dr
Meharry Medical College · United States
Editorial leadership for International Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases ISSN 2994-6743
Research interests
- Health Disparities
- Community Engagement
- Hpv Vaccination
- Hpv
Biography
- Dr. Jennifer Cunningham Erves is a Research Instructor for Meharry Medical College of Nashville, Tennessee.
- Her academic background is in Biology and Health Education and Health Promotion, with her main research interest being to improve HPV vaccination rates among adolescents and to identify potential patient/community-engaged research methods to improve rates.
- Educated at Tuskegee University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Erves has been at Meharry College since 2013, first as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Community Engagement and now as a Research Instructor.
- Her recent awards include being selected as a V-Pocket (Vanderbilt Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Career Knowledge, Education and Training) Scholar of Vanderbilt University, and a LEADS (Leading Emerging and Diverse Scientists to Success) Fellow for the University of Pittsburgh.
- She has served as a reviewer for the journals Trials, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and Health Education Research.
- Dr. Erves is a researcher in the field of public health oncology focused on cancer prevention behaviors.
- Her work merges her long-standing interests in the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), HPV vaccine use, clinical research, community/patient engagement, minority health, and HPV-related cancer disparities.
- Her current concentration is using community/patient-engaged approaches to both gain an understanding of factors influencing HPV vaccination rates among African American (AA) adolescents, and design tailored, behavioral interventions to improve their vaccination rates.
Selected publications
- Engagement of community stakeholders to develop a framework to guide research dissemination to communities 2020 cited 37×
- Providers’ Perceptions of Parental Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Hesitancy: Cross-Sectional Study 2019 cited 30×
- A pilot study of a culturally-appropriate, educational intervention to increase participation in cancer clinical trials among African Americans and Latinos 2021 cited 19×
- Use of Community Listening Sessions to Disseminate Research Findings to Past Participants and Communities 2021 cited 15×
- Development of strategies for community engaged research dissemination by basic scientists: a case study 2023 cited 12×
- Development of a Theory-Based, Culturally Appropriate Message Library for Use in Interventions to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination Among African Americans: Formative Research 2022 cited 10×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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